Ok, here's the deal. I've got about 1000 little cleats for a wine
cellar that need sanding. They're 3/4" square by 12.5" long with a
small bevel at one of the ends - I just lopped one of the corners
off. The two adjacent long edges that die into the bevel have been
rounded over with a 16th" radius bit. What I need to do now is figure
out how to round over the sharp edges where I've cut the bevel. I'm
not looking for perfection since these are just cleats, and barely
seen. But I do want them broken a bit, and I'd like not to have to do
it by hand. I'd prefer to shove it into a spinning abrasive flap or
flop or mop sander for a second or so and be done with it. Has anyone
done this? I'm looking for suggestions as to which particular mop
head to buy.

Thanks.

Oh yeah - the wood is redwood, reclaimed from wine vats. It's very
soft, but very, very nice. The entire shop smells like red wine too.

JP

Mop sander wouldn't maybe be the best for this. They are better at
getting into linear grooves of molding. What you really want is a
pneumatic (sp?) sander. Think of a go-cart wheel rim with just an
inner tube mounted (no tire) and then a sanding belt over that.
mounted on a motor and spinning. You adjust the air pressure to get
variable amounts of radius.

You can maybe fake this by inverting a palm or half sheet vibrating
sander and mount the sandpaper with some foam rubber or other squish
material beneath it. Clamp it to a table, sanding side up and you are
off to the races.


On Dec 3, 5:32*pm, Jay Pique wrote:
Ok, here's the deal. *I've got about 1000 little cleats for a wine
cellar that need sanding. *They're 3/4" square by 12.5" long with a
small bevel at one of the ends - I just lopped one of the corners
off. *The two adjacent long edges that die into the bevel have been
rounded over with a 16th" radius bit. *What I need to do now is figure
out how to round over the sharp edges where I've cut *the bevel. *I'm
not looking for perfection since these are just cleats, and barely
seen. *But I do want them broken a bit, and I'd like not to have to do
it by hand. *I'd prefer to shove it into a spinning abrasive flap or
flop or mop sander for a second or so and be done with it. *Has anyone
done this? *I'm looking for suggestions as to which particular mop
head to buy.

Thanks.

Oh yeah - the wood is redwood, reclaimed from wine vats. *It's very
soft, but very, very nice. *The entire shop smells like red wine too.

JP

On Dec 4, 12:55 am, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
Mop sander wouldn't maybe be the best for this. They are better at
getting into linear grooves of molding. What you really want is a
pneumatic (sp?) sander. Think of a go-cart wheel rim with just an
inner tube mounted (no tire) and then a sanding belt over that.
mounted on a motor and spinning. You adjust the air pressure to get
variable amounts of radius.

You can maybe fake this by inverting a palm or half sheet vibrating
sander and mount the sandpaper with some foam rubber or other squish
material beneath it. Clamp it to a table, sanding side up and you are
off to the races.

I've tried bench mounting a 1/4 sheet sander and a big NO on that
plan. I replaced the bolts that were holding the two halves of it
together with threaded rod and sandwiched it between two pieces of ply
which were pocket screwed down to a mounting board. The sander really
doesn't like it. The bench it gets clamped to really doesn't like
it. Everything that *was* on said bench that is now on the floor
really doesn't like it. It sort of works, but it wants to vibrate the
stock all over the place and you'll be changing the paper every 5
minutes.

A flap sander is pretty much designed to do that, isn't it? It seems
like the Sand-O-Flex is about the only option, other than the Grizzly
standalone machine if you want to go all out.


-Kevin

On 4 Dec, 01:32, Jay Pique wrote:
What I need to do now is figure
out how to round over the sharp edges where I've cut *the bevel. *

How about a bench-mounted disk sander? Not to hard to make your own
either (commercial layshaft, turned plywood disk, recycled motor)

On Dec 5, 6:29 am, Andy Dingley wrote:
On 4 Dec, 01:32, Jay Pique wrote:

What I need to do now is figure
out how to round over the sharp edges where I've cut the bevel.

