Sturdee
28th September 2013, 10:54 PM
In another post I mentioned that I had made a number of long handled sanding/polishing tools, based on the idea of the Ultimate Sanding Head by Vermec, for sanding the inside of turned boxes, vases and other deep hollowings.
The idea of sticking my hand or even fingers inside something that's turning seems to me foolhardy, if not downright dangerous, so these tools I use a lot. These tools did not take long to make using just bits and pieces and a few sanding heads together with some threaded rods and plastic tubing.
I have them in 2 drawers of the bench where my spindle work lathe is as per these photos.
287371 and 287372
Here are some close up of the various sanding/polishing heads.
287373 These are for sanding the bottom corners of boxes. Made from some bits of foam, velcro and a threaded rod. Over the rods are some plastic tubing for comfortable handling.
287374 These are round for sanding the sides. I used various sizes of rubber tubing that were originally the sanding disks for use in a drill press. Never used them for that but finally found a good use.
287376 These are for sanding the flat bottoms. For these I used the velcro type sanding disks for use in power sanding. The short metal shaft unscrews and can be screwed straight onto a 1/4" threaded rod.
287375 These are for applying polish through a narrow opening of say vases. I bough a set from CT some years ago ( they no longer stock this item as I bought them very cheap when they were selling out of them) and again they screw onto 1/4" threaded rods.
287377 Finally a Vermec Ultimate Sanding head fixed onto a long stick for use when I 'm not using the deep hollowing tool.
They are cheap and simple to make and has made sure I still have ten fingers. :2tsup:
Peter.
The idea of sticking my hand or even fingers inside something that's turning seems to me foolhardy, if not downright dangerous, so these tools I use a lot. These tools did not take long to make using just bits and pieces and a few sanding heads together with some threaded rods and plastic tubing.
I have them in 2 drawers of the bench where my spindle work lathe is as per these photos.
287371 and 287372
Here are some close up of the various sanding/polishing heads.
287373 These are for sanding the bottom corners of boxes. Made from some bits of foam, velcro and a threaded rod. Over the rods are some plastic tubing for comfortable handling.
287374 These are round for sanding the sides. I used various sizes of rubber tubing that were originally the sanding disks for use in a drill press. Never used them for that but finally found a good use.
287376 These are for sanding the flat bottoms. For these I used the velcro type sanding disks for use in power sanding. The short metal shaft unscrews and can be screwed straight onto a 1/4" threaded rod.
287375 These are for applying polish through a narrow opening of say vases. I bough a set from CT some years ago ( they no longer stock this item as I bought them very cheap when they were selling out of them) and again they screw onto 1/4" threaded rods.
287377 Finally a Vermec Ultimate Sanding head fixed onto a long stick for use when I 'm not using the deep hollowing tool.
They are cheap and simple to make and has made sure I still have ten fingers. :2tsup:
Peter.