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| Author: | Wes McMillian [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:55 am ] |
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I'm replacing the first belt on my Delta and was curious what grit y'all tend to use most. Seems I recall some who use an extremely coarse grit (36-50 or so?) for thicknessing and finish off with a ROS. The belt that was on when I got it was 80 grit. Guess belts are easy enough to change on the Delta, I could easily swap grits, though. So what do you use? |
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| Author: | JohnAbercrombie [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:05 am ] |
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Wes- Not a Delta, but I use 60 on my homebuilt most of the time. If it's time to change abrasives anyway, I'll switch to a finer grit (100) for tops. Cheers John |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:28 am ] |
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Depends on the task. Lets say i am thicknessing boards to make up a lamination for a neck blank. Depending on how much removal was needed for clean up I use 60 to get close then 80 to finish off. Now lets say I am thicknessing a spruce to from .18" and going to .110" i would take it down to .125" with 80 then final with 120. So you see it depends on the task |
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| Author: | FishtownMike [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:06 am ] |
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I have been using 80 all the time but i think i'm gonna get some 40 or 60's for certain hardwoods and 120 for softwoods |
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| Author: | Bill Greene [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:22 am ] |
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80 |
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| Author: | Hesh [ Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:35 am ] |
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I use 80 for hardwoods and 120 for softwoods. The 80 grit loads up with BRW so I want to get something more aggressive. |
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