On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:51:20 -0500, Leon wrote:

"Larry Blanchard" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:30:50 -0700, DerbyDad03 wrote:

You do realize that I bought a Disc Sander, not a Sanding Disk, right?

Yes I do. If either the table or the disc tilts you can use it just as
I described by setting up a rip fence of some sort. If no tilt, then
you can't use it as a jointer and should have a flat disc.


IF you use the bench top sander which sands in the middle of the disk to
sand the edge of the wood with the aid of some sort of rip fence, WHAT
do you use to remove the sanding marks that will resulf. The scratch
pattern will be 90 degreed to the grain dirrection.

This is turning into a seminar :-).

If you take a tapered disc and tilt it so that the taper is perpendicular
to the table, the only part that touches the wood is a thin vertical
slice. That slice is moving parallel to the table and to the grain. Yes,
there's a very slight arc - a few degrees - pretty much invisible.

I've described this several times now. If you still don't understand it
I can't help any more.

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