FULLER Tapered Drills Boxed Set at Woodcraft.com

Japanese Hand Saws And Accessories at Woodcraft.com

Master Carpenter

Grex Air Sander

Happiness is wood chips flying!

2 members like this

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Site AdminPermalink Reply by John Morris on February 18, 2012 at 3:14pm

That is very cool Sue. I love the ease of use and the quickness it appears your able to level the surface. What size is your compressor?

And, when you first posted we could see the video in this post, did something happen, as in did our site mess you up and turn it into a link?

Great job Sue and it was a pleasure to hear your voice! Nice to meet you!

John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

▶ Reply

CarpenterPermalink Reply by Ron Altier on February 18, 2012 at 4:16pm

I have one of those air sanders and have NEVER used it on my lathe. Guess I never thought about it. Glad to see that it works so well, I'll have to try that.

Where I lived in Ohio, we were next to a county that has a huge Amish population and most of they would not use any electricity or electric tools. Therefore, all of their tools were air powered by a gasoline motor driven air compressor. They had tools that I never knew could be air powered. In many ways they were better than electric motor powered.

▶ Reply

Master CarpenterPermalink Reply by SQ on February 18, 2012 at 4:23pm

Thanks John,

When I posted it, I didn't think it was showing, so I deleted it and added it as a link. So it sounds like this might have been my error. I apparently got this in the wrong category as well, and it now doesn't give me the option to delete it and repost it. Think you could move this to the right category. Sorry about the posting mistake. We have a 60 gallon air compressor. This little Grex uses a lot of air. :)

John Morris said:

That is very cool Sue. I love the ease of use and the quickness it appears your able to level the surface. What size is your compressor?

And, when you first posted we could see the video in this post, did something happen, as in did our site mess you up and turn it into a link?

Great job Sue and it was a pleasure to hear your voice! Nice to meet you!

John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

Happiness is wood chips flying!

▶ Reply

Master CarpenterPermalink Reply by SQ on February 18, 2012 at 4:32pm

Ron,

I specifically bought this to use on the lathe and am very happy with it. It's small enough that I can control it with relative ease. The Grex also has two extensions for getting into deeper vessels, but haven't found the extensions necessary yet on any of the bowls I've been making. The bowl in this video is 5 inches deep (outside measure) and the Grex reaches the bottom easily. The sanding grits come in 60 through 800 which is just perfect for bowls. You gotta try it on the lathe. It has saved me so much sanding time.

SQ

Ron Altier said:

I have one of those air sanders and have NEVER used it on my lathe. Guess I never thought about it. Glad to see that it works so well, I'll have to try that.

Where I lived in Ohio, we were next to a county that has a huge Amish population and most of they would not use any electricity or electric tools. Therefore, all of their tools were air powered by a gasoline motor driven air compressor. They had tools that I never knew could be air powered. In many ways they were better than electric motor powered.

Happiness is wood chips flying!

▶ Reply

Forum HostPermalink Reply by Lewis Kauffman on February 18, 2012 at 4:36pm

That sure beats the wave disks on a corded hand drill!

Thanks!

Lew-
Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

▶ Reply

Site AdminPermalink Reply by John Morris on February 18, 2012 at 5:02pm

Per our email SQ I got ya taken care of! And I got your video up and running. When you embed videos, it first may appear as a yellow void, but give it a few seconds for the site to catch up with the video and it will show up shortly.

Great video SQ!

John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

▶ Reply

Master CarpenterPermalink Reply by SQ on February 18, 2012 at 7:15pm

LOL yes it does. It even beats pieces of sand paper which was what I was using before buying this. This is much easier on the fingers and doesn't get hot like strips of sand paper.

Lewis Kauffman said:

That sure beats the wave disks on a corded hand drill!

Thanks!

Lew-
Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Happiness is wood chips flying!

▶ Reply

Site AdminPermalink Reply by John Moody on February 18, 2012 at 7:18pm

I got to get one of those. I have the no air powered one that uses those sanding disc. I think I would really use that.

John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

▶ Reply

JourneymanPermalink Reply by Pauline Brechlin on February 18, 2012 at 9:13pm

Awesome Sue!! TY for sharing :-)

▶ Reply

Master CarpenterPermalink Reply by SQ on February 20, 2012 at 1:26pm

Thanks Pauline.

I actually posted that as an experiment and then it got featured and I couldn't delete it. My first public video and it's a bit rough.

SQ

Pauline Brechlin said:

Awesome Sue!! TY for sharing :-)

Happiness is wood chips flying!

▶ Reply

Site AdminPermalink Reply by John Moody on February 20, 2012 at 6:43pm

you know there could be a woodworking TV show in your future!!!

I even noticed you are wearing your PPE.

John Moody
John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

▶ Reply

CarpenterPermalink Reply by Ron Altier on February 20, 2012 at 7:04pm

When you use it, do you vary the speed with different grit sand paper? When you are fine sanding, what grit do you use and how do you know the speed, those things will fly into the thousands of RPMs quickly.