How about a bench-mounted disk sander? Not to hard to make your own
either (commercial layshaft, turned plywood disk, recycled motor)

I know that Jay has an edge sander, because when I was looking for
advice on getting one he helped me out, and I know it'd be easy enough
to do it with that, and he probably has a disc sander if he has an
edge sander. But since he's got 1000 of the suckers to do he's
looking for a way to do it without having to pivot them against the
belt/disc. I would think with the grizzly flap sander you could set
it up on the bench with some thing to raise up a table under the flap
sander part and just shove a few of them in there at a time. I can't
see why it wouldn't work, but I can't say it definitely would either.

-Kevin

Jay Pique wrote:

Ok, here's the deal. I've got about 1000 little cleats for a wine
cellar that need sanding. They're 3/4" square by 12.5" long with a
small bevel at one of the ends - I just lopped one of the corners
off. The two adjacent long edges that die into the bevel have been
rounded over with a 16th" radius bit. What I need to do now is figure
out how to round over the sharp edges where I've cut the bevel. I'm
not looking for perfection since these are just cleats, and barely
seen. But I do want them broken a bit, and I'd like not to have to do
it by hand. I'd prefer to shove it into a spinning abrasive flap or
flop or mop sander for a second or so and be done with it. Has anyone
done this? I'm looking for suggestions as to which particular mop
head to buy.

Thanks.

Oh yeah - the wood is redwood, reclaimed from wine vats. It's very
soft, but very, very nice. The entire shop smells like red wine too.

JP

Either of these should work:

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

Nova wrote:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge


Dude's going the wrong way, against the grain, in this photo, isn't he?


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-MIKE-

"Playing is not something I do at night, it's my function in life"
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On Dec 5, 2:17*pm, wrote:
I know that Jay has an edge sander, because when I was looking for
advice on getting one he helped me out, and I know it'd be easy enough
to do it with that, and he probably has a disc sander if he has an
edge sander. *But since he's got 1000 of the suckers to do he's
looking for a way to do it without having to pivot them against the
belt/disc. *I would think with the grizzly flap sander you could set
it up on the bench with some thing to raise up a table under the flap
sander part and just shove a few of them in there at a time. *I can't
see why it wouldn't work, but I can't say it definitely would either.

They're done. Well....half of them are done. I used a Sand-o-flex
disc thingy on the drill press, and it worked "ok". It wasn't the
edges that I wanted to round over - they had already been done with a
palm router before I cut them to length. What I need to hit were the
sharp edges at the end where it was cut and beveled. I could have hit
the side edges on with the 16th inch radius bit again, but that would
have meant handling them all again, and it's a pretty small area and
maybe not worth the effort. And that still wouldn't have eased the
two 45 degree edges on the bevel. The Sand-o-flex head let me just
stick the end in and roll it around a little to hit all the edges.
Once I get into a rhythm I was able to get the edges consistent with
each other, but not exactly how I'd like them.

I was thinking by the end of it that if I factored in the time spent
rounding over the initial lengths and doing the mop sanding, I might
could do them all "by hand" just as quick. What I was thinking was I
could set up a very narrow vacuum clamp foot toggle. I put one on the
clamp, toggle it on with my foot, and take a quick couple passes over
the whole length and width of the cleat with a sanding sponge, sort of
rounding over the bevel at the end of my stroke.

But who knows. At the end of the day, once they get installed and
filled with wine, you barely see any of them anyways!

JP

On Dec 5, 3:10*pm, -MIKE- wrote:
Nova wrote:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge

Dude's going the wrong way, against the grain, in this photo, isn't he?

Oh yeah - he's on his way to a nice big tearout! Nice catch.

JP

-MIKE- wrote:
Nova wrote:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge


Dude's going the wrong way, against the grain, in this photo, isn't he?


Maybe it's a Dudette.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

A man is not complete until he is
married, and then he's finished.

Gerald Ross wrote:
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=round%20edge


Dude's going the wrong way, against the grain, in this photo, isn't he?


Maybe it's a Dudette.


She needs to shave her knuckles, then. :-)


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-MIKE-

"Playing is not something I do at night, it's my function in life"
--Elvin Jones (1927-2004)
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