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Free sanding pads?

On a service call tonight (commercial refrigeration) had to move 30 old boxes of floor buffing pads to reach the refrigeration unit in the back room. Each box I picked up to throw out of the way...a couple of pads about

3-4" in diameter(I didn't measure them) and 1-1/4 or so thick fell out on the ground. I am working on the unit when it hits me "they throw the center piece out of the buffing pads away" and all I can think of is: can I use these to sand or buff items on the lathe? Might even work for Darrell Feltman's, make your own sanding pads. Work is killing me right now and I doubt I will make it to the shop for a couple of weeks to do any turning. When I do, I will report on them. Meanwhile: What say ye about buffing pad centers? There has to be a million a day going into the dumpster! Lyndell
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Lyndell Thompson
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is the 1 1/4" thick part ONE center, or a stack of them?

mac

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mac davis

Perhaps you could set up a company that already sells abrasives to turners with this source of discs, if they work out well. Not a huge market, but people have made fortunes before figuring out how to use what would have been thrown away and was considered a nuisance.

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Lyndell Thompson

Ya don't happen to have a few spares I could 'test' do you? Phil

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robinphil2000

Now if I can conjer up a homebrew drill chuck for these.................. Lyndell

two words DUCT TAPE!

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Ricky Dietsch

Hi Lyndell

Go to Darrell Feltmates web site You will find many good plans and ideas, also for making sanding disks and passive power sander.

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fun and take careLeo Van Der Loo

Lyndell Thomps> Mac, I didn't give very good dimensions last night. The pad centers are

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Leo Van Der Loo

I use a home made sander and hold the disks to the pad with carpet tape..

If they're an inch thick, you could also make a variation of the Dremal screw arbor that they use for thick cloth buffing wheels.. just a screw on the end of the shaft that screws into the back of the pad like a wood screw..

mac

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mac davis

I think I know what your talking about. The centers out of the large floor buffing discs. The ones where I work are black for the heavy stripping pad, red for a little less coarse, and white for a polishing pad. Yeah some people use them like green 3m pads where I work. I don't see why you couldnt use them.

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Chris Ross

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