Photo Index - Porter-Cable Machine Co. - Model B-3 Belt Sander

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Porter-Cable Machine Co.
Syracuse, NY and Jackson, TN

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Sander
Machine Size:	10" x 70.5"
Submitted By:	Dave Potts

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Model B-3 Belt Sander
Date of Manufacturer:	1940's, the War Years
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Last Updated	1/30/2003 12:00:00 AM

Comments:

Originally built by the Syracuse Sander Co. in the 1920's, this machine has been produced under a variety of names besides Porter-Cable. Engelberg, Sundstrand, and Acme all built the machine with few changes up through the 1960's.

This machine was found in Trenton, NJ in a brownfield-area machine shop. I had purchased a bandsaw from this same shop several years earlier, and this random stop proved to be just as fruitful. It also turns out that the shop foreman was a neighbor of mine that I had never met.

The original 3-phase motor was replaced with a 1-horse single phase motor using a lovejoy connector. Belts are ordered through Industrial Abrasives in Reading, PA and last a long time. The sander can be raised to be in a vertical position and came with a sturdy tilting table, much like a 6x48 sander today would have. I have not been able to locate a table yet..... I did see one at an auction recently, but later found the sander it had become separated from.

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Comments: Porter Cable, Syracuse, NY
Source: In my shop

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Source: In my shop

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Comments: The tags indicate the sander was built during WW II
Source: In my shop

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