Wadkin sanders

[God mode restorations]

Evening guys.
Always liked thone wadkin sanders. Are they mainly used for wood work. Or can they be used for metal work..just wondering.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Evening guys.
Always liked thone wadkin sanders. Are they mainly used for wood work. Or can they be used for metal work..just wondering.

Do you mean the long belt (4M+) pad sanders?

 

[God mode restorations]

Do you mean the long belt (4M+) pad sanders?

These ones. I no they are 3 phase but just wondering if they can or could be used for metal work.

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Should be fine for ferrous and non ferrous metals, watch out if it's been used for timber previously as there could be a build-up of flammable sawdust in the extraction system.

I thought you meant a pad sander originally:

Guaranteed to fill your nasal cavities with loads of dust!

 

[brightspark]

great on metal or wood the disk and the belt

 

[the artfull-codger]

As Wendelspanswick says watch out for sawdust catching fire but worse than that is when you've been doing a lot of steel or iron work & loads of dust builds up & turns rusty Then you sand aluminium!! you will get an exothermic reaction & it will explode in your face rust[iron oxide] plus aluminium powdwr creates thermite [as in thermite welding rail tracks etc] An article was written about this when a blokes son was doing steel the father did not know & was sanding alloy & it blew up in his face.

 

[God mode restorations]

As Wendelspanswick says watch out for sawdust catching fire but worse than that is when you've been doing a lot of steel or iron work & loads of dust builds up & turns rusty Then you sand aluminium!! you will get an exothermic reaction & it will explode in your face rust[iron oxide] plus aluminium powdwr creates thermite [as in thermite welding rail tracks etc] An article was written about this when a blokes son was doing steel the father did not know & was sanding alloy & it blew up in his face.

That's crazy....I learn new stuff everyday..interesting and very useful information there...cheers.

 

[Ton-up]

They will be fine for metal, but you will will probably need to slow it down. Wood machines generally use faster speeds than wood machinery. I use my linisher with a vfd, so I can change belt speed to suit the material being sanded by a turn of a knob.

 

[brightspark]

most belt and disk sanders run at 1450rpm direct of motor metal or wood both of mine do