Most of you know I like tinkering with my "toys" almost as much as I like building knives, well here's my latest tinkerin. I had an old Wilton 2X42 belt and 8" disc grinder. It crapped out a while back due I'm sure to all the dust and crud accumulating in the motor. I didn't realize how much I used it till I didn't have it any more so went to looking at alternatives. Replacement with the same thing was looking like pushing $400 shipped here. All I really needed was the disc sander part and anybody whose has used a constant, high speed disc sander knows the disadvantages not to mention health hazards involved. I wanted a variable speed and reversible sander which since I had already bought one of those some time ago I knew was going to be some big $$.
Enter our favorite huge online auction site... A week of "shopping" and I had a 3ph, AC, 2hp motor and an inverter coming. The inverter was used but guaranteed but the motor was new and I'd found what is called a "washguard" version. Completely sealed so no more dust in the motor problems. Anyway for less that $300 and a little work your looking at the latest addition to my shop... One cannibalized belt/disc sander, don't know why I didn't do it a long time ago.
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Looks purdy fan-dancy to me. I like all the light you have in your shop also, looks pretty bright to me.
Those things are handy for getting parts flat. Is that one of those lights you bought awhile back? Lin
Yep that is the last of five lights, seems the older I get the more light I need, plus glasses and my ever present optivisor...