Posted by Buzzman72 on July 07, 2011 at 07:51:52 from (74.129.195.67):
At the garage, my grand-dad had a knife grinder for sickle mower knives...it had a spindle with a V-shaped stone, a foot-operated clamp for the knife, and the spindle with the stone was belt driven by an electric motor. The spindle was spring-mounted with a handle, so you could manually control the pressure of the stone agains the knife. The whole apparatus was about 4 feet long, the frame made of angle iron, and it worked best if you could sit on a shop stool...although operating it in a standing position was also possible.
Would this have any value today, other than scrap value? I mean, in an era of disc mowers and such, it's more of a curiosity piece.
Grand-dad also had a lever fixture that fit in a vise, and allowed you to compress the rivets in a a mower knife section two at a time. It was about a 2-man operation,since one had to hold the knife while the other operated the lever, but when two were involved it was a lot quicker than hammering the rivets with the old floor fixture and a concave punch.
Any value to that one? Or would they be of value if perhaps sold as a set?
Or do I just have some genuine antique scrap iron here?
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