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Monday, 16 April 2012

Belt and Disc Sander

I've been searching around the net for a 25mm (1") belt and any-size-disc combo sander. Until this morning I was convinced they were rarer than unicorns and pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Celebrate good times because I have found and purchased one this morning! On the rarity scale I would now place them around the tooth fairy region and if you doubt them I have the $3.25 to prove you wrong. Kind of. I spent $1.50 on soft serves one day because it was really hot and I had to wait for my uncle to put the finishing touches to his Wham tattoo... but I digress.

It's a used but good condition Carba-Tec 1" Belt & 5" Disc Sander model AS-130M. I've not been able to find any information on this model and neither the Sydney nor the Brisbane stores could help. Leads me to assume that it's an older discontinued model which didn't sell well. I'm hoping it's not because it was a dud machine...

The belts are 25mm x 762mm (1" x 30") which are readily available at local hardware stores. The discs are on the small side at 127mm (5") but I'll try to make do for now and upgrade to a 12" if I really need to. My main use for the disc will be to sand cogs to perfect circles and roughly 50mm of usable area on the disc should allow me to achieve this.


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