Missed the 5pm Friday deadline.
I know you are eager to get your kits, but I missed the Friday 5pm Canada Post deadline so I will drop the packages off today but they will not be processed until Monday.
I consistently underestimated the effort for 20 kits. Even simple stuff that takes 3 min per kit results in 1 hour of effort. Now I know :D. Just getting Paypal to print shipping labels took over an hour.
Here are some pics to tie you over until the kit arrives.
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1. Is a close up of the pressure plate and the other tools of the trade. The screwdriver was used to pry the minted disks from the punch, at least it was a screw drive till it snapped from all the effort. The tweezers were used to catch the pried disks. The bar of soap in the background was used to lubricate the outside of the punch and prevent PSA from sticking to the punch. Of course that only worked until 150 grit. Then the PSA would be burned off.
2. The pressure pad with its foot pedal. The thing worked extremely well for something that was strapped together from bits and pieces. The belt sander on the bottom was used as a counter weight to keep the back of the pedal from lifting.
3. What was left behind of the sandpaper sheets after the punching.
4. Picture of all the disks except for 100 grit which were not punched yet when the picture was taken.
5. The boxes ready to go.
6. What you will be getting in a week or two, depending on the postman. I added a close-up, note that the labels for the grits proceed from backmost row to front most row, the label boxes align with the compartments when the lid is closed. So, if you try to take 800 grit disk and it feels a little rough, it is because you grabbed a 100 grit one instead. Don't drop the box and mix up the disks or you will have a hell of a time sorting them out.
This is a before and after picture of the second punch. The shorter one in the before picture is the first punch that I made. It wore through more due to my excessive playing around with the cutting edge than from punching. It was only used to punch 2500, 2000 and 1500 grit.
The second one wore mostly during punching of 150 and 100 grits. It is toast.
http://www.winpte.com/str8/DiskPunch.jpg
Note, that the disks were punched from the PSA side, this cupped the edge a bit, when you put the disk on the carrier just run its edge against something hard for a couple of turns to flatten out the edge. Make sure you do it against something that you don't mind scratching. The 100 and 150 grits rip through wood with devastating speed.
Some of you will be missing a disk from a grit. I found a four disks but could not tell which stack they were from. This was from different grits and different operations so for any one of you to wind up with more than one missing is highly unlikely.
I still have two kits with: no payment for one and no e-mail for the other. I actually underestimated the cost of S&H, budgeted $5, paid $10. So if you changed your mind about getting the kit don't feel bad about it. Just let me know. I'll be greatful because I can sell it on e-bay and make up for the shortfall.
