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Drum/ Thickness Sander
S. Heslop:
Haven't worked out any surface speed, but i've found commercial sanders quoted at running 1400rpm with the same sized drum as i'm going for.
S. Heslop:
The stuff arrived today, surprisingly early. I got the belt cut, terribly though. I feel a bit silly because it's only about 10mm wider than the table, and I should've built the table to match the belt. But I was planning on using some 'real' conveyor belt material at first, but couldn't find any for sale or any information on how to splice it (other than product pitches).
Anyways, as predicted, there's problems with it tracking. I spent a while tweaking it without any luck. With so much to adjust I'm not really too concerned about it tracking in both forwards and reverse though.
I suppose i'll try crowning the drive roller more heavily to begin with.
In all honesty I was sort of hoping to have a lazy day today, but the stuff arriving has made me feel like I need to do at least some work on it.
DMIOM:
It might be worth considering lining the two vertical sides where the edge of the belt will touch/drag with Formica or similar?
Fergus OMore:
Simon
Probably your supplier at a reasonably approachable price is Wickes. I bought a long roll- about 12 metres long but only 10cm wide. It's about £12 a roll. How to join it is any bodies guess. All that I can tell you is that I bought stuff for an old Picador but it was only about 3" wide. The firm was Davis Abrasives then in Byker and is now in Cramlington. The joints were diagonally cut and scarfed and glued.
Maybe this helps. Let me know
Norman
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: DMIOM on January 30, 2015, 10:40:56 AM ---It might be worth considering lining the two vertical sides where the edge of the belt will touch/drag with Formica or similar?
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Yeah I was considering something like that if I couldn't get the belt to track at all. The cutouts to let the drum reach the table though would be a problem since the belt looks like its trying to ride up over there, since the seam on the straight side isn't perfectly lined up.
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