Lance Norris
06-20-2010, 5:39 PM
I recently bought a benchtop OSS. I havn't had a chance to try it out yet, and am on the road and wont be home till this coming weekend. I am wondering if I can sand something thicker than the capacity of my OSS. I assume that the max capacity of an OSS is how high the spindle/drum sits above the table at the bottom of the stroke. I believe mine is around 4". So the question is, if I have something that is, say 7" thick, can I sand what I can, and then flip it over and blend in the rest? Im not talking about hogging off a 1/4" of material, but simply cleaning up bandsaw blade marks. I make lots of bandsawn boxes and this is when I would need more than the 4" of capacity that my machine has. I can clean up where the two strokes come together by hand sanding at the end.
Have any of you guys done this with good results?
Ive considered taking off the table and holding the piece im working on against the spindle and moving it up and down with the spindle travel to get all the capacity I can get, or making up some table brackets to lower the table to gain back what the table tilt function takes away from the capacity( I dont think I will use the tilt function much, but can always change back when needed).
I understand I probably should have bought a floor standing machine, but really didnt have the space, the money, or the nerve to tell my wife I was buying another large machine, so I now have a nice benchtop, I just need to get the most out of it that I can.
Comments... Suggestions...
Have any of you guys done this with good results?
Ive considered taking off the table and holding the piece im working on against the spindle and moving it up and down with the spindle travel to get all the capacity I can get, or making up some table brackets to lower the table to gain back what the table tilt function takes away from the capacity( I dont think I will use the tilt function much, but can always change back when needed).
I understand I probably should have bought a floor standing machine, but really didnt have the space, the money, or the nerve to tell my wife I was buying another large machine, so I now have a nice benchtop, I just need to get the most out of it that I can.
Comments... Suggestions...