Hello everyone,

I have moved most of my machines from their previous location to my new
house. As some of these tools have sat for a while I decided to clean them
all as I set them up for use at the new place. One of the worst pieces was
an older Delta 6x48" belt, 12" disk sander. It was my intention to do a full
restoration w/paint, but I don't have time for that. I will be pressing it
into service in the next week or so as I still have *loads* to do at the new
place. This machine has sat idle for many many years and the tables were
quite dingy.

Rather than using elbow grease to clean the table, I enlisted the services
of a Makita 9924DB belt sander. Now, I know what you are thinking, Ack! Only
and idiot would take a belt sander to a cast iron table! And, you are right,
only an idiot would. Unless of course, that idiot was using a surface
conditioning belt rather than regular sanding belt. A surface conditioning
belt looks like a Scotchbrite pad. This one was blue, and I have no idea
what grit it conforms to. We have been using this on used equipment at work
for a while and it does wonders, cleaning up quickly without leaving any
marks.

The table was sprayed with "Top Saver", left to sit for a minute, and then I
had at it for a short bit of time with belt sander and the blue surface
conditioning belt.

You can see the table on the sander, halfway done, done, and back on the
sander.

Very impressive results for a very small amount of work.

I also cleaned up my table saw, jointer and OSS as well. The bandsaws will
have to wait until they make it over here.

Thanks for looking,

David.

Every Neighbourhood has one, in Mine I'm Him