Someone asked about sanding organization..>>

2/6/05, 8:12 PM #1

RonZ
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Someone asked about sanding organization..>>

RonZ

>..>> The subject quickly scrolled down so I thought I'd post mine here and see if it helps anyone.I took over my girls room and made it to a lathe room. Here in Israel walk in closets are rare so you buy closets kind of like cupboards. I bought a nice new long one for my girls when they got relocated to a larger room and I patched together this six door one. I put the sanding center in the first two door section and used the hanger rods to hang the materials. The top row from left to right is my desperate measure 80 and 100 grit rolls, lots of 0000 steel wool [I use it often], and paper towels or as Chris Stott calls it, kitchen paper. The next row from left to right is 400, 320, 220, 180, and 120 grit paper. The next level down you'll see a piece of plywood and a backsaw. I use the the wood for support and cut using the backsaw as a cutter to about 1.5 - 2" wide strips of sand paper which I keep in small plastic baskets by my lathe. For general sanding, I fold them into thirds for padding and giving me three clean surfaces to use. I put hanger hooks on the doors for my smocks and the plastic drawers you see below help organize my kits.

Thanks for looking and comments are always welcome.

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2/7/05, 5:19 PM #2

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)
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Re: Someone asked about sanding organization..>>

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)

>Hi Ron,

Nice boxes in your other posts.

The reason I am responding to this particular post is to see if you devised a method to keep all of the rolls from turning as you retreive paper from one role. I had a very similar set up but every time I pulled a bit from one roll, all the other rolls also begin to unravel. By the end of a busy day, I have a tangle of ends streaming down. I have tried alternating the direction of the rolls but I end up with the paper of one roll wrapping up the roll of another (typically the roll I want to get to!).

Or is it just me

John

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2/7/05, 6:04 PM #3

RonZ
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>Thanks for the compliment.

You'll notice in the picture that the area blocked by the smocks on the left is vacant space. The pole is in tight and does not turn. What I usually do is slide all the rolls to the left and start with the first one on the right and cut what I need. I slide the right one to the end and then use the next one in line etc. etc.. This way only one is turning at a time and doesn't effect the next one. If I get very busy and I'm in a hurry, it will look like spaghetti inside but not too bad. The only thing I can think of that might be your problem is either the rod going acroos isn't held tight or you've got the papers too close together. If that's not it then you have Murphy in your workshop. =o)

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2/7/05, 7:09 PM #4

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)
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John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)

>My bar did not roll but I didn't incorporate the extra space on the rod for moving one roll away from the next. I never even considered it ... space on a sandpaper bar begs to be filled with another roll of sandpaper, of course. Thanks Ron.

John

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