Dev Emch
04-25-2005, 2:05 AM
Here is a new thread to pick the minds of fellow wood butchers...
Lou had published his pix on the timesaver sander and I almost fell over. That is a nice sander. But he did make some comments about it that I need to ask about.
1). Which sander is best for solid woodwork and which is best for doing veneers? Also, one thing that happens often with sanders is preparing the strips of wood for bent strip laminations. Would this application also be called veneer as it applies to wide belt sanders versus drum sanders even though the strips are 3/32 to 1/8 inch thick or more?
2). What is the point of having two drums with different grits of paper? If I need to feed stock through this sander two or three times, dont I loose the work completed by the second drum with finer paper each time the strip re-encounters the first drum with coarse paper on the second pass? Or do these sanders allow you to select which drum your going to use and raise the other one out of the way?
3). Do widebelt sanders like the one Lou posted oscillate back and forth? In looking at the **NEW** oliver drum sander, I noticed that both drums not only revolve but they oscillate back and forth like an oscillating spindle sander. This is the blue oliver and not the green oliver by the way. The blue oliver is oliver in name sake only and they import some nice machines made in tiawan and not grand rapids, MI. Its a long story involving the sale of an old woodworking name. But they had a movie clip on the website and the machine looks pretty darn nice. Dont know much about the price as I have yet to find a dealer for these guys. I will try to find that this week.
But I am looking for something to cut down the labor on doing cabinet doors, face frames and misc. stuff including prep work on stock for bent strip laminations. I have looked into going vintage but that often means getting sanders with babbitt bearings, 12,000 pound weights and half a dozen motors of 20 or so HP. (See Berlin Sanders). No Thanks, not this time around. I would like to keep the power budget under 20 HP.
Lou had published his pix on the timesaver sander and I almost fell over. That is a nice sander. But he did make some comments about it that I need to ask about.
1). Which sander is best for solid woodwork and which is best for doing veneers? Also, one thing that happens often with sanders is preparing the strips of wood for bent strip laminations. Would this application also be called veneer as it applies to wide belt sanders versus drum sanders even though the strips are 3/32 to 1/8 inch thick or more?
2). What is the point of having two drums with different grits of paper? If I need to feed stock through this sander two or three times, dont I loose the work completed by the second drum with finer paper each time the strip re-encounters the first drum with coarse paper on the second pass? Or do these sanders allow you to select which drum your going to use and raise the other one out of the way?
3). Do widebelt sanders like the one Lou posted oscillate back and forth? In looking at the **NEW** oliver drum sander, I noticed that both drums not only revolve but they oscillate back and forth like an oscillating spindle sander. This is the blue oliver and not the green oliver by the way. The blue oliver is oliver in name sake only and they import some nice machines made in tiawan and not grand rapids, MI. Its a long story involving the sale of an old woodworking name. But they had a movie clip on the website and the machine looks pretty darn nice. Dont know much about the price as I have yet to find a dealer for these guys. I will try to find that this week.
But I am looking for something to cut down the labor on doing cabinet doors, face frames and misc. stuff including prep work on stock for bent strip laminations. I have looked into going vintage but that often means getting sanders with babbitt bearings, 12,000 pound weights and half a dozen motors of 20 or so HP. (See Berlin Sanders). No Thanks, not this time around. I would like to keep the power budget under 20 HP.