This week we will read the chapter on Belt Sanding. You can locate it at:
http://www.shopsmith.com/academy/beltsand/index.htm
I hope all that started this reading with us are still with us. If you are a few chapters behind please take a few minutes extra time this week and catch up.
Depending on how things go I'd like to make the jig shown in figure 19-25 sometime this summer. Some how I never got around to making one over all these years. (This and the jig saw were my only major extra tools for the shopsmith for a lot of years.)
Ed
PTWFE Chapter 19 Belt Sanding
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Indeed; If not TOO fast!:eek:easterngray wrote:When I was making the Jelly bean box for my daughter I used the belt sander to chamfer the edge of the lid. Making chamfers with the belt sander is easy and fast! Alec
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Goldie(Bought New SN 377425)/4" jointer/6" beltsander/12" planer/stripsander/bandsaw/powerstation /Scroll saw/Jig saw /Craftsman 10" ras/Craftsman 6" thicknessplaner/ Dayton10"tablesaw(restoredfromneighborstrashpile)/ Mark VII restoration in 'progress'/ 10E[/size](SN E3779) restoration in progress, a 510 on the back burner and a growing pile of items to be eventually returned to useful life. - aka Red Grange
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Goldie(Bought New SN 377425)/4" jointer/6" beltsander/12" planer/stripsander/bandsaw/powerstation /Scroll saw/Jig saw /Craftsman 10" ras/Craftsman 6" thicknessplaner/ Dayton10"tablesaw(restoredfromneighborstrashpile)/ Mark VII restoration in 'progress'/ 10E[/size](SN E3779) restoration in progress, a 510 on the back burner and a growing pile of items to be eventually returned to useful life. - aka Red Grange
Yes, as many of us, I have used the belt sander in all of the configurations shown. I find it to be a wonderful machine. I even use it to sharpen lathe tools
I've also sanded several of my finger tips at different times. My gosh! this machine can be dangerous if one is not careful.
I've also sanded several of my finger tips at different times. My gosh! this machine can be dangerous if one is not careful.
Octogenarian's have an earned right to be a curmudgeon.
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Chuck in Lancaster, CA
Also Chuck, it does a good job on knuckles too. 
Now if I just didn't have to keep readjusting the tracking.
Now if I just didn't have to keep readjusting the tracking.
SS 500(09/1980), DC3300, jointer, bandsaw, belt sander, Strip Sander, drum sanders,molder, dado, biscuit joiner, universal lathe tool rest, Oneway talon chuck, router bits & chucks and a De Walt 735 planer,a #5,#6, block planes. ALL in a 100 square foot shop.
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Bob