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Manufactured/Badged by:
Rankin Brothers Manufacturing Inc.
Lynwood, CA

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Sander
Machine Size:	20”
Submitted By:	Reuben Deumling

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Apex Disk Grinder 20-DR
Date of Manufacturer:	likely prior to 1954
Serial Number:	153
Last Updated	9/5/2020 9:39:05 PM

Comments:

I have long wished for a larger disc sander, and to have found not only a West Coast one, but a hitherto unknown (presumably earlier) iteration of the Rankin Brothers’ business was irresistible. The name cast around the round base on this sander is *Rankin Bros. Precision Machine & Tool Wks., Lynwood, Calif.* Which is similar but different from the *Rankin Bros. Manufacturing Inc.* listed here. The sander comes to me lacking the brackets for attaching the “wrap-over guard” to the motor as a previous owner replaced that motor and seems to have thrown away or lost the brackets in the process, but sporting a rather impressive 3hp Baldor motor, rather more hp than would have been originally spec’d on these: 1-1/2 or 2hp for the 20” model and 3/4, 1, 1-1/2 or 2hp for the 16” model. It appears rather complete and not mistreated.

Photo 1:

Comments: full view of machine, note the round base
Source: seller’s photo for now

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Photo 2:

Comments: table elevation and tilt, base, new motor
Source: seller’s photo

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Photo 3:

Comments: wrap-over guard, minus brackets
Source: seller’s photo

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Photo 4:

Comments: brochure page showing the successor model to mine
Source: Courtesy of Barbo Machinery in Portland, Oregon

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Comments: Badge
Source: own photo

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