Is this really A DeWalt grinder?

[Gator-J]

Hi all,

I picked this up last week and can't find any info on it at all.

From what I can figure out a DW830 is an angle grinder, which this is not.
Is this really a DeWalt? Any idea on year/model number?

Thanks

 

[cmandp]

Dewalt wasn't always the yellow plastic junk that's made now. They used to make stuff like this (and radial arm saws lots of them).

 

[Daedalus]

^Yep, though I do use my "yellow plastic junk" quite a bit and I do swear by them now that lithium batteries are available. Nice looking piece. Doesn't look quite old enough, but I wonder if that's from before 1960 when B&D bought the company and the name. Interesting the label says PENNA instead of PA like all the others I've seen. Looks like a solid keeper.

 

[WWIIjeep]

Yes, it's really a DeWalt grinder. 1960s vintage.

Adding to what cmandp said, it was made by the real and original DeWalt company that was famous for making radial arm saws, not the DeWalt company name Stanley Black & Decker Corp. now applies to yellow tools.

The model 830 grinder was intended to be powered by a DeWalt "Power Shop" radial arm saw via belt and pulley attached to the saw arbor. It's one of the rarer of the many attachments DeWalt offered for the "Power Shop" radial arm saw.

 

[Gator-J]

Yes, it's really a DeWalt grinder. 1960s vintage.

Adding to what cmandp said, it was made by the real and original DeWalt company that was famous for making radial arm saws, not the DeWalt company name Stanley Black & Decker Corp. now applies to yellow tools.

The model 830 grinder was intended to be powered by a DeWalt "Power Shop" radial arm saw via belt and pulley attached to the saw arbor. It's one of the rarer of the many attachments DeWalt offered for the "Power Shop" radial arm saw.

Ahhh, that makes sense why I can not find anything on it specifically. It came with a 1/2 horse motor, so that is what is going to run it now.

 

[cmandp]

^Yep, though I do use my "yellow plastic junk" quite a bit and I do swear by them now that lithium batteries are available. Nice looking piece. Doesn't look quite old enough, but I wonder if that's from before 1960 when B&D bought the company and the name. Interesting the label says PENNA instead of PA like all the others I've seen. Looks like a solid keeper.

I did not mean to offend with the "yellow plastic junk" comment. Most every power tool today is made of plastic and works just fine (certainly lighter and easier to use). The construction of old power tools is just much heavier and uses more metal. Although personally I like Milwaukee "red plastic junk" .