A lot of people have asked what the stuff he used is. The first layer is PARCHMENT PAPER or WAX / BUTCHERS PAPER. It's used for food prep / storage. It's just a waxed paper that epoxy doesn't stick too, so it doesn't get glued to the wooden dowel. After he puts wax paper, he wraps a layer of card stock. Think construction paper or thick paper used for craft projects, another user said 300 weight. Then strips of sandpaper. He epoxies the craft paper as a backer for the sandpaper (looks to be a cloth backed sanding belt for like bench belt sanders).
nice 1 mate. brought myself a spindle sander the other week but the damn thing didn't come with the sanding sleeves. just spent 50 bucks for about 10. ill try this before i blow more money on sleeves again, cheers
This is great, thank you! MCO, It was mentioned this was done after making up some Micarta, so my guess is the material under the abrasive belt is canvas. That is what the backing on many abrasive belts/drums use, both for the tear resistance and the traction against the drive.
It's no trick, it's how the actually make these. Difference is, they make them on huge mandrills thus reducing the cost immensely so they can then sucker you out of your hard earned dollars by overpricing them to the max. Dremel's junk is prolly less than a dollar per foot of these.
you can also make cutting disks from large ones and your own polishing disks from cloth, they're very easy to make, the specialty tools are very expensive but you can make them almost for free
No problem man. I really get inspired by the way you think outside of the box. I like to think that I'm like that, but I obviously need to work on it after seeing your vids. Thanks again =]
Great Job, its always good to find people thinking outside the box, this drums are expensive, have you thought on how to build the ones that have a lot of sanding strips around an inch circle?, thanks
Making miniature sandpaper is fantastic. It's wonderful. But I have a question. There was a pipe before the sandpaper was washed. What is the name of the material?
Brilliant! I've always just superglued a small strip of w/e grit sandpaper I wanted to use around a worn out drum. Couple questions if ya don't mind.. What was the diameter of the rod you used? Also, was that contruction paper you used for the lining? Thanks for sharing :)
Geko on Crete Very cool, thanks :) And like John asked, is it pretty much the same thickness as constuction paper? I'm not sure what A3 is... but "constuction paper" (as it's called in the states at least) is just a bit thicker (than printer paper) craft paper that comes in various colors. Maybe it's not that big of a deal though. :) Thanks again
anybody know what diameter rod was used? Was it just a certain size of rebar? I need to sand some beveled edges on some kitchen cabinets. Thanks! David
Thank you for ur explianed. But what kind of glue or aboxiy using with' red strong paper' thats is very important. And what diameter size of Stick stamp? Redardes my friend
A watched a video of someone else making drums by gluing the sandpaper to a dowel, and I thought this paper wrapping method might be better. Isn't some epoxy glue heat sensitive though? Those sanding drums can really heat up in use.
I see but still.hpw first looked like parchment paper then.the red.was one sandpaper but WHY wasn't the red paper covered with the resin.then the blue was the different grit right could you email.me the idea is it cost effective
I tried to glue the sandpaper to a thin cardboard paper, but it does not seem to stick very well. When I turn on the dremel, the sandpaper separates from the cardboard. What type of epoxy are you using? Your base paper is it rubberized?
+Gleison Storto hi, its ordenary cardboard that i use. the epoxy is a thin and slow drying 2 component one. are you sure that your cardboard was soacked good with the epoxy? and that you let it dry long enough? cheers, geko
Thanx Dogs! Guess it would have nice for Geko to tell it all about the process... but was more interested in breaking our ears out with dumb endless music.. huh!
How big or small the sand or pebbles are on the sand paper. Basically how fine or coarse the sand paper is. The higher the number the finer the sand paper
