1 Nov
2011
1 Nov
'11
12:29 p.m.
On 10/31/11 5:25 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I admit I had very low hope for the tools - diamond grinder barrels
for a .5" x .5" Foredom sander drum - but at the price point I thought
I'd try 'em. These, but I think I paid $8 USD shipped for 12:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/350502972455
They suck. They're neither exactly round nor balanced and the
nickel-alloy base gets hot and cooks the expandable rubber drum.
However, with a bit of water-cooling and an old hand-piece (so I don't
hammer the bearings out of my good one) they move a lot of material
mighty fast.
I've just got the last of the parts needed to assemble my tabletop
lathe, and a suitable heatproof mandrel for those drums is high on the
project list.
Doc
I ordered
some tools on Ebay last year that were shipped direct from
China. They came packed in crumpled what-I-thought-was-newspaper,
turned out to be very explicit porn.
I wasn't as offended as probably should have been.
I suspect I'd have been rather more offended my the Chinese tools...