Is that a rock crusher in there?

Sounds like the switch to emery was a good move – not surprising in hindsight.

-- Dwight - "Free legal advice available - contact Dewey, Cheetam & Howe""

What grits did you use, and how fast does it spin? I’ve been in the middle of the trial and error phase with mine lately.

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Somehow I was hoping there would be a muncie m22 somewhere. I spent too much time around cars/gearheads.

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Scary thing is, I was looking for a 1964 GTO 389 Tri Power M22 4 speed and posi trac…. Great now I have Ronnie and The Daytonas stuck in my head….

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I start out with a 36 grit emery cloth, spray glued onto a plywood disk. then an 80,120, 180, 220grit disk sanding sheets, then buff. Still working the bugs out of the buffing wheel.

The motor spins at 1725.

I used my setup to make some figured claro walnut balls (ovals?) about 1.70 inches in diameter for a little kids push toy a few days ago. These larger diameter blocks were big enough that I could only run 3 at a time in my 1 lbs coffee can.

As the video below shows I had to clamp the lid down as the buggers kept trying to escape. The background noise is mostly of my shop-vac, and you can see how I hooked up to the can to keep from manually stopping and vacuuming out every few minutes.

And sorry for the video being 90 degrees on its side. I’ll know better next time.

http://s1115.photobucket.com/albums/k543/N6DSW/Misc/Push%20Toy/?action=view&current=video-2012-08-19-14-54-04.mp4

Dave

-- I'm not old. Just "well seasoned".

Looks like you found your True Grit. Looks great. The similarity of mine and yours is scary. And I havn’t even posted mine yet.

Lis, bigogre’s data in post #5 is spot on.

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been thinking off building one of these….the loudness part does not bother me at all since I am 85% deaf….LOL….good to know about the emory cloth….wondered how long paper backed sandpaper would last….I figured about 10 minutes at best…..liked the comments about the “rock crusher tranny ” & the daytona….Im a gearhead when away from the saws…....the two best hobbies…

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It’s worth of every noise.It is nice dekoration or jewellery at the end.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

I always thought something like this would work. Glad to see it does. Looks like an easier design than the wet method with rocks I’d been contemplating for a couple years – meanwhile I’ve collected tons of tiny pieces to polish.

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That’s a real interesting project. I would love to have one of those.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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