Was gifted this old tool... anyone know what it is???

[magnumwheelman]

obviously a grinder... not sure what the cone shaped stone was intended for, & if there are any of the clamp / tooling still available... there is some there, not sure what it all came with originally... the stones are all there, & pretty fine... pictures following

Motor works, not positive on the coolant pump???

[bula]

No idea..sure you know to move fuel containers away from spark source if ya turn it on and try it. Don't want to see you on that kinds youtube video !

[magnumwheelman]

yep, good point... it, & the cans are put away for the winter... that is my unheated my lawn mower storage shed... I didn't want to try out the coolant pump, just to have it freeze

[bula]

I realized i've a propane cylinder under my bench grinder. Rarely use but it needs to be moved. Sooo..WAG..rig to sharpen serrated sickle bars ? If there is such a thing. Maybe there is now. LOL.

[magnumwheelman]

was gifted to me from someone who thought it too good to scrap... it's probably 500 lbs. or more in weight of the cast iron

[junebug]

Just a swag but wood turning tools. The fine stones and the adjustable clamp for chisels and skews the cone for roughing gouges? Very nice setup.

[magnumwheelman]

I thought maybe for rounded wood chisels... maybe came out of a school shop or???

[crobloc]

Magnumwheelman I think it might be a tool for grinding and polishing and shaping stones. I saw a news story one time about

people that used petoskey stones to make jewelery and also polished and shaped for decorations. The machine they showed looked

very similar. Theres also had the coolant setup

[x101airborne]

With the way the clamp is parallel to the face of the two lower stones it almost looks like it is meant to hold something with a straight edge. Does that side clamp slide back and forth quite a ways?

[jack]

We had a machine very similar to that for cutting, grinding, sparpening "knives" for the heads on a commercial molding machine. The machine produced, base mold, door case, etc. Each different cutting head had 1-4 "knives of a given profile, and profiles were only limited by imagination!

[pete]

Junebug nailed it, it's a grinder for sharpening wood chisels and the tapered stone is for gouges. The clamp/vice thing holds chisels at the proper angle, and the boxes behind the stones hold water. We had one like it at work for a while. Nice score!

[magnumwheelman]

With the way the clamp is parallel to the face of the two lower stones it almost looks like it is meant to hold something with a straight edge. Does that side clamp slide back and forth quite a ways?

The front brace bar has knobs to adjust... they are pretty stiff , but I can for sure change the angle... not sure how much I can change the distance from the wheel... wondering if there were more or different clamps that attached to that bar