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Everfy once in while I get to replace the wool carpet on my polisher. in the first photo i have the carpet pad glued on and the second one I have the wool carpet ready to trim to size. Then I relized I need blade in my box cutter or I got tired, one or the other.
Cool, hard to find wool carpet anymore. I gleened the last of the remnants in our area a year ago. what is the rpm of your polisher. Does the stone dictate whether you use the outside or inside of the polisher. What do you usually charge it with. Whew lots of questions. I am in the process of making a variable speed polisher and after its done want to shorten the learning curve so any info would be appreciated. Pretty carpet by the way hope it didn't come out of the middle of your living room.
Cool, hard to find wool carpet anymore. I gleened the last of the remnants in our area a year ago. what is the rpm of your polisher. Does the stone dictate whether you use the outside or inside of the polisher. What do you usually charge it with. Whew lots of questions. I am in the process of making a variable speed polisher and after its done want to shorten the learning curve so any info would be appreciated. Pretty carpet by the way hope it didn't come out of the middle of your living room.
The carpet was remnants from a house being built that I would never be able to afford. Friend found some all wool a week ago and he said it was eal expensive. I don't know the RPM but I will check and post back. I charge it with cerium oxide, can't put much on it. I have a video of it on the favorite petrified wood thread. I was trying to repost here but have trouble with my website this morning.
ok think I got the video. checked the speed, it is 32.6 RPMs
Last Edit: Jan 26, 2018 15:46:08 GMT -5 by woodman
Is the base plywood? I (Mt Hood Rock Club gear that I'm storing) have a unit with a gearmotor and a couple plywood discs, no spray shield. It came from the estate with sandpaper discs and a wide roll, probably from a lumber mill. It's probably more like 24 inches currently, but the motor has enough torque to turn something a lot bigger.
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Is the base plywood? I (Mt Hood Rock Club gear that I'm storing) have a unit with a gearmotor and a couple plywood discs, no spray shield. It came from the estate with sandpaper discs and a wide roll, probably from a lumber mill. It's probably more like 24 inches currently, but the motor has enough torque to turn something a lot bigger.
No, the 36 inch disk is steel, it sets on a tire rim on a trailer axle hub or whatever it is called. driven by a normal motor thru step down pulleys to get the 32 RPMs
Last Edit: Jan 26, 2018 15:50:45 GMT -5 by woodman
Is the base plywood? I (Mt Hood Rock Club gear that I'm storing) have a unit with a gearmotor and a couple plywood discs, no spray shield. It came from the estate with sandpaper discs and a wide roll, probably from a lumber mill. It's probably more like 24 inches currently, but the motor has enough torque to turn something a lot bigger.
No, the 36 inch disk is steel, it sets on a tire rim on a trailer axle hub or whatever it is called. driven by a normal motor thru step down pulleys to get the 32 RPMs
No, the 36 inch disk is steel, it sets on a tire rim on a trailer axle hub or whatever it is called. driven by a normal motor thru step down pulleys to get the 32 RPMs
I got it all back together today, it will take lot of polish to soak the wool carpet. I will soak it pretty good with the cerium oxide slurry before I try using it, may get that done tomorrow. I got a few wood slabs to sand and polish so I get caught up so I can do some more cutting. digging season is approaching up this way. well maybe 3 months.
Do you have another of these without the carpet that you use with grit to remove saw marks?
Weight helps, but i only put in the rear of the slab, some of these slabs are pretty heavy them selves, don't use weight on thundereggs, may a lead bean bag if i can get one to stay on. Yes this one is strictly for polishing. in a different room so I don't get any grit on it by accident.
What's the normal run time to polish?, and any reason you are using cerium oxide? have you ever put more than one rock in each bay? Thanks
Cerium Oxide I find works real good and have not wanted to mix polish to try some of the others. I do put more than one rock in each bay, just depends on what I have ready to polish. I am not a production shop, I just really play with it. with this machine I can get it running and leave for an hour before I need to rotate the slabs or rocks, bets the heck out of standing at polishing wheel and holding the rock. I do do that also tho on small stuff.
run time varys a lot on the material being polished, at least an hour I would say, i lose track of how long I do run it.
Last Edit: Jan 29, 2018 11:09:49 GMT -5 by woodman
An hour to put on a polish? Wow, that's much faster than I thought. Does running longer help or even make a difference?
If you do a good job with the bull wheel sanding, you are real close to a polish before you ever put it on the polish machine. time depends also on the material, some more some less.
First slab off of new carpet, could use more time on polisher, not enough polish on the carpet yet. It takes a fair amount to charge the carpet with the polish.
Is the base plywood? I (Mt Hood Rock Club gear that I'm storing) have a unit with a gearmotor and a couple plywood discs, no spray shield. It came from the estate with sandpaper discs and a wide roll, probably from a lumber mill. It's probably more like 24 inches currently, but the motor has enough torque to turn something a lot bigger.
No, the 36 inch disk is steel, it sets on a tire rim on a trailer axle hub or whatever it is called. driven by a normal motor thru step down pulleys to get the 32 RPMs
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