Adam Savage's Big Disk Sander

[Ron Bean]

http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/7388

|I have an electronic three-phase converter on mine, so I can’t run
|it for more than 15 minutes, but I’ve never ever run it for a total
|of 15 minutes because it does everything I need it to do in about 30
|seconds.

We could probably build one at the Makerspace...

[Jim Rawson]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/tls/3334293143.html

Here is an 18" for $200.00

[Kevin Crowley]

Floor sander/scrubber on a precision mounting with table?

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[Brent Bublitz]

I don't think it would be too difficult to build something like this with a standard 110 motor (or two) and some belts.

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[Tom Gralewicz]

For $200, its easier to buy one designed for it rather than try to find:

18" flat steel plate mounted to a shaft and balanced.

Cast iron tilting table with adjustable spacing

Heavy base to hold it all together.

I'll throw in $50 if other people want to pitch in and someone goes and gets it.

Tom

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Tom Gralewicz
Miller Electronics Recycling
(414) 380-1716
www.deadcomputers.com

[Kevin Crowley]

I can help get it.  I think it would fit in the back seat.

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[Matt Wittmann]

The only problem is the cost of sand paper. Go through it quite fast  plus no one uses  them properly . 

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[Kevin Crowley]

80 grit should last fairly long.  200-400 would clog fast.

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[Ron Bean]

>I'll throw in $50 if other people want to pitch in and someone goes and
>gets it.

I can throw in another $50, that gets us halfway there. Anyone else?

Kevin, can you contact the seller?

[Jim Rawson]

I just did.  I could check it out tommorrow.  It was set up for 3 phase and the guy was going to convert it, but never got around to finishing it. If any of the more southern located members want to call, (262) 492-0881

 
 
 

[Jim Rawson]

$50.00 from me also.

[Kevin Crowley]

Jim,

If you are contacting him let me know what good times are for him.  I am free all day thursday, day and evening on friday and saturday. 

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

$50.00 from me also.

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[Jim Rawson]

OK Kevin.  Go for it!

[Kevin Crowley]

Does that mean I am contacting him? or that we can pick it up?

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

OK Kevin.  Go for it!

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[Matt Wittmann]

About the same.  Its not the clogging thats a problem. Its the wearing through

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[Kevin Crowley]

The old issue of let the sandpaper do the work not the operator.

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[Matt Wittmann]

I agree. Now if the people i work with can see that.

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[Kevin Crowley]

I emailed last night and just now.  Will let you know what i hear.

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[Kevin Crowley]

Tentatively tuesday morning I can get it, I  will need the cash before.

[Tom Gralewicz]

Kevin, I have $50 from Ron Bean and $50 from me, remind me next time you see me and I'll give it to you.

Tom

[Jim Rawson]

Tom, I will give you $50.00 tonight.  I thought Kevin was getting the sander yesterday?

[Kevin Crowley]

I contacted the guy yesterday.  I couldn't get it today, tomorrow, saturday or sunday he couldn't be there monday so we settled on tuesday.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tom, I will give you $50.00 tonight.  I thought Kevin was getting the sander yesterday?

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[rod...@rodneydickman.com]

Set a favorite on ebay for 18" sanding discs. I use 80 grit 12" discs. Occasionally I find a good deal on ebay for discs. Even if I have a lot on hand I buy them if they are a bargain price. 80 grit works great for steel. 60 is OK but a bit harsh at first. OK once the disc wears down some. Sanding wood or aluminum fills in the disc and ruins it. Pine especially has sap and ruins a disc quickly. I have two 12" disc grinders. I use them a lot. They are very handy.

Rodney

[Brent Bublitz]

You can easily clean pine/wood tar and sap out of the disks with solvent.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:31 AM, rod...@rodneydickman.com <rod...@rodneydickman.com> wrote:

Set a favorite on ebay for 18" sanding discs. I use 80 grit 12" discs. Occasionally I find a good deal on ebay for discs. Even if I have a lot on hand I buy them if they are a bargain price. 80 grit works great for steel. 60 is OK but a bit harsh at first. OK once the disc wears down some. Sanding wood or aluminum fills in the disc and ruins it. Pine especially has sap and ruins a disc quickly. I have two 12" disc grinders. I use them a lot. They are very handy.

Rodney

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[Pete Prodoehl]

Hey, it's Tuesday!

Any news on the disk sander?


Pete

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[Jim Rawson]

I just talked with the guy and Kevin told him he won't be able to get there until next Saturday.

 
 

[Kevin Crowley]

Also still $50 shy on the cost of the sander.  Will swing by tonight to see if there are any detonators err donaters floating about.

And will be bearing some neat pneumatic cylinders.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just talked with the guy and Kevin told him he won't be able to get there until next Saturday.

 
 

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[Jim Rawson]

Kevin, leave the money at the space, and I will go get it tommorrow. 

 
 

[Kevin Crowley]

I will be picking it up this Saturday morning between shifts.  If anyone wants to ride along.  Had to work this morning

[Jim Rawson]

Kevin, Thanks for offering to help, but this has dragged on entirely to long.  Leave the money with anyone at the space, and if I have to kick in another $50.00 when I get it tomorrow morning it is no big deal.

[Kevin Crowley]

Fine saves me driving to Burlington.  Will be there about 7:30

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Kevin, Thanks for offering to help, but this has dragged on entirely to long.  Leave the money with anyone at the space, and if I have to kick in another $50.00 when I get it tomorrow morning it is no big deal.

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[Jim Rawson]

I need to go to Racine tomorrow anyway, and I have a van.  Thanks again.

[Kevin Crowley]

2 birds one van

I like the symmetry.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to go to Racine tomorrow anyway, and I have a van.  Thanks again.

