OLD Flat Belt grinder whatch-callit thingy?

[wrenchguy]

Anyone know what this might have been part of? Neat grease cup caps I hadn't seen before. Not sure its even oriented correctly.

 

[Packard V8]

Appears to be a flat-belt grinder arbor. I've only seen later v-belt versions.

jack vines

 

[wrenchguy]

It's been suggested on another site that its orientation is correct as shown in the first photo but bolted to a vertical post of some type. It's not for a bench because of the curved reinforcement bulge of the casting along its bottom. Plus there's no babbitt indicating bearing caps, your not suppose to grease babbitt or bronze. The part about it just bolted to a post with lineshaft flat belt driving it strikes me odd. I ain't never seen one... Neither has google. These are sellers photos, I don't have it in hand.

 

[The Cobbler]

I... Plus there's no babbitt indicating bearing caps, your not suppose to grease babbitt or bronze. .....

babbit is supposed to be oiled with lite oil, those grease cups could have been added ?

 

[Farmer J.]

I wonder if... Maybe originally it didn't have the grinding wheel at all and was just an intermediate pulley or tensioner on a line shaft flat belt drive system? Then someone turned down the end of the shaft and made it in to a mount for a grinding wheel?
The casting looks like the sort of thing from the side of an old wooden threshing machine, or some other similar machine from that era.

 

[wrenchguy]

"those grease cups could have been added ?"
Yes, or there's roller bearings in there.

"Maybe originally it didn't have the grinding wheel at all"
Maybe not, but like Packard mentions its a arbor... A HD one at that.

Thanks.

edit, just talked to seller, her grandfather had it mounted to the wood post shown in the first 2 photos with it resting on the concrete ledge.