I've been restoring a 1940's-50's dry egg cleaner that I inherited from my grandparents. It probably hadn't been turned on since I was a kid, 40 years ago. Anyway, the manufacturer and patent number are on it...so, I have that info but that's about it. I haven't been able to find another one on the internet or even another dry egg cleaner from a different company. Literally, I can't find anything other than old literature that just talks about dry egg cleaning machines.
Have any of you ever come across a dry egg cleaning machine? I'm still in the process of restoring this one. I just tested out a new "egg cradle" this week but I need to get lighter grit sanding belts. The patent mentioned 80 grit but it's way too aggressive and the egg can't be pushed far enough back against the strips to clean the ends of the egg without taking away a lot of shell. I am still working this part out to get it to operate as it did originally. The machine had a lot of cast aluminum parts that got brittle and broke over the years, so I have had to make new ones. Fortunately, I had at least one of everything that wasn't broken to use as a basis to fabricate replacement parts.
Any info would be highly appreciated!!
Here are a couple pics of how it started and where it's at now. The egg sits in a cradle that spins the egg and swivels back and forth against the sanding strips. Right now, I just have one cradle on the machine. It will have 8 of them once I work out some last details.
Have any of you ever come across a dry egg cleaning machine? I'm still in the process of restoring this one. I just tested out a new "egg cradle" this week but I need to get lighter grit sanding belts. The patent mentioned 80 grit but it's way too aggressive and the egg can't be pushed far enough back against the strips to clean the ends of the egg without taking away a lot of shell. I am still working this part out to get it to operate as it did originally. The machine had a lot of cast aluminum parts that got brittle and broke over the years, so I have had to make new ones. Fortunately, I had at least one of everything that wasn't broken to use as a basis to fabricate replacement parts.
Any info would be highly appreciated!!
Here are a couple pics of how it started and where it's at now. The egg sits in a cradle that spins the egg and swivels back and forth against the sanding strips. Right now, I just have one cradle on the machine. It will have 8 of them once I work out some last details.
