Re: Questions for those who have a Performax Drum sander
- From: "Tyke" <tyke@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:28:45 -0500
Like many of the other replies, I have a different model. Mine is the
16/32.
Another poster advised the other models, like mine have 1/16in for a full
turn. I use 1/8th of a turn.
I tried 36 grit paper and went back to 80 grit.
The 36 grit did not allow a deeper pass, but it did leave deeper grooves in
the wood, which will require further sanding or planing. In this test I
tried sanding with random orbit sander. Took a long time. Hence I removed
the 36 grit.
One example of using the drum sander for reducing thickness, is when I need
to get < 1.8in strips. So far this has been for a friend who wants the
strips for a basket project.
Another example to use the drum sander for reducing thickness is for glue
ups which are > than the 13in width of my planer. For such widths I really
need slow and light passes.
Dave Paine.
"NoOne N Particular" <twoblues@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have recently Purchased a used Performax 10/20 drum sander and have been
having some fun with it. the first thing I did was to take a 1 1/4" x 8"
x14" piece of some old redwood I had laying around and turn it into a
1/16"x8"x14" piece of very thin veneer. In doing so, I learned a couple of
things. A good dust collector is a MUST. The old 3HP 16gal ShopVac gets a
lot of the dust, but it ain't really up to the task. (Not to mention the
fact that my ears are not up to the ShopVac either.) Second thing I learned
was that you also need patience. But that got me to wondering.
I had thought that sanding would be a little faster that it is. For
example: I have 80-grit loaded on the machine (I don't have anything
coarser yet). When sanding a piece of wood that is only 6" wide, I can
only take 1/4 turn on the height adjusting wheel. One full turn is
labeled as 1/64" which is about .015", and that doesn't seem too agressive
to me. But the drum will almost immediately stop and then the overload
breaker pops. So I sez ok, 1/2 turn which should be only about .008" or
so. Eight one thousandths of an inch. A red xxx hair. Run the board thru
and the drum again stops after about 4 inches of feed. COME ON NOW!
Turns out that I can get about 1/3 turn of the depth wheel and it will run
all the way through with no problem. That is only about .005" per pass.
Oh btw, the feed rate is set fairly low at about 30 on a scale to 100 so
it is feeding fairly slow. If I set it any lower I would be gray haired
by the time I got one pass done. (I guess that means that I have made a
few passes already. crap!)
So the questions. Is that what I should expect with 80-grit? What could
I expect with 60-grit or 36-grit? Does a "real" dust collector do a good
job of sucking up all that dust? Any other tips for me?
TIA,
Wayne
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