Thread: Found gold again at Paul’s hardware again

Originally Posted by Wongo

:eek: The only problem is there are no holes on the disc

and that it looks like you got Glass paper:confused: :eek:

sharpen up a bit of pipe the right size and punch away.

works for me, I use pipes to punch out disks for my little hand sander turning thingo.

jam a bit of hardwood in the top end to save your hammer.

maybe have a round disk the same size as the sandpaper, and then stick some sharpened dowls into pre-drilled holes in the disk, and then lay it dowl side up, and then lay a piece of sandpaper(or more) and then pull it down over the dowls, so you have 8 holes,

Just a thought

Thanks slow6.

Originally Posted by Wongo

Does anyone have a cunning way to cut holes on sandpapers?

cut an old golf club shaft at the step about 5'' below the grip. place an old disc on a stack of new ones as a guide,and bang em out on a block of wood.

Originally Posted by Slow6

sharpen up a bit of pipe the right size and punch away.

works for me, I use pipes to punch out disks for my little hand sander turning thingo.

jam a bit of hardwood in the top end to save your hammer.

Where'd you come from stranger?:confused: Out of the woodwork to spoil my post you mongrel:mad: :eek:

I would get two pieces of ply wood and make a template from an old disk and the clamp the sanding disks between the plywood and drill the holes out. Drill them from the back of the sanding disks to save the drill bit from being bluntened. May have to touch up the drill bit after but would be much quicker than doing them one at a time.

The other way would be to buy a wad punch. Bit dearer.

Where is Paul's?

Tex

Originally Posted by Tex B

Where is Paul's?

Tex

I'm amazed you live in Sydney and you don't know where Pauls Hardware is.

I live 500 klms away and even I know where it is.

At one time in the 1950's it was the only place you could buy proper tools.

http://search.findmap.com.au/?q=Hard...&action=Search

Originally Posted by Barry_White

I'm amazed you live in Sydney and you don't know where Pauls Hardware is.

I live 500 klms away and even I know where it is.

At one time in the 1950's it was the only place you could buy proper tools.

http://search.findmap.com.au/?q=Hard...&action=Search

In Sydney city, it still is.

I love this forum. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for posting Wongo.

Tex

I have used blank sanding disks many times and this is what I do...


(1) use an old sanding disk to create a template
(2) stackup a few of the new disks (the number will depend on grit)
(3) use the template to mark the holes on the top disk of the stack
(4) the magic ingredient is a packet of el-cheapo hole punches that you can get from supercheap or the warehouse, pick the right size and hammer into the disks using a timber backing, very clean and accurate cuts

I use this method for my random orbital and also rectangular orbital sanding sheets, works well.

Hmm you blokes are fantastic. All methods suggested here are quite workable.

I will Barry’s method first because it is simple.

Thanks again.

The holes look around .308 cal. Hmmmmmm???

Nah....Don't think I'm that good a shot.