"David F. Eisan" tantalized us with tales of cast iron magic.

Very nice, do you do house calls?

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

I pretty much did the same thing a few weeks a go David. However I use an
actual ScotchBrite pad and my ROS. I put on an 80 grip paper to hold the
Scotch Brite pad. Like a large floor buffer, I laid the pad on the saw, and
set the sander on the pad. I combined that with Top Saver and it worked
great.


"David F. Eisan" wrote in message
...
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

"samson" wrote in message
.. .

Where do you pick up this surface conditioning belt?

Thanks,

S.

As I mention to David, if you have a ROS, you can set it on top of a regular
Scotch Brite pad and get the same results using the Top Saver.

David,
Where can one find the Top Saver?

Thanks,

Ray
===

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:47:56 -0800, "David F. Eisan"
wrote:

Damn.. I just cleaned my TS this morning with my palm sander and thought I was
weird.. lol

It got left out in one of the 2 rains we had this year, when they were pouring
the concrete in the carport... turned a nice orange, kinda like home depot..

I used topsaver and the pad and got the orange off, bit the surface was a little
pitted and just didn't feel right..
Not being as smart as you and Leon, I used 800 grit wet/dry on the finishing
sander and wet sanded the top with mineral spirits, then went over it with
topcoat and a rag later..
It worked pretty well, but I'll use a Scotchbrite pad on the belt sander and
anything else I need to clean..


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



mac

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On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:41:29 -0600, "Ray S. & Nayda Katzaman"
wrote:

David,
Where can one find the Top Saver?

Thanks,

Ray
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GREAT stuff...


mac

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David,

Have you tried Pumice Stones? Fastest way, I know of, to remove rust. It really does an excellent job.

Don't need it any more here.

W. Kirk Crawford
Tularosa, New Mexico

Using WD-40 and this method, you can clean a table top
but you will make a major mess with the liquid being
thrown every where.

Leon wrote:
I pretty much did the same thing a few weeks a go David. However I use an
actual ScotchBrite pad and my ROS. I put on an 80 grip paper to hold the
Scotch Brite pad. Like a large floor buffer, I laid the pad on the saw, and
set the sander on the pad. I combined that with Top Saver and it worked
great.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:53:41 GMT, Pat Barber
wrote:

Using WD-40 and this method, you can clean a table top
but you will make a major mess with the liquid being
thrown every where.

Not really... I did it with my palm sander and it not only didn't make a mess,
it seemed to use less fluid than doing it by hand..

Leon wrote:
I pretty much did the same thing a few weeks a go David. However I use an
actual ScotchBrite pad and my ROS. I put on an 80 grip paper to hold the
Scotch Brite pad. Like a large floor buffer, I laid the pad on the saw, and
set the sander on the pad. I combined that with Top Saver and it worked
great.


mac

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