What do you call a bench grinder fixture without the inline motor?

Antique Grinder?

Gunner

Rule #35 "That which does not kill you, has made a huge tactical error"

That may be as good as anything. We'll see what else people come up with.

Antique???? That is no antique! I have one in my shop that gets a lot of use. Have a wire wheel on the left and a flap wheel on the right. Driven by a 1/3 hp motor, if I remember correctly. I built a moveable stand from an old swivel chair and have the motor below the "antique grinder". Belt goes through a notch in the table.

In fact it is the only stationary wire brush/sander in the shop.

Why not put is to use rather than sell it?

Paul

Yea it probably is an antique. I don't think you can buy these anymore. The liability lawyers wouldn't allow it.

I used to use it as my only bench grinder. Now I have two normal "electrified ones", one I got when Dad passed on and a bigger one from a garage sale for $5. I just don't need this one anylonger, nor do I have the room for it. I'm cleaning stuff out that I haven't used in 5 years.

Lane

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The one I inherited says "Montgomery Ward" on one line on the decal and "Grinding Arbor" on the next. My grandfather used an old washing machine motor in combination with a wheeled sign frame from his gas station to mount it. It replaced his old hand-crank grinder out in the garage. Uses 6" wheels and has very cheesy guards and tool rests on it. It worked well enough to sharpen lawnmower blades, anyway. This one is a deluxe version, has ball bearings.

Stan

Thanks. Mine doesn't have any label or other identifying marks at all.

I've usually heard them called a "grinding arbor" or "buffing arbor", or sometimes just "arbor". If you're really lucky, you can even find them with a chuck on one end, I assume for use with small grinding points and carbide burrs. Since eBay seems driven by search words more than actual descriptions, how about "belt driven bench grinder buffer wire wheel arbor"?

And no, I don't need one, I've got a couple of "Millers Falls" ones I need to mount one of these days...

--Glenn Lyford

As I recall (it was long time back) "Grinding Arbor" or "Polishing Arbor" defined the basic stand with shaft, pulley, and bearings. Such was used for open wheel grinding, wire brushes, and buffing wheels. Most had no guards at all.

When you added the wheel guards and grinding tool rests, you had a "Bench Grinder".

I doubt the nomenclature was highly standardized.

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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:54:11 -0700, the inscrutable "Lane" spake:

Lee Valley calls them "double-ended mandrels."

have a similar beast I'll turn into a horizontal mortiser some day. (Paid $2 for it at an Old Iron auction in Sandy Eggo.)

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agree, "arbor" is the proper technical term look it up if you don't agree

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show "Lane" wrote back on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:54:11 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking :

If it is an antique, call it that "Antique Bench Grinder"

Otherwise, "belt driven bench grinder."

Top posted to keep things interesting:

I bought one from Graingers last year (#6L099). They still list them in the catalog, but they are called Ball Bearing Mandrels. I call them Bench Arbors. I do wish the shaft was a little longer than 12", but it works just fine, driven by a (real) 3/4 HP motor.

Joe

Lane wrote: