Sanding floors...
Jan. 5th, 2008 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpShelling out $50+ for each day's use of a drum sander provides a marvelous incentive to use it with little delay. What I didn't notice this morning upon starting to use the unit was a thick layer of what looked like a mixture of clay and fine sawdust stuck to most surfaces in the area of the drum, which in short order fouled the first belt that I put on the machine.
After vainly trying to clean the gunk out of the unit without actually disassembling it, I returned to the Home Depot and traded the machine in for a different one. This one didn't foul belts, but it also had a blockage in the line going to the sawdust bag, so we ended up running the vacuum cleaner every few minutes to get rid of the sawdust that didn't get picked up.
The lesson learned? Plug in the equipment at the rental place. Check it out.
Stripping floors, even with a belt sander to do the lion's share of the labor, is hard work. But because of its size, it can't get into the corners or strip sections that are too narrow to allow maneuvering. That means I'm nowhere near finished with the stripping job.
But I sure have a good start!
Cheers...
After vainly trying to clean the gunk out of the unit without actually disassembling it, I returned to the Home Depot and traded the machine in for a different one. This one didn't foul belts, but it also had a blockage in the line going to the sawdust bag, so we ended up running the vacuum cleaner every few minutes to get rid of the sawdust that didn't get picked up.
The lesson learned? Plug in the equipment at the rental place. Check it out.
Stripping floors, even with a belt sander to do the lion's share of the labor, is hard work. But because of its size, it can't get into the corners or strip sections that are too narrow to allow maneuvering. That means I'm nowhere near finished with the stripping job.
But I sure have a good start!
Cheers...
