Tips & Hints

This page will be an attempt to share all of the good advice, tips and hints with all of the members. Often, we hear great ideas at the meetings. We would like to share some of those ideas with you here.

Submitted by Pat Johnson, demonstrator at the June 2005 Meeting

After the demonstration, Pat described how to make the sanding pads he used.  By using a regular carrage bolt with the head cut off , a fender washer, hex nut, and a T-Nut, this sanding pad was made.  The base material is foam that Orthipedic shoe inserts are made from.  The bottom is rough cut and a hole cut in the center for the T-Nut.  The big part of the T-Nut is placed in the foam to be in the middle of the finished pad.  The bolt with a nut and washer is screwed into the T-Nut to hold it firmly.  To attach the outer piece of foam, common superglue is used.  Next, the velcro must be firmly attached.  Pat recommended Household Adhesive made by Goop.  He says that anything will not sufficiently hold the velcro.  The last step is to place the pad in an electric drill and go to your bench grinder.  While using the drill to spin the pad, shape it on the grinder to get the tapered shape.  I hope everyone that needs some of these pads will try to make several.