Best Belt Sanders

Not everyone knows that brushing is a special surface treatment aimed at fashioning the surface into the one having an exclusive appearance and making a unique impression. This treatment accentuates the wood fibers and makes surfaces look more aged. Nowadays the antiquing treatment of floorings, furniture, and other wood articles is relevant and popular. This article contains a few hints on how to perform an antiquing brushing of parquetry or wood flooring by yourself. First, you need to clean the surface from all paints and varnishes, fortunately, the performance of Makita 9403 handheld belt sander suffices for doing it quickly and in a quality manner. After the cleaning, you will need to clean the surface off the dust and waste resulting from the treatment. The next step is actually the brushing of your floor or parquetry. To perform the brushing you will need a brush sander that is equippable with brushes of different hardness. Depending on the wood roughness you may need a different scale of treatment. At the first stage, you need to remove soft wood fibers with a rough brush to accentuate the entire fiber structure, which has been forming in the bulk of wood during the years. This kind of brushing will bring the wood material more relief and protrusions. Each consequent treatment is to be performed with a brush softer than before. The final treatment with a No 120 brush allows you to achieve a perfect surface finish and complete the brushing. The final stage of antiquing is toning, which means covering the surface with a varnish. A varnish coating can make your parquetry look more intense and give it a bigger depth of treatment. Thus, after the lacquering, you will be able to enjoy a new “aged” look of your parquetry.

For organized and convenient transportation of your tools and a belt sander you can purchase this Makita interlocking case.

The unique feature of WEN 6502 design lies in its dual operation as either a belt sander or a disc sander with a grinding disc rotating around its axis. At large, disc sanders are used for grinding or a precision turning of various materials. The WEN 6502 wide belt sander uses a 4.3А electric motor capable of accelerating the 6" grinding wheel to 3450 RPM; at such speed the disc allows you to round edges, remove burrs and machine small parts quickly and with a high quality. Owing to its versatility and power this 2-in-1 rigid belt sander will work fine for those people who do the woodworking professionally or an amateur handyman. Buying the WEN 6502 belt sander will let you save storage space and money as you will not need to purchase two separate sanders. The miter gauge placed on the support table, which can be attached to both belt and disc sander variations offers 0 to 45° beveling capabilities that permit sanding and grinding of material at any angle within this range as well as trimming.

We recommend using protective goggles when working with power tools.

Wooden flooring is a home environment element that plays a key role in preserving your health and the health of your family that is why replacing wooden floor elements or reflooring should not last long when making renovation to the premises. The modern technologies allow renovating your wooden floors by your own using some power tools. In this paragraph, we will tell you how to polish floors with a belt sander. Thus for polishing the floors you will need to arm yourself with a belt sander and belts of different roughness. The first stage of the floors renovation implies a rough polishing aimed at removing paint coating and varnish if there are any or at removing a worn out upper layer of wood. This procedure is performed using the 40 grit sand paper. The procedure may be repeated in case of getting an unsatisfying result after the first time but no more than four times as the main purpose of a 40 grit sand paper is to clean the floor off dirt and irregularities. At the next stage, you need to do a floor polishing with 60 grit and 80 grit sand paper to get rid of the remaining scratches. The finishing touch is a polishing with a 120 grit sand paper to achieve a perfectly smooth and accomplished surface. For the places that can not be treated even with this belt sander by Black & Decker, you can use a hand scraper.

To be sure of always being able of plugging your belt sander into the nearest power socket we recommend purchasing an extension cord.

Founded in 1910 the Japanese giant has 1100 affiliated companies, which operate in 11 business areas ranging from the manufacture of small electric devices to big railroad and construction systems. The first company branch that specialized in power equipment and tools manufacture in 1948 was Hitachi Koki Cо. As of today, the Hitachi company produces power tools of numerous types, including gas chainsaws, electric drills, woodworking tools. In addition, on March 1, 2016, Hitachi KoKi acquired the Metabo, German power tools manufacturing company. That is the reason why Hitachi is one of the manufacturers of the most reliable power tools for the moment backing this statement with a 5 year warranty for its tools.

The sanding belt pack containing various abrasive grit belts will definitely be of use for those who operate a belt sander.

The main element you need to decide on when sanding surfaces with a belt sander is an abrasive material, which is made of sand paper. That is why we decided to give some consideration to the history of sand paper development. Despite the fact that the batch manufacturing of sand paper was patented by Isaac Fisher JR in the USA in 1834 the first documented case of grit paper use relates to the 13th  century in China. The first sand paper was made of shellfish shells, sand and seeds, which were glued to a paper with an ordinary glue. By 18th century John Oakey has launched mass production of sand paper made of sand and ground glass, that time this product was called a glass paper. Today there is a whole range of abrasive materials used in sand paper manufacture for sanding different surfaces: alundum, silicone carbide, diamonds, cubic boron nitride, garnet.

For protecting your respiratory tract from dust when working without a vacuum cleaner it is recommended to purchase a respirator.