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Matt Day
08-09-2021, 4:07 PM
Picked this up at an auction a few weeks ago. Seems to have a rubber coating, 14” wide roller, 21 3/8” overall length, and about 4” diameter.

any ideas? It didn’t belong to any of the machines that were there.
Erik Loza
08-10-2021, 9:15 AM
That's too fat to be a planer roller. Drum sander?

Erik
Jeff Roltgen
08-10-2021, 9:33 AM
My WAG: With that type of gum-rubber and the wear pattern, looks like an idler roller from an edge or stroke sander. Check residue on it- probably graphite from platen pad.
Matt Day
08-10-2021, 10:24 AM
My WAG: With that type of gum-rubber and the wear pattern, looks like an idler roller from an edge or stroke sander. Check residue on it- probably graphite from platen pad.

Indeed Jeff, there is some metallic sheen on it which I wasn’t sure about. An idler makes sense. Maybe I’ll post it over on 0WWM and see what they think.
Bill Dufour
08-10-2021, 10:27 AM
Printing press?
Bill D
Stewart Lang
08-10-2021, 11:44 AM
The real question is why did you even bother to pick that up at an auction :D
Matt Day
08-10-2021, 12:11 PM
The real question is why did you even bother to pick that up at an auction :D

It came with two other heads which I sold for a profit of $300.
Warren Lake
08-10-2021, 12:16 PM
I think its a rolling pin for making pizza
Stewart Lang
08-10-2021, 3:59 PM
It came with two other heads which I sold for a profit of $300.

Well there you go! Nice profit on the whole deal there :D