Picked this one out of the pile on a scrapyard run a couple years back and it set me back a whopping 18 bucks!  It looks very much like the day I brought it home except for an updated cord, a sanding belt, and of course, that beautiful red skateboard wheel idler which works well enough but doesn’t match the rest of he machine too well.  This is an earlier cast frame model and based on the information I can find, was likely built between 1941 and sometime in the min fifties.  I like the styling and simplicity of this one and plan to give it new bearings and paint when time permits.  It is reasonably functional in its current state of semi-repair and I have been giving it a little use of recent.  I will need to figure a good way to add some dust collection when I get into this project as well.  Mead built these little sanders for quite some time, first With cast frames, and later with the more modern steel frames seen in newer Deltas and such.  I believe, like so many others, Mead was in business until 1987.  Sadly, they are gone now.  The catalog page I included dates to 1954. 

Edited December 23, 20196 yr by Bundoman

Nice Score! 

I'm sure you probably found the manual, but in case not.

http://www.vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=2169

Very cool find, be sure to post up more pics if/when you have it refurb'd.

1 hour ago, Cal said:

Very cool find, be sure to post up more pics if/when you have it refurb'd.

Hoping summer of 2020 will allow me some time to freshen this thing up a little.  Time will tell.

 

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Nice Score! 

I'm sure you probably found the manual, but in case not.

http://www.vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=2169

Thank you.

2 hours ago, Bundoman said:

Hoping summer of 2020 will allow me some time to freshen this thing up a little.  Time will tell.

 

...I've got a few machines that have been in the  well  uhh.. freshen up stage for awhile!!

2 hours ago, Bundoman said:

Thank you.

You're welcome. 

I keep at least a couple rough machines around all the time as well...not by choice...but...more like...well...I just do!  Why try to justify it!😜

5 minutes ago, Bundoman said:

I keep at least a couple rough machines around all the time as well...not by choice...

Translated and understood as...

Yea I've got 3 of them but between the 3 I don't yet have enough parts to totally put together 1 machine.

14 minutes ago, Bundoman said:

but...more like...well...I just do

Hope that when I find another one it'll have those couple of missing parts!!

22 minutes ago, Bundoman said:

 Why try to justify it!😜

Don't need to. 

As you can probably tell I totally understand.