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[Jim Rawson]

I went to Burlington today and picked up the sander. We had to partly disassemble it to fit in the van.  I reassembled it and cleaned it up a little.  I mounted the motor with some vice grip clamps and fired it up.  It works great, however Rich or Brant or Tom GR or Ron should take a look a it before it goes into general use.

[Kevin Crowley]

Does the table tilt?

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I went to Burlington today and picked up the sander. We had to partly disassemble it to fit in the van.  I reassembled it and cleaned it up a little.  I mounted the motor with some vice grip clamps and fired it up.  It works great, however Rich or Brant or Tom GR or Ron should take a look a it before it goes into general use.

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[Jim Rawson]

I think it is designed to tilt, but I didn't try to tilt it.

[Jim Rawson]

Yes, it tilts.

[Kevin Crowley]

Now we need to true it up and add a fence.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, it tilts.

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[Jim Rawson]

We are going to leave it alone.  I thought you were going to use a floor buffer on your project.

[Kevin Crowley]

Floorbuffer was a suggested alternative for building a sander. It already has many of the parts that would be needed.  Trueing it up just means the edge of the table is parallel to the face of the sander and the fence would be a clamped on fixture.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are going to leave it alone.  I thought you were going to use a floor buffer on your project.

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[Ron Bean]

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, a couple more pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24308938@N04/sets/72157632088756311/

It appears to be homemade, or at least heavily modified.

It needs a new power cord, and maybe a larger motor. The spindle has a
3-belt pulley, and the motor only has a 1-belt pulley. Also, there isn't
enough tension on the belt.

It also needs a dust collection port. I wouldn't suggest using it in its
current state, but with a bit of work, it looks like it will be an
awesome tool :-).

[Jim Rawson]

Adam Savage will have sander envy.

[Collin Britt]

Pssh, look at that puny thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpN8yWEqNQ#t=0h9m46s 

[Jim Rawson]

It's like a child's toy compared to MMS INSANE

[Ron Bean]

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIpN8yWEqNQ#t=0h9m46s

Did you notice the big wooden bracket above it?
I wonder what that's for.

[Brent Bublitz]

I just saw the pictures. By the hammer of Thor, that thing is a monster.

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[Jim Rawson]

It looks like a rifle stock.  I'm not sure it is attached to the sander.

[Brent Bublitz]

Do I need to cut a vinyl 'MMS INSANE" sticker for this?

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

It looks like a rifle stock.  I'm not sure it is attached to the sander.

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[Jim Rawson]

INSANE Sands Savage's Sander

[Jason Hilleshiem]

Jim can you do a blog post so I can tweet Mr. Savage and tell him Milwaukee Makerspace does it better.

-Jason H

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jim Rawson <taxi...@gmail.com> wrote:

INSANE Sands Savage's Sander

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[Matt Czapar]

Can the tweet be something like "Adam Savage has the biggest disk Sander: BUSTED"

Or something like "Milwaukee Makerspace has a huger sander than Adam Savage: CONFIRMED"

MMS has 54 more square inches of disk sander area: CONFIRMED

Adam Savage is gonna come check out MMS's bigger disk sander: PLAUSIBLE

I don't know.

Matt

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[jason gessner]

combine them and use the first 2.  BUSTED on savage and confirmed for ours.  Nice find!  Take that, savage!

:)

-jason

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-jason

[Brent Bublitz]

I already tweeted this earlier:

@donttrythis - Your 16 inch disk sander is adorable. The Milwaukee makerspace just scored this monster flickr.com/photos/2430893…

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[Shane]

Proposal:

Send me the full sized image that was used in the inset above...I'll
laser etch it onto some scrap wood and we can get a video clip of me
(or someone else) actually sanding down the picture of Adam w/ his
sander. :D

On Nov 29, 1:28 pm, Brent Bublitz <phot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I already tweeted this earlier:
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> @donttrythis <http://twitter.com/donttrythis> - Your 16 inch disk sander is

> adorable. The Milwaukee makerspace just scored this

> monsterflickr.com/photos/2430893…<http://t.co/ZiNotUqF>

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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, jason gessner <ja...@multiply.org> wrote:
> > combine them and use the first 2.  BUSTED on savage and confirmed for
> > ours.  Nice find!  Take that, savage!
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> > :)
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> > -jason
>

> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Matt Czapar <matt.cza...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >> Can the tweet be something like "Adam Savage has the biggest disk Sander:
> >> BUSTED"
>
> >> Or something like "Milwaukee Makerspace has a huger sander than Adam
> >> Savage: CONFIRMED"
>
> >> MMS has 54 more square inches of disk sander area: CONFIRMED
>
> >> Adam Savage is gonna come check out MMS's bigger disk sander: PLAUSIBLE
>
> >> I don't know.
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> >> Matt
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> >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Jason Hilleshiem <jrock...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >>> Jim can you do a blog post so I can tweet Mr. Savage and tell him
> >>> Milwaukee Makerspace does it better.
>
> >>> -Jason H
>

[Matt Czapar]

Second proposal:  

I realize it goes a bit against the trash talking tweets I posted very shortly ago, but what if we were to finnagle this into some type of Adam Savage, you should come out to milwaukee, check out our awesome disk sander, and bust a bunch of beer related myths in the heart of Milwaukee.  We'll help with the build, and you can help with the cameras.

Make it more of a "Adam, you should come check this out" instead of "Adam isn't as cool as MMS", because if I were him, I could see that as good a reason as any to come and do something in milwaukee.

Go team,

Matt

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[Shane]

I concur.

[Jim Rawson]

I will write a blog today.  I may have a slight tendency toward sarcasm, but with a modicum of self restraint I think I can write a blog that is both inviting and challenging to Mr. Savage.