[TheForge] An abrasive product to consider?

[Bruce .]

I haven't seen it in person, but that Lee Valley food mill LOOKS inferior
to the classic Victorio food strainer
http://victorio.info/food-strainer.html
which has been around for ages and which has attachments available for
doing tomatoes, squash, and other vegetables.  I use mine for apples to
make apple butter.  I've had it for 30+ years.
METAL CONTENT:
I found a CAST IRON version of this thing at a flea market and was going to
re-tin it, but the aluminum hopper was cracked and I never found a way to
fix it -- so it's sitting in storage.  I don't really need it, but I am
partial to old kitchenware...
Bruce
NJ


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 2:29 PM Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:

>
> I wrote:
>
> mds> A 3M Scotch Brite-like product called (IIRC) Clean'n'Strip is
> mds> super.
> mds> [snip]
> mds> 3M is, at least in Nova Scotia, a bastard to deal with...
> mds> [snip]
> mds> A very nearly identical product is available from Walter for less
> mds> money.  Still not cheap but I wouldn't be without it.
>
> and Dave Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> replied:
>
> > maybe a call to Lee Valley and they might carry them for you.  I
> > don't find them on their site now but they are always adding things...
>
> I've switched to the Walter variant for which there is a local dealer.
> I don't know if Walter makes the finer grits but the coarse black
> discs are what I find so useful.
>
> > ...and it is something woodworker could use too.
>
> Yes.  Because of the open mesh, they cut through grease, old paint,
> polymer scum etc. without clogging the way surface-coated abrasives
> do.
>
> Not to scorn Lee Valley.  They came up with a tomato pulper way, way
> better that the old Foley Food Mill we'd used for years.  (We do 2 or
> 3 bushels every year.)  And they had a set of stones & burrs that fit
> the old string-belt driven dental drill I lucked on to -- smaller
> shank than easily found Dremel and larger shank than modern dental
> drills.  Oh, and 2B pencils. The standard pencil in Canada seems to be
> HB.
>
> Tnx,
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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