I did this faceplate build a while back , I don't think I ever posted it on this forum , I did post on a couple of others though.
It started of with me spotting this old Sparrow sanding disc ? if that's its correct name , on ebay . It didn't sell with a price of $50 from memory, but I made contact with the seller and was happy with what I saw when I went and looked at it ,To his surprise I offered him $70 and made a friend :) . He was a giant of a Biker type bloke who had a whole yard of collected gear of all sorts . He showed me around the rest of his collection and it was interesting stuff .
I took the Sparrow back to work and it was not about to spin , I gave the Babbit bearings a clean up and when it did turn I found I had a good 1/2 inch wobble in the disk . I'm thinking DAM and I gave him an extra $ 20 :D lol .
I reckon at some stage someone threw it out as rubbish of the back of a truck and it bent the shaft just behind the cast disc.It had a broken foot as well.
I have a friendly engineer who I gave it to and he turned and fitted a new shaft for it , the bearings were scraped and with a squirt of grease now and then she goes well.
Rob
It started of with me spotting this old Sparrow sanding disc ? if that's its correct name , on ebay . It didn't sell with a price of $50 from memory, but I made contact with the seller and was happy with what I saw when I went and looked at it ,To his surprise I offered him $70 and made a friend :) . He was a giant of a Biker type bloke who had a whole yard of collected gear of all sorts . He showed me around the rest of his collection and it was interesting stuff .
I took the Sparrow back to work and it was not about to spin , I gave the Babbit bearings a clean up and when it did turn I found I had a good 1/2 inch wobble in the disk . I'm thinking DAM and I gave him an extra $ 20 :D lol .
I reckon at some stage someone threw it out as rubbish of the back of a truck and it bent the shaft just behind the cast disc.It had a broken foot as well.
I have a friendly engineer who I gave it to and he turned and fitted a new shaft for it , the bearings were scraped and with a squirt of grease now and then she goes well.
Rob
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