Antique Brown & Sharpe Grinder

Hey Bob,

Gee, from your description, it could be a "Blanchard" type. Is the spindle vertical? And with no adjustments, it may have been used to smooth castings. I've seen something like that in a foundry where they make fire hydrant valves. It had two bars as "stops". The raw castings were put in one section, they came to rest against the "first" stop bar, they were ground away on until they fit under the bar and passed into the next section where they were flipped over and ground away again until they fit under that bar and then taken out as they came around. If the operator missed one, it just went on through again, but of course nothing was ground any more as it passes under both bars.

Take care.

Brian Laws>Saw an Antique Brown & Sharpe grinder today. Single large wheel was

You describe it well except the spindle is horizontal.

Thanks Bob AZ

If this is a single wheel mounted vertically on a sawhorse like frame it sounds like what every farm was equipped with years ago. Initially driven with a crank or treadle and used to sharpen scythes, sickles, mowing machine cutter bars and all the other cutting implements used on the farm. See :

Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:remove underscores from address for reply)

The water trough was normally half a tire Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Usually after the original rusted out because the kids left water in the trough, and the bottom of the wheel got soft, and the kids got thumped for using the grinder without telling anybody :-)

Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:remove underscores from address for reply)