Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Jon: I like the idea of "training and understanding." It takes longer than slapping on a policy, but students learn the why and they learn how to manage their own ri

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Other than being cautious about hair and dangling clothes I never considered the spindle sander to be a very risky tool until a student sanding with a spindle not much smaller than the hole in the ply

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Other than the already in-place guidelines for the spindle sander, which does not differentiate between innies and outies i wasn’t aware there might be some special issues to consider. I kbow the sand

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We handle this mostly with training and understanding rather than strict policy. The problem is most likely to occur when the enclosed area is far from the workpiece's center of mass, when the spindle

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Hi All, I was curious what policies you have in place for your spindle sanders--specifically the sanding of enclosed or mostly-enclosed shapes. If you permit sanding inside enclosed shapes, are there

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I built one. They're a simple machine if you don't insist on power feed or oscillating belts. The frame can be made from timber or steel; I used a piece of an old desktop for the bed, and fitted it wi

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Welcome Trevor! Ted's recommendation is quite interesting in it's limitations being a positive rather than a negative. This can be an interesting parameter to apply to many purchase decisions. As to o

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Hello Trevor, If you’re going to use it for architectural model building I suggest this: http://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/sander5.html It’s small so it will not be good for larger material and it is

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Hi all, wondering what people recommend for drum sanders, as we don't have one in our shop but thought it would be a good addition. We have a nice Felder thickness planer that takes care of all our la

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Ben, Look into Micro Air, www.microaironline.com I was very impressed with Brandon Saner, brandons@... when we met at Safety 2020 in New Orleans. Will be contacting him when we start th

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Ben, Our wood shop is roughly 20' x 25'. We have three AFS-1000 filters (Jet branded) hanging up that have served us well so far (our machines have dedicated dust collectors as well). Having three all

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Hello All, I'm in the process of researching ambient air filtration units for our school's large woodshop and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on commercial units that are currently ava

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