sanding with a drill..

[Brian McDermaid]

What do you guy's chuck into your drill and sand bowls with? I've seen some stuff from Rockler and PSI but they are (IMHO) a little costly.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places... but I'm at a loss :confused:

[Scott Conners]

Check out http://www.vinceswoodnwonders.com/ Vince's stuff is very popular here on the creek.

[tom martin]

Hi Brian,
Sanding supplies can run quite a bit. I have seen them go for between 6.95 to 19.95 for the 2" to 3" sanding mandrels. Then the replacement disks for each size in different grits and it's time for breaking the piggy bank.
Fortunately they are easy to make - I have seen posts on making them here and elsewhere. For larger bowls the standard 3m 5 inch sanding disks work fine. smaller sizes can be made by mounting a quarter inch bolt in a piece of stock (wood,plywood,plastic,or metal) and covering it with rubber (I use a piece off of one of my floor mats that started falling apart).Make sure the rubber and sandpaper extends past the material on the mandrel so you don't gouge your bowl! You can either buy of cut your own psi disks or cover the rubber with stick it 1 or 2 Velcro and make or buy Velcro disks for it.
Power sanding really does help- especially on end grain problem spots. Remember to keep your pressure light and your disk moving so you don't create divets.

[scott schmidt grasshopper]

here is the cheapest hook and loop prices I found . for mandrels.

http://www.abrasives4sale.com/hlpads.htm

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Brian you can't beat this.

http://aroundthewoods.com/sander.shtml
Good luck and have fun

[Brian McDermaid]

Brian you can't beat this.

http://aroundthewoods.com/sander.shtml
Good luck and have fun

I will make this today! Thank you.

~Brian

[Jeff Nicol]

Brian, This is where I buy all my hook and loop paper up to 600 grit. You can buy it in 30'x4" wide roll and cut your own discs of any size up to 4". It is great paper and works very well, and for the price it is hard to beat. Check it out. The little sanding pads can be gotten at just about any woodworking store on line. I have made my own at times, but if you take care of the ones you buy they will last a long time. I have bought 5 of them in 4 years and have only used 2 so far. One of them I wore the hooks off and replaced it with a new piece of velcro and got another year out of it. So you will need to buy the holders or build them but power sanding is the way to go!

http://www.onlineindustrialsupply.com/holosaro.html

Have fun and good luck.

Jeff

[Don Carter]

Brian:
Leo beat me to it. Darrell's website is a gold mine of do it yourself turning tips and tools. I have been using my shopmade sanding mandrels for a year or so and they work great. I do use Vince's sand paper. BTW, I used an old mouse pad to cover mine and put velcro from Wally world on top.

All the best.

Don

[Allen Neighbors]

Leo and Don are right on. I modified mine by using rollerblade wheels, contact cementing flip flop sole on that, and contact cementing velcro on that. Vince's disks work wonders on these little inertia sanders.

[Toney Robertson]

Brian, This is where I buy all my hook and loop paper up to 600 grit. You can buy it in 30'x4" wide roll and cut your own discs of any size up to 4". It is great paper and works very well, and for the price it is hard to beat. Check it out. The little sanding pads can be gotten at just about any woodworking store on line. I have made my own at times, but if you take care of the ones you buy they will last a long time. I have bought 5 of them in 4 years and have only used 2 so far. One of them I wore the hooks off and replaced it with a new piece of velcro and got another year out of it. So you will need to buy the holders or build them but power sanding is the way to go!

Have fun and good luck.

Jeff

Jeff,

Did you forget the link?

Toney

[Reed Gray]

The mandrel is the expensive part. A wood backing works, and different densities of foam can be used. The firmer foams for the coarser grits (up to 180 or so) and the softer foams for the finer grits. I do use an interface pad on my mandrils. It is a second pad, so you wear it out then replace it rather than redoing the main mandril. Firm mandril, all sorts of interface pads. Do check out Vinces site, not only for his abrasives, but for his tutorial on sanding as well.
robo hippy

[Steve Schlumpf]

Another vote for Vince!

[Jeff Nicol]

Jeff,

Did you forget the link?

Toney
Toney,

Yes I did!! I posted it now!! Must have been on a different planet when I posted!

here it is again: http://www.onlineindustrialsupply.com/holosaro.html

OOPS!!

Jeff