These are good points. Get a heavy belt sander and use it upside down when
you need to. Two jobs in one.

For a disc sander, make your own. I used an old motor and mounted a pulley
on it, then drilled and tapped three screw holes to hold a round piece of
MDF for the disc sandpaper base. You can stick the shaft of the motor out a
little past the pulley to use as a pilot center for the disc to keep it
centered. I made a rest for the wood out of some plywood and hinged it with
some piano hinge on the sides, so I can tilt the rest and sand bevels. On
the rest, I also put two threaded inserts to hold a fixed miter gauge so I
can repeat the same angle again and again.
this is a case where power is not real important. If you press hard enough
into the disc that you need a bigger motor, all you do is load up or ruin
the sandpaper. I think mine is about 1/5 HP, or about 4 amps.

"woodchucker" wrote in message
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On 12/12/2014 5:58 PM, Sonny wrote:
On Friday, December 12, 2014 1:20:56 PM UTC-6, Bill wrote:
Bill wrote:
Thinking a stationary belt/disk sander might be just the thing


As a hobbyist, I've been using a 1975 Craftsman 4X24 handheld belt
sander. I flip it over, as Russell, to use as a stationary. Just
recently, it is showing signs of the brushes or something wearing out.
It's been making ugly groaning noises at startup. After a minute or 2,
it sounds better, but it's not purring.

I vote get a good handheld, for now..... heavy weight and increase AMPs.
With the handheld, let the weight of the sander be the applied pressure,
i.e., don't apply additional pressure, while sanding.

Sonny


I have a Ryobi handheld that is like the Bosch. It has a sanding frame
so it can be used for large flattening. The frame is great.

The flat top on it makes it easy to flip over but I don't need to use
it. Like I said b4.

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Jeff


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