How often you use tilt feature on disc sander

I Hardly use the tilt feature at all . But it depends what your making or plane on making.

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Next to never…..any angles that I’ve needed to sand in the past, I was able to just use my miter gauge : )

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Thanks Jim&Dusty that was what I thought to, Jim I’m not sure what all I’ll use the disc sander for probably just fairing curves, circle jigs, scarf joints ect. Dusty a miter gauge would make a good feature, something to think about.

-- If I cut it too short I can scab a piece on, but if it's too long what do I do?

I rarely use mine, although there are those rare moments when it does come in handy.

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i’ve had a home made disk for about 10 years, it doesn’t tilt and I’ve don’t beleive I’ve ever wished it did. I’ve got 2 other commercial models and I’ve never tilted either of them.

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Never tilted either one of mine.

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Yes , make a miter slot across your table to fit one of your existing miter gauges and you should be set for life : )

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

When I first started to answer, I was like the others, rarely, but then I remembered fitting some dividers in some jewelry boxes, and cleaning up some mitered 45s and a few others. I suppose I could have used something else but there it was just asking me to tilt and sand.

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This makes me feel better about my choice of no tilt feature on my disc sander, thanks for the responses.

-- If I cut it too short I can scab a piece on, but if it's too long what do I do?

I use mine when making lids and bottoms for shaker oval boxes.

The tops and bottoms are sanded to the line with about a 4-5 degree bevel. This makes the plates slip in tight like a cork in a bottle.

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Dr. Dirt raises a very good point. It’s pretty tough to sand the bevel on any curved piece using a miter gauge. If all your edges are straight…

You might get an idea for tilt from my loose tenon mortise jig posted on my web site blog
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I’ve seen somewhere a hinged faux top that gets wedged up for bevels.

Dan

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You’d be better off making dedicated bevel “ramps” to place your stock on , if that’s all you sand that isn’t straight. My sander is a real bear to get reset to 90 degrees , so now that it is “perfect” , I leave it alone : )

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

I have a sanding disk I made for my lathe, with a flat table. No tilt. Don’t need it. But then again, I also have the Ridgid Oscillating sander. I honestly rarely use the disk… Sort of redundant.

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I also made the lathe set-up and haven’t used it since getting my Ridgid sander.

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.