Tip: Sanding inside cylinder

I picked up a huge pair of surgical forceps for sanding inside deep narrow openings. Cheap enough at the flea market.

Junior

Resanding the dust just burnishes and hardens things, doesn't it? Especially tough to control the dust on forms with inward-sloping rims, where it doesn't tumble out. The thread on dust blowers recently concluded is one solution. For me an aquarium pump and some tubing wire-tied to the handle would probably suffice. Enough to get things moving, but not enough to spread 'em around much. I sand in and out and carry the dust to the air. Those sanding sponges held with hemostats as Rob mentioned work great for this if you don't have another device.

Hint - don't use a straight tube to blow the sawdust out of a hollowed form, bend it 90 degrees. DAMHIKT

Thanks for the tip, Gerald. I'll use it.

Hint: If you ever blow the dust out with your breath, don't inhale with the straw inside like I did only once. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Ohh Arch you have to remind me, ...................many years ago

Neighbor boys 2 doors down from us had this thing going for a while, take a straw and stick it into the backend of a frog and blow them up, they found it funny when those frogs were trying to dive down and couldn't make it, then one time one boy didn't have quite enough air, and yes you already guessed it, inhaled through the straw, wasn't exactly air, and it also was the end of their game.

Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo

Arch wrote:

The forceps work well for holding sandpaper HOWEVER... TAPE OVER THE FINGER LOOPS! Keep your fingers OUT of those loops. A catch of any kind with your fingers in the loops would NOT be pleasant!!! (No, it hasn't happened to me...And I don't intend it to, either!)

Matt Heffron Inland Woodturners