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Mike OMelia
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Anybody know of one. Even my smallest is too unwieldy in the waist area.

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How about a scraper?

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I can do almost everything with a 5" ROS, but by hand you can wrap sandpaper around a piece of thick PVC, and that works well...or you can get one of those tube sanders that you put into your cordless drill. I have one of those, and it's terrific. Mine came from grizzly.

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Yeah, what Bill said....those "tube sanders" or whatever the heck they are really called....boy do they work wonders!

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Mike OMelia
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Some of yoose guys are funny guys. Might try the 9 volt idea.

Seriously! This is a need needing filling. I know dremel makes a contour sander. But not up to this task. I am thinking about attaching a sponge that has been rounded to my palm sander (looks like a small iron) and mounting sandpaper to that. And before you purists go knocking me, throw your table saw in the trash... I don't have one of those (yet).

Actually, I thought a spindle sander might be right, but I have changed my mind. Not for a super smooth finish.

Mike ;)
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Bill Greene wrote:
...or you can get one of those tube sanders that you put into your cordless drill. I have one of those, and it's terrific. Mine came from grizzly.


TODAY is my birthday...and the wife got me the 7" long one! bliss

You can get the sandpaper sleeves down to 320 grit. Once I've used up a sleeve, I'm going to wrap it with velcro tape, then I'll be able to stick ROS discs and Abralon pads on it that'll get me down to 4000 grit. [:Y:]

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I've got the tube sander, but I find that using a scraper followed by final sanding with the "sandpaper wrapped around a cork wrapped dowel" works the best for me. I like the fine control possible when sanding by hand.

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