Need a little help from you guys

[shipahoy41]

So none of this counts to my living and if I quit tomorrow I would actually make more money in my pocket just going fishing, LOL!


Skip

That, my friend, is so true!

[AtticaFish]

...Maybe Drimel makes something I can use with that other piece I have never used and I think some have used that thing with some kind of speed control which would help a lot I think....

WHAT??? Ya kinda lost me there.....



How bout a rock tumbler, will polish anything under the sun! At least I tried it on anything that would fit in the hole when I was a bit younger.

Here's a thought..... I've done this @ work on some repetetive (sp?) jobs for rounding corners on plastic signs. Lock a variable speen drill into a bench vise, use a pipe wrench on the trigger and tighten it up till the drill is running at the speed you want. I used a stone grinder to eat away the plastic, but would guess you have alot more bit insert (and speed) options on a norm. drill. And if one is sitting around somewhere.........

[Jubs]

The scotch brite pads I believe are grit rated I can't remember what the reddish brown ones are rated at but they make a version of them to attach on your dremel as well. They go on the arbor attachment like the cut off wheels. They don't last too long on harder metals but they do a great job. I have used them on aluminum and steel with great success.

Heres a link they have built in arbors.

[brimreaper]

Skip I don't know if this would work for you or not but reloaders use a little devive to clean fired brass cases with that works by vibration and different additives that you pour in a plastic bowl that has a motor on the bottom that makes it vibrate. It will polish most anything that you might want to put in there and the cost is not very much. You use corn cob or walnut shell pieces to polish and you add jewelers rouge to increase the grit as needed. You basically pour in the stuff you want to polish pour in the polish media turn the thing on and go do something else for a while till it's finished. You can also buy a little separator to strain your polishing media from your product so you can reuse the media over and over again to further reduce your cost of operation. Midway reloading products sells these things and they have a huge website you can go to and look at them to see if it might be what you are looking for. Hope this helps.......brim

[skiptomylu]

The scotch brite pads I believe are grit rated I can't remember what the reddish brown ones are rated at but they make a version of them to attach on your dremel as well. They go on the arbor attachment like the cut off wheels. They don't last too long on harder metals but they do a great job. I have used them on aluminum and steel with great success.

Heres a link they have built in arbors.

Looks very promising for sure. Thanks to everyone trying to help and I am going to give this a try, after all it will only cost me about $26 to find out, LOL!

Thanks,
Skip

[skiptomylu]

WHAT??? Ya kinda lost me there.....



How bout a rock tumbler, will polish anything under the sun! At least I tried it on anything that would fit in the hole when I was a bit younger.

Here's a thought..... I've done this @ work on some repetetive (sp?) jobs for rounding corners on plastic signs. Lock a variable speen drill into a bench vise, use a pipe wrench on the trigger and tighten it up till the drill is running at the speed you want. I used a stone grinder to eat away the plastic, but would guess you have alot more bit insert (and speed) options on a norm. drill. And if one is sitting around somewhere.........

I couldn't think of flex shaft when I posted that. I think there is a way to use that flex shaft and make it a variable speed, but not positive.

Skip

[skiptomylu]

Just found out Dremel has a new rotary tool out that I may just get. It is a variable speed Dremel that has a dial for the speed. Not cheap by any means, but wow what a great looking tool. I think that my flex attachment will also fit right on that.

Skip

[ShilohRed]

Just get a small belt sander they make a small one that only has a 1" belt.. It works and just touch the lead to to and its gone. But be warned. This is bad for your health. AS then you have lead dust in the air and your lungs..
I'm setting up a table with an over head vent. To take all the bad stuff out that I can from Pouring and painting and cleaning up jigs.
pete

[Redman]

Skip: I had to do this all the time when I use to work. 3 M made a bunch of wheels that took care of this problem for us most of the time. Most were fine grit 400 and 600. they came to us 4 inches in diameter. They were mounted on a old polishing machine like what the jewelers use. The rest of the time we used a magnetic tumbler. Every thing that we put in there came out looking like it had been hand polished. We also had a set of abrasive wheel that went in a foredom flex shaft. They were 7/8 inch in diameter and came in any grit you wanted. from 80 to 1600 and now I see they even have one at 2000. They have square edge and knife edge even points.

So don't work any harder that you have to. So don't let that arthurius get the best of you. Let me know if I can help.

[skiptomylu]

Just get a small belt sander they make a small one that only has a 1" belt.. It works and just touch the lead to to and its gone. But be warned. This is bad for your health. AS then you have lead dust in the air and your lungs..
I'm setting up a table with an over head vent. To take all the bad stuff out that I can from Pouring and painting and cleaning up jigs.
pete

Guess I better start using one of the little mask huh?

I am getting the new variable speed Dremel and it has a dial to set what ever speed you want from nothing up to 35,000 RPM and I already have the thing that will hold it in place and the flex shaft so should be good to go. I got an order for 50 dozen and just couldn't see (ding all at one time) using a file or the little wheels I have been using on my old Dremel that throws the little wire pieces all over the place.

Thanks,
Skip