Photo Index - Syracuse Sander Manufacturing Co. - S-1 Oscillating Spindle Sander

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Syracuse Sander Manufacturing Co.
Syracuse, NY

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Sander
Machine Size:
Submitted By:	andy b

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	S-1 Oscillating Spindle Sander
Date of Manufacturer:	est. 1920s
Serial Number:	(View SN Registry Entry)
Last Updated	11/19/2005 12:00:00 AM

Comments:

Every machine has a story...
My brother saw an ad in the local paper for someone selling some OWWM. We called and the woman said her husband had recently died and she was selling things off (why do 90% of OWWM stories start like this???). I headed out and she was showing me what was in the shop. The first thing that caught my eye was a large Syracuse disc sander (probably a 15" D-1). There were some handtools I asked about, and then I asked about the disc sander. She pointed to a 8" one in the local home improvment store weekly sale flier for $70 and said her son told her to charge about what a new one would cost for any machine someone asked about. Being my usual stupid self, I told her there was no way that disc sander was worth $70 and she should talk to her son because it was worth way more than that. I looked at a few other things and then told her I'd call during the week to see what prices her son had decided upon for the items I asked about.

Well I called back a few days later and she said several items had already been sold and if I wanted anything to come for it soon. So I asked my parents to stop out, and I told them "I really want the disc sander. It is a big sander with about a 15-20" disc on it and it's in the corner." Well my parents ran out the next day and my mom called all happy that she had gotten me a vise and the disc sander for $70, but another sander had already been sold. The next day I stopped over my parents' and saw the vise (a nice patternmaker's model) and the spindle sander. I told my mom it wasn't a disc sander, but to her it had a 19" round table on it and it sanded, so it was a disc sander. It turned out the lady had sold the real disc sander to the next guy that stopped out. Yes, for $70 (arrggghhhh!!!). Anyway, he didn't take the spindle sander because it didn't oscillate up and down. Well my first thought was, "what good is an OSS if the OS doesn't work?" I couldn't believe there was much to the mechanism that oscillated, so I pulled the side cover off and dug around in the thick 80-year-old grease. There in all her shiny beauty was the bolt that held the lift arm to the spindle. The machine now works as good as the day it left the factory!

Photo 1:

Comments: picture of sander
Source: my garage after I cleaned up the lift mechanism

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Photo 2:

Comments: the gear that does the lifting
Source: my garage

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Photo 3:

Comments: the table tilting mechanism
Source: my garage

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