Thread: Heavy duty Velcro.

Bunnings sell heavy duty Velcro, you won't buy more than 50mm wide

Try Terry Scott at Timberly in NZ, he may have a supplier.

Is this what you are after?
Hook & Loop Converter Sheet - 115 mm x 280 mm
Cheers,
Bill

Thanks for all the replies guys. A mate rang me and directed me to Hardware for Creative Finishes. I looked at the site and it lists standard and heavy duty, so I will give them a call tomorrow.
I am experimenting with some sanding paddles for my metal lathe as I very nearly had an incident using Emery tape.
Thanks again,
Rgds,
Crocy.

Richard, would you care to expand on that "nearly had an incident".. Remember, I do metal work also. Any cautions I can get would be greatly appreciated. I hope there wasn't any pain or injury involved.......... Jerry (in Tucson)

Originally Posted by Nubsnstubs

Richard, would you care to expand on that "nearly had an incident".. Remember, I do metal work also. Any cautions I can get would be greatly appreciated. I hope there wasn't any pain or injury involved.......... Jerry (in Tucson)

No blood Jerry, just soiled my diaper.
I had a bit of rusty Hi Tensile bar that I wanted to clean up, so I laid out the scrap carpet on the bed-way to catch the grit ( metal lathes don't like emery grit ) and using a 600mm/2 foot length of 25mm /1 inch emery tape wrapped around the bar with both ends held in one hand to make the loop, I was sliding it back and forth. No issues, done it for 50 years this way. Bloody Sunbird, bit like your Hummingbird flew into the shed and buzzed my head. ( they are trying to nest in my shed ) So I inadvertently ran the emery tape into the chuck jaws and it grabbed it and ripped it out of my fingers. Luckily when doing this, you are pulling away from the spinning chuck.
Getting too old to have incidents so my plan is to make a paddle on a stick to hold some velcro backed sandpaper under the bar, so if anything goes amiss it will just fall onto the carpet and not injure me.
Keep warm over there old mate,
Rgds,
Crocy

Crocy, Velcro may not be the best for what you want to do. Both the hook and the loop components are made of plastic that deforms under pressure, and will stay deformed if much heat is involved. You would probably fair better with wet and dry paper glued to the stick, and replacing the whole thing once you have killed the W&D. One of the more hated jobs when I was in the metal furnishing game some years ago was peeling dead Velcro hook sheet off flexible sanding pads and cleaning the pads to apply the new hook sheet. The glue they use on the hook sheet was very tenacious, but regular change over was required because the part of the pad that did the bulk of the work folded the hooks over within a week of constant work and the velcro backed disks would float off the surface then tear apart. We had to use the velcro system because we would grind /polish welds through a series of grades to produce a finished surface and needed changes of abrasive, but for something like you described, I believe that glued abrasive sticks would be better. 3M #79 spray adhesive is often great for this type of job, spray on 1 surface and bond surfaces gives a removable bond, spray on both surfaces and bond gives a permanent bond. I have used it in a number of situations where I needed either a removable/ relocatable bond or permanent bond, though I haven't used the sanding sticks I have made as files for a lathe. Hope this helps

Have a look at this i use these all the time, and yes I use them on my lathe

YouTube

Hi Richard, I use double sided carpet tape, and double sided foam tape to stick plain sand paper to all sorts of backing for static and powered rotating devices.

Thanks for everyone's help. I contacted HFCF's and the lady said that the fine Velcro has more gripping power than the coarse, so I will Park my idea for a while. As an experiment I used my inertia sander from the wood lathe with some 40 grit and gave it a pretty good workout on the metal billet and surprisingly it did not get even remotely hot. But what I did find on some obscure YouTube video was a guy that had a wooden handle like a mini bowsaw using emery tape but only working on the top of the metal. It was in some foreign language, but I liked what I saw, so I will knock one up and give it a try.
Ta,
Rgds,
Crocy.