Consumption of Belt Sanders

[mross]

This is intresting. I am considering the HF sander. Has anyone used this enough to give an opinion?

 

[munk]

The most frightening aspect of the HF is that it weighs only 13 pounds. That scared me off. I believe Namarie owns one though, and it seems to do his sharpening chores just fine. At 29 bucks, it could sin quite a bit and still be useful and worth the money.


munk

 

[Khukuri Monster]

You want a factory? You can build one from scratch if you just have enough time...

Metalworking Shop from Scrap series from Lindsay technical books:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

You start out by building a foundry, which lets you make metal castings for a lathe, then you can build yourself a milling machine, drill press, band saw, etc. After building all that stuff, you might have enough expertise to design your own belt sander, too.

Quite interesting, but it seems like it would take a lifetime to make all that stuff from scratch.

 

[munk]

Start building firearms. Monster Arms Inc. "We cast 'em; you blast 'em."


munk

 

[FallingKnife]

Glad you got a working one, Munk.

You want a factory? You can build one from scratch if you just have enough time...

And then you can put a proper convex edge on a knife.

That's the thing that makes me wonder how useful we'd be if sent back in time. I mean, we know about how to use things like auto-loading guns, computers, gasoline engines. We might even know how to repair them. But put me back in the late 1700's. Could I actually help build any of these from scratch? I guess I could tell B. Franklin that he's on the right track with the electricity thing, and give him the heads up on germ theory. And Pasteurization would have a different name today, now wouldn't it?

 

[Yvsa]

This is intresting. I am considering the HF sander. Has anyone used this enough to give an opinion?

I didn't use it but from the apperance of Rio Jim's, I'm pretty sure it was the little HF belt sander, it is about as small as it's feasible to go and still be able to put a useful convexed edge on a knife.
Methinks it would fill the bill nicely if a person lived in an apartment and didn't have much room.
I don't know the variety of belts that's available for it but with their size I don't think they would last as long as the 1" X 42" belt the Delta uses.

From experience with using a 1" X 42" belt in a manufacturing atmosphere I would opt for the Delta if at all possible.
The Delta gives you more area of slack belt when the platen is removed as well.
I wouldn't hesitate in using the Delta to make a small knife from scratch say out of a file or something similar, if I only had the HF I would have to do some serious thinking about it.

 

[Khukuri Monster]

I guess I could tell B. Franklin that he's on the right track with the electricity thing

We could get him to change the terminology a little. They named the kinds of charge "positive" and "negative" because it was believed a negatively charged object was lacking in the essential "stuff" that gave it charge. (And conversely, a positively charged object would have an excess of this "stuff".) In reality, something that is negatively charged has an excess of electrons.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

I wondered for awhile myself, then went the opposite way and got proud of my near-800 posts with only one chicklet. That has to be a record

Not even close, I had well over 8000 before I broke two. I get a lot of points though, they are just not all positive.

Sucks on the grinder, some people have all the luck. Yeah get a stone, you can use it to bake bread too.

-Cliff

 

[munk]

Well Cliff, at least you don't look like a gaudy South American General like I do- with ribbons, medals from campaigns never fought, and chicklets, lot's of cactus buttons and chiclets...


munk