Belt Sanding Tips Video
Belt Sanding Tips
Hi, I'm Tim Carter and I want to show you how to use a belt sander to take the finish off a piece of furniture or a piece of wood.
The problem I have right now is it is about 47 degrees outside. I wanted to use a chemical stripper, but the instructions say the working temperature should be between 60 and 80 degrees. Well, I have to get the job done, so I am going to treat this the same way you would refinish a hard wood floor.
All a contract does that sands hardwood floors is he just uses his sander with different grits of sandpaper. Let's get started.
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Right now I have 60-grit sandpaper on the belt sander. It's pretty rough and it is going to really good job to make the initial cut through the finish.
Wait!! Before we get started, there is an important tip. If you don't know this, you will probably ruin the piece of furniture. You don't just put the sanding machine down on the surface and hold it in position.
Not only do I have to run the sander back and forth slowly, but I also have to move it in a circular motion. Doing this ensures that you don't cut a line or a pattern in the surface.
Let me show you. Well you can see that it does a great cutting into the finish. In just a matter of seconds, the finish has been removed and it is down to bare wood.
Common Belt Sander Uses:
- sand peach fuzz from recently cleaned wood decks
- sand small patches of hardwood flooring
- sand flat slab doors and large baseboard
- sand any larger flat surface
So now to finish the job, is to do the entire top with that first pass with the 60-grit sand paper. Then go back and do it over with different grit sandpapers - 80 grit, 120 grit, etc. - getting finer each time until the table top is as smooth as a piece of glass.
And that's how you can take a finish off a piece of furniture.
Referenced in the November 20, 2012 AsktheBuilder Newsletter.
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