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If you're having difficulty getting the sandpaper disks to stay stuck to the disk (i.e., getting bubbles in the paper), try applying pressure to the sandpaper when first attaching the paper with a bench vice. Simply drop the disk with the sandpaper mounted into the vice and give it a good squeeze, rotate the disk, another squeeze, etc., until you've pressed the entire surface of the sandpaper. If you then have trouble removing the paper, use a heat gun. Lacquer thinner will remove any adhesive that sticks to the disk.

pennview wrote:If you're having difficulty getting the sandpaper disks to stay stuck to the disk (i.e., getting bubbles in the paper), try applying pressure to the sandpaper when first attaching the paper with a bench vice. Simply drop the disk with the sandpaper mounted into the vice and give it a good squeeze, rotate the disk, another squeeze, etc., until you've pressed the entire surface of the sandpaper. If you then have trouble removing the paper, use a heat gun. Lacquer thinner will remove any adhesive that sticks to the disk.

Anyone tried Barge Cement?

Fred

Any paint stripper harmful to the envoirnment will remove that old adhesive and may others. The new enviro friendly formulas won't even soften toilet paper.

Thanks for the tip about 3M 77 spray. Keeping discs stuck is a problem here in the valley.

One of the tricks Rick Davis showed us in the last Traveling Academy session I attended was hot water. He used the hotel room bathtub, but any sink that has really hot water and enough room for a disk will work. Just get the water hot, put in the plug, insert disc while water is running, by the time you get the water off, the glue will have softened enough to peel. Mineral spirits to wipe off any Klingons works. Exercise caution demonstrating this to your wife.

Not to hijack the thread, but tthis morning I was thinning down a piece of poplar with the conical disk and saw that most of the dust was missing the lower guard and being thrown onto me. In an "aha" moment I rotated the front of the guard up a little and ¡Bingo! The dust went in.

Thanks for the tip about 3M 77 spray. Keeping discs stuck is a problem here in the valley.

One of the tricks Rick Davis showed us in the last Traveling Academy session I attended was hot water. He used the hotel room bathtub, but any sink that has really hot water and enough room for a disk will work. Just get the water hot, put in the plug, insert disc while water is running, by the time you get the water off, the glue will have softened enough to peel. Mineral spirits to wipe off any Klingons works. Exercise caution demonstrating this to your wife.

Not to hijack the thread, but tthis morning I was thinning down a piece of poplar with the conical disk and saw that most of the dust was missing the lower guard and being thrown onto me. In an "aha" moment I rotated the front of the guard up a little and ¡Bingo! The dust went in.