Thread: Disc sander advice

Get some spray adhesive. It's used by carpet layers. It's fantastic.

Thanks Evanism, is there a particular brand you can recommend or will something from Bunnies do?

for under $10 i would just buy another velcro adapter, make sure you wipe the metal disk down with metho before you put the new one on though to get rid of all the gunk

MIK

By 3M called super 77.

Not sure where I bought it, but it wouldn't have been anywhere exotic!

edit..... here we are: http://www.signet.net.au/store/categ...FUGTvQodEqsAdw

the one i use is from, Norton or Flexovit, SSDB (Same S%$# Different Bucket)

it holds the sand paper no worries

MIK

Keep in mind that you can set your sander to square the blanks pretty well spot on, but if the hole is not drilled perfectly square to the blank then you can still get out of square problems ,eg you need to square up the ends to the glued in tubes , with a disc sander a Jig can be made to do this ,or alternatively they can be done on a lathe with a support rod in the tailstock and sanding disc in the headstock end . So many variables, hard to get them all right all the time cheers ~ John

To get your ends square you could make up a jig as shown below where you mount your drilled blank with tube glued in on the pin. Set up a guide at 90 degrees to the disc to sit the base up against and gently touch the end of the blank on the disc until true. This would remove the problem of blanks that are not drilled straight and ending up with ends that are not square to the bore.
You can get replacement velcro pads from here.

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Thanks all for your assistance. John and Treecycle I actually have a jig that squares to the end of the tube, at the moment the disc sander is so out of whack that until I get it running as is should, nothing is going to come out square.