What is it?

[MushCreek]

Saw this listed on Marketplace as a grinder. Doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before. Some kind of motor-driven drum with an overhead attachment that runs on it? It's all cast, so I assume it's factory made.

 

[RTM]

Something like that showed up on our FBMP, but it was a 6x48 belt sander converted to a drum sander. That skinny wheel on top looks too narrow for that, but the intermediate roller might be. Maybe give you some thoughts.

But you need it, if just for the base and starter controls.

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[The Cobbler]

But you need it, if just for the base and starter controls.

I like the base.

 

[The Cobbler]

Actually @RTM may be on to something. that roller looks like it might be a counterweight on an arm that has been flipped over to the front instead of laying back

 

[larry_g]

Looks to be a belt grinder. The small 'roller' resting on the big wheel looks to be a counter weight to me that will move in and out to adjust the tension on the belt. The top roller may pivot near 180* so the weight hangs out the back?

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[lardy1]

There's a bare spindle that makes me think there was a pulley of some sort and the arm is a tensioning weight. My gut says belt sander.

 

[Snip's]

Looking at he size of that drive drum on the motor... I bet that belt flys...

 

[PCustoms]

Saw this listed on Marketplace as a grinder. Doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before. Some kind of motor-driven drum with an overhead attachment that runs on it? It's all cast, so I assume it's factory made.

 

[rlitman]

Factory belt grinders have enormously long belts. This certainly could be the driver with a tensioner to keep the belt from bouncing on the drive wheel.

 

[1Bad55Chevy]

Plain and simple, its junk......

 

[bonneyman]

Plain and simple, its junk......

Yeah, but one man's junk is another man's treasure.

Whatever you do, don't let the wife see it. That thing looks like it could do some serious damage as a husband alignment tool!

 

[MushCreek]

Now I see the upper roller. The smaller roller/counterweight threw me. Still, without any kind of table or backstop it's fairly useless. The seller found it in a barn; I wonder if the other parts are laying around? No price given; best offer.

 

[1Bad55Chevy]

The base would be cool to have as a grinder stand. If it wasn't tilted I would have said a vise stand.