Free sanding pads?
On a service call tonight (commercial refrigeration) had to move 30 old
boxes of floor buffing pads to reach the refrigeration unit in the back room. Each box I picked up to throw out of the way...a couple of pads about 3-4" in diameter(I didn't measure them) and 1-1/4 or so thick fell out on the ground. I am working on the unit when it hits me "they throw the center piece out of the buffing pads away" and all I can think of is: can I use these to sand or buff items on the lathe? Might even work for Darrell Feltman's, make your own sanding pads. Work is killing me right now and I doubt I will make it to the shop for a couple of weeks to do any turning. When I do, I will report on them. Meanwhile: What say ye about buffing pad centers? There has to be a million a day going into the dumpster! Lyndell |
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:22:45 GMT, "Lyndell Thompson"
wrote: On a service call tonight (commercial refrigeration) had to move 30 old boxes of floor buffing pads to reach the refrigeration unit in the back room. Each box I picked up to throw out of the way...a couple of pads about 3-4" in diameter(I didn't measure them) and 1-1/4 or so thick fell out on the ground. I am working on the unit when it hits me "they throw the center piece out of the buffing pads away" and all I can think of is: can I use these to sand or buff items on the lathe? Might even work for Darrell Feltman's, make your own sanding pads. Work is killing me right now and I doubt I will make it to the shop for a couple of weeks to do any turning. When I do, I will report on them. Meanwhile: What say ye about buffing pad centers? There has to be a million a day going into the dumpster! Lyndell is the 1 1/4" thick part ONE center, or a stack of them? mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
Perhaps you could set up a company that already sells abrasives to
turners with this source of discs, if they work out well. Not a huge market, but people have made fortunes before figuring out how to use what would have been thrown away and was considered a nuisance. |
Mac, I didn't give very good dimensions last night. The pad centers are
about 3-1/4" in diameter and 1" thick (single piece) not 1-1/4" as I had stated. I figure if nothing else a person could use them to hold sandpaper while finishing bowls. This would keep your hands cool but give great flexibility to the surface. I may be gloating prematurely, but @ free, one can afford to gloat :-). One other thought is the fact they don't seem to hurt floors while whirling around on the buffer. Now if I can conjer up a homebrew drill chuck for these.................. Lyndell "mac davis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:22:45 GMT, "Lyndell Thompson" wrote: On a service call tonight (commercial refrigeration) had to move 30 old boxes of floor buffing pads to reach the refrigeration unit in the back room. Each box I picked up to throw out of the way...a couple of pads about 3-4" in diameter(I didn't measure them) and 1-1/4 or so thick fell out on the ground. I am working on the unit when it hits me "they throw the center piece out of the buffing pads away" and all I can think of is: can I use these to sand or buff items on the lathe? Might even work for Darrell Feltman's, make your own sanding pads. Work is killing me right now and I doubt I will make it to the shop for a couple of weeks to do any turning. When I do, I will report on them. Meanwhile: What say ye about buffing pad centers? There has to be a million a day going into the dumpster! Lyndell is the 1 1/4" thick part ONE center, or a stack of them? mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
Ya don't happen to have a few spares I could 'test' do you?
Phil |
Now if I can conjer up a
homebrew drill chuck for these.................. Lyndell two words DUCT TAPE! |
Hi Lyndell Go to Darrell Feltmates web site You will find many good plans and ideas, also for making sanding disks and passive power sander. http://aroundthewood.com/ Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo Lyndell Thompson wrote: Mac, I didn't give very good dimensions last night. The pad centers are about 3-1/4" in diameter and 1" thick (single piece) not 1-1/4" as I had stated. I figure if nothing else a person could use them to hold sandpaper while finishing bowls. This would keep your hands cool but give great flexibility to the surface. I may be gloating prematurely, but @ free, one can afford to gloat :-). One other thought is the fact they don't seem to hurt floors while whirling around on the buffer. Now if I can conjer up a homebrew drill chuck for these.................. Lyndell |
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:39:29 GMT, "Lyndell Thompson"
wrote: Mac, I didn't give very good dimensions last night. The pad centers are about 3-1/4" in diameter and 1" thick (single piece) not 1-1/4" as I had stated. I figure if nothing else a person could use them to hold sandpaper while finishing bowls. This would keep your hands cool but give great flexibility to the surface. I may be gloating prematurely, but @ free, one can afford to gloat :-). One other thought is the fact they don't seem to hurt floors while whirling around on the buffer. Now if I can conjer up a homebrew drill chuck for these.................. Lyndell I use a home made sander and hold the disks to the pad with carpet tape.. If they're an inch thick, you could also make a variation of the Dremal screw arbor that they use for thick cloth buffing wheels.. just a screw on the end of the shaft that screws into the back of the pad like a wood screw.. mac Please remove splinters before emailing |
I think I know what your talking about. The centers out of the large
floor buffing discs. The ones where I work are black for the heavy stripping pad, red for a little less coarse, and white for a polishing pad. Yeah some people use them like green 3m pads where I work. I don't see why you couldnt use them. |
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