Hi all,
Just thought I would post my latest acquisition. This is a LS Barker 18” Double Disc Sander. It has a 3HP 1400RPM motor.
I guess my biggest question that arises with this machine is did LS Barker make metalworking machines. Based on the two cut outs I have found (see below), these were metalwork machines (and the small tables suggest this as well), perhaps my memory is failing me, but I don’t recall seeing another LS Barker machine that was a metalworking machine. These are some pictures, of the machine (I apologise for some of the quality issues, but I took these at the site before loading them, and used my phone, with poor lighting).
Asset Number?(perhaps an ex government machine??)
Badge:
Loaded
I suspect based on the badge design in the cast that this is an earlier LS Barker machine. I have a few McPhersons catalogues, and have so far seen 2 similar machines in 1937:
And 1949:
But I can’t find an LS Barker. I am wondering if this LS Barker is an earlier or later machine. This Barker shares the characteristic of only having one counter weight (like the one in the 1937 catalogue), at first I thought it was missing one, but there is no hole in the cast on the other side for another rod to go. Unlike these two in the catalogue, this one has 18” discs (the ones in the catalogue are only 16”).
I have spent some time looking up the specs for other woodworking disc sanders to check the speed of the motor would suit woodworking, and it certainly seems to match other machines with similar disc diameters. I am wondering, perhaps is this machine earlier and introduced by LS Barker as a woodworking machine, and later taken up as a metalworking machine and the discs reduced to 16” (the small table is the only thing that is throwing me with this theory)? Alternatively, did this machine get introduced as a metalworking machine, and LS Barker decided to increase the disc size and sell it for woodworking, or did LS Barker at one point sell woodworking and metalworking machines??
Anyone care to speculate, or better still, post an add showing this LS Barker machine? Has anyone else seen an LS Barker badged metalworking machine?
Cheers,
Camo
Just thought I would post my latest acquisition. This is a LS Barker 18” Double Disc Sander. It has a 3HP 1400RPM motor.
I guess my biggest question that arises with this machine is did LS Barker make metalworking machines. Based on the two cut outs I have found (see below), these were metalwork machines (and the small tables suggest this as well), perhaps my memory is failing me, but I don’t recall seeing another LS Barker machine that was a metalworking machine. These are some pictures, of the machine (I apologise for some of the quality issues, but I took these at the site before loading them, and used my phone, with poor lighting).
Asset Number?(perhaps an ex government machine??)
Badge:
Loaded
I suspect based on the badge design in the cast that this is an earlier LS Barker machine. I have a few McPhersons catalogues, and have so far seen 2 similar machines in 1937:
And 1949:
But I can’t find an LS Barker. I am wondering if this LS Barker is an earlier or later machine. This Barker shares the characteristic of only having one counter weight (like the one in the 1937 catalogue), at first I thought it was missing one, but there is no hole in the cast on the other side for another rod to go. Unlike these two in the catalogue, this one has 18” discs (the ones in the catalogue are only 16”).
I have spent some time looking up the specs for other woodworking disc sanders to check the speed of the motor would suit woodworking, and it certainly seems to match other machines with similar disc diameters. I am wondering, perhaps is this machine earlier and introduced by LS Barker as a woodworking machine, and later taken up as a metalworking machine and the discs reduced to 16” (the small table is the only thing that is throwing me with this theory)? Alternatively, did this machine get introduced as a metalworking machine, and LS Barker decided to increase the disc size and sell it for woodworking, or did LS Barker at one point sell woodworking and metalworking machines??
Anyone care to speculate, or better still, post an add showing this LS Barker machine? Has anyone else seen an LS Barker badged metalworking machine?
Cheers,
Camo
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