[TheForge] belt grinder

Sat Jan 25 01:30:01 2003

At 04:39 AM 1/24/03, you wrote:

Yes Ralph...and some other techniques too. I have a dinky belt sander set 
up too ( $15 plus I got to fix it). The wide belts last a long time and  do 
a bunch of tricks...as I lack a mill or shaper. The way I built it , it 
will run from about a 48" belt to about 75" in length. Unfortunately, the 
source of cheap 8 X 72" belts is gone.
Carl Jensen built an elegant belt sander mounted on a vertical shaft that 
will take a huge range of lengths. Wish I'd seen it before I started mine 
He is sort of the grand old man of the CBA.....Pete

>         Pete,  why would you run such a wide belt? are you using this for
>flattening dies and tooling as well as deburing.........or did you just get
>a railcar full of 8" wide belts at auction?
>
>         I really like Bob Bordeaux's idea of making a telescoping adjustment
>to be able to use any length belt......he comes up with the greatest deals
>on abrasives that way - as he can buy anything left over in lots not used by
>folks who can't fit particular sizes on their machines.
>
>Ralph
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Fels and Phoebe Palmer" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:37 AM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] belt grinder
>
>
> > At 03:29 AM 1/23/03, you wrote:
> >
> > I did try Bob....it seems to be hard to avoid given my overpowered
> > home-made set up.  The 8" wide belts also seem to be fussier. Am doing a
> > major rebuild on the one end again to try and control the remaining bit of
> > deflection under load.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >If they are 2" wide try taking some 1" tape and go around the center of
>the
> > >wheel 4 or 5 times and then see how it tracks.You hate to crown a wheel
>if
> > >that is not the problem
> > >
> > >Bob
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