Belt Sander Recommendation

[Paul H (admin)]

Can anyone recommend a brand, size or style of belt sander?

I have to remove a lot of 2 pack paint in awkward areas to glue MilliBee's bridge deck in place. Experience  has taught me its damned hard manually and I'm sure a belt sander will be much quicker and have many uses in the future (also rotary sanders won't reach into the tight corners I have to sand).

3in wide seems like a good compromise for fitting into tight corners, plus lower weight and cost.

Screwfix do a "Titan" brand, cheap and cheerful with what I consider the most important option on any tool...variable speed. Bosch do a DIY version, but it is fixed speed.

thanks
Paul

[David Bewick]

Paul,

I've got a Bosch "blue" one.  It is a very fine tool indeed but, in use, it probably gives me the fastest way to damage a nice piece of wood that I know of if not kept under very tight control.  I think I'd go for a hot air gun and a hand scraper if I had some paint to remove in confined spaces.  

Good luck,

David.

[Timmo]

Hot air gun and scraper sounds good to me for shifting two pack paint, though a belt sander is a useful piece of kit to have. I use a Makita one, like David's it eats wood fast. Would get clogged quick with paint though. Worth having one of those big rubber sanding belt cleaning sticks and using it often.

Know a couple of people who have Titan kit and they reckon they work well enough, no direct experience of the belt sander though. I've a Titan 4kg SDS+ drill. It runs more roughly than more expensive kit but it's quite robust and does its job perfectly well. Might not last as long as a better piece of kit but it only gets occasional use so will probably outlast me!

Tim.



On 10 Jan 2014, at 18:19, David Bewick [via UK HBBR Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> I've got a Bosch "blue" one.  It is a very fine tool indeed but, in use, it probably gives me the fastest way to damage a nice piece of wood that I know of if not kept under very tight control.  I think I'd go for a hot air gun and a hand scraper if I had some paint to remove in confined spaces.  
>
> Good luck,
>
> David.

[Paul H (admin)]

Chaps,

Thanks for the advice. I used a hot air gun and scraper extensively when lowering MilliBee's roof; however the scraper won't remove paint between the wood grain so some sanding becomes necessary.

I have a total area of 10ft by 2ins to strip, hard work by hand. Also some 90 degree external corners need stripping on one edge leaving the adjacent edge painted; a hot air gun is too crude for that task.

Later I need to strip about 10mm of the hull either side of the centreboard case. There is paint inside the case, glass-fibre and epoxy sheathing on the hull and a hot air gun risks too much damage - better to sand a feather edge on the glass-fibre.

The Titan belt sander is £45 with 2 years warranty...so I'll do a mix of hot air gun and belt sanding.

cheers
Paul

[Ratcatcherjohn]

Dewalt D26480

Good evening Paul,

Following a positive feature, a while back,  in our favorite magazine, I acquired one of these.  Whilst it works well, beware of the "belt size", they have you by the itchy bits when it comes to the price of new belts!!   

Cheers    John

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:42:25 -0800
From: [hidden email]
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Belt Sander Recommendation

Chaps,

Thanks for the advice. I used a hot air gun and scrapper extensively when lowering MilliBee's roof; however the scraper won't remove paint between the wood grain so some sanding becomes necessary.

I have a total area of 10ft by 2ins to prepare, hard work by hand. Also some 90 degree external corners need sanding on one edge leaving the adjacent edge painted; a hot air gun is too crude for that task.

Later I need to strip about 10mm of the hull either side of the centreboard case. There is paint inside the case, glass-fibre and epoxy sheathing on the hull and a hot air gun risks too much damage - better to sand a feather edge on the glass-fibre.

The Titan belt sander is £45 with 2 years warranty...so I'll do a mix of hot air gun and belt sanding.

cheers
Paul

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