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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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Wes McMillian
Santo, TX
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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

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

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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80

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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.