Thread: New 1/2" sanding mandrel tutorial.

A while ago I posted a thread on how to make sanding drums for the 1/2" rotary tool sanding mandrel. I have since refined my method of creating them to produce more at once and constructing them to be less prone to catching and edge or fraying. The instructions to do so were given in a very abridged form at the end of the thread, but, I figured I'd write another tutorial for those who want to know

Anyway here is the tutorial. Enjoy

Good stuff. Thanks.

Many thanks for sharing this!

Great info Jason. I will give the home made sleves a try. I can see that they will be much cheaper and I will get a wider assortment of grits and abrasives.

BTW, your sleeves look factory made. I think that it will take me a while before mine come out that good and that easy. Your results are very encouraging.

Thanks Jason. I'll probably follow your lead on the tape as I didn't have much adhesion with Scotch.

This is an excellent presentation and the information is very useful for the do-it-yourselfer who does not have all the fancy equipment. Very good job.

Nice one! I read both your tutorials and they rule!

I was at the Dremel stand at Walmarts, the other day and I was thinking to myself...

"Why don't they have those little sanding drums in the finer grits that you need for razor blade restoration???.... "

My next thought was...

"Geesh, those little sleeves are'nt cheap, I wonder how many you go through restoring one razor?"

Thanks for passing on a really brilliant, useful, piece of information...

I've been gathering together my arsenal of razor fixing tools, and your gizmo is a perfect and totally essential, necessary adaptation & application of using the Dremel tool for razor restoration.


Tony

Two years later from the last post.. +1 for me too! 😬

Same here: re-up PLEASE

Let me see if I can remember how this is done.
1. Take a sheet of sandpaper and cut a strip 1.57 inches wide
2. Take a 1/2 inch diameter rod (I think he used an acrylic rod) and lube it up with wd-40 or some other light oil
3. Wrap packing tape with the sticky side out around the length of the rod spiraling downward in a clockwise direction.
4. Stick sandpaper to tape.
5. Roll sandpapered rod in between your hands to make sure that the sandpaper is stuck to the tape.
6. Pull sandpaper tube off of 1/2 inch rod (now you know why you lube the rod up)
7. Cut the tube into lengths that you need.

I've had good luck doing this with fabric based carpet tape, but switched over to just making 1/2 inch cardboard tubes and contact cement the sandpaper to the tube.