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Ripping sanding belts.
I reconfigured my hand held belt sander to use 18” belts instead of the 30” ones.
The belts are to be 1” wide and 18” around. I did not find that size at the store. I did find 3’’ wide by 18” though. All I had to do is cut them into 1” wide pieces. That would cost $1 per each. I marked a short line 1” in from the edge on the smooth side. Using a box cutter I cut a slit in the belt about 1 1/2” long. Holding the 1” wide portion of the belt in between my left hand fingers and the 2” wide part in my right hand fingers I ripped the belt apart being careful to stop before the tape splice. I used the box knife to cut the tape joint. The result was a 1” wide piece. It was not necessary to cut the whole belt. Just rip it. Mike |
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I'm going to file that one away. Thanks.
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Norm Henderson |
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A friend of mine polished several hundred crankshafts a month and he bought emery cloth in rolls and cut it on a forty five and glued it together with super glue and made his on sanding belts.
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Eddie |
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Yep, a very effective way to get narrow belts is to slice/rip wide ones.
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Kent http://www.tinmantech.com "All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919. |
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I made a small grinder of my own construction and the belts I doing cut by only hand whithout tools 20 years. It works perfectly.
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Jaroslav |
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