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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.
