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What Is It? for 9/16/12

Posted September 16, 2012 12:01 AM by Mizuti

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09/16/2012 12:46 AM

Grinder!
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09/16/2012 11:33 AM

It looks like some sort of grinder for metal edged tools; maybe plane blades. The back appears to have a knife grinding jig that allows a metal blade to slide along a track between two grinding wheels of fifferent grits. The wheel in front appears to be for honing; no idea what the cone is for. The disk on the left appears to be a sanding disk used to flatten a steel tool before grinding an edge. By the looks of it, it might be found in a shop that does sharpening; not a production machine or a home DIY machine. My guess is based on my limited knowledge of sharpening and grinding equipment.

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09/16/2012 3:31 PM

Three ways to get the shaft.

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09/17/2012 7:11 AM

Cone on a grinder for working the inside of castings.

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09/17/2012 9:53 AM

Homemade lapidary machine.

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09/17/2012 9:30 PM

NSFW?

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09/19/2012 5:11 AM

Rotary Sphincter Recalibrator & Hone for those really tough jobs?
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09/19/2012 6:31 PM

It's a shaping plug for making spun metal funnels.
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04/16/2025 3:00 AM

So that's where it has gone. No wonder it couldn't be found here.

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