Bernard Arnest wrote:
Hi!

Looking at a little mini sanding belt attachment for a grinder of
mine; It really might be quite useful. In fact, if it is as useful as
I think it'll be, I'll chew through belts like nothing at all. Being
a specialized tool, I don't think anyone but the manufacturer makes
belts for it, and I don't want to spend a fortune on more and more
teeny belts.
Now, Klingspor has those handy dirt-cheap bargain boxes....
How hard is it to, and then, how do I go about, adequately
splicing together my own mini sanding belts from sliced strips of
klingspor bargain box?


thanks!!
-Bernard Arnest

Ive used sanding belts for many years for all sortsof small grinding
operations.
and Ive had a go at joining my own belts.
I did this by making a diagonal lap joint.
This copied existing belt joining method by removing the abrasive
coating down to the fabricon the underside of the lap joint, joining by
using a 2 partepoxy resin glue,
putting plastic shopping bag strips over the joint and clamping it all
together between 2 bits of wood with some car inner tube over the top of
the plastic.
Hope you follow.
This made the glue joint very thin and consequently flexible.
Worked ok but not as good as a pro joint.
A belt join has to be flexible, withstand the heat, and the tension.
A tall order.
I lengthened the belt joint life by putting that reinforced sellotape on
the belt underside for about 2in either side of the joint.
Youll have to experiment.
If its a paper belt thren I wouldnt know what to suggest. I always
worked metal.