If you don’t want to watch the video, here the short and sweet on the sander.
HARD PASS, DO NOT BUY.
Without further useless wordage, my thoughts on the unit in question.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
If you don’t want to watch the video, here the short and sweet on the sander.
HARD PASS, DO NOT BUY.
Without further useless wordage, my thoughts on the unit in question.
Phil, I bought the Wen version – same amps & size – sounds like a freight train, but I’ve been very happy with it – $92 on bezos. I’ve had it about 18 months, and use an old rubber soled sandal to clean the grit, so rarely have to change disk or belt. I also have their planer which has also been OK (my setup is less than ideal). Wen been berry good to me.
https://www.amazon.com/WEN-6502T-4-3-Amp-Belt-Sander/dp/B07KL4QGSQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=wen%2Bdisc%2Bsander&s=hi&sr=1-1&th=1
+1 on the Wen. Had mine for two years and still runs well, although not a daily user.
Phil, I’ve no comment on mechanical work except that if you start on more aggressive blood-thinners than aspirin, you’ll have to take more care at work, especially with your hands. No more busted knuckles!
Of course, every time you bump your wrist or elbow you’re going to be leaking red claret, leaving DNA in places you swear that you haven’t been. It’s embarrassing, and then you have to deal with the wound/s, but it’s better than amputation of a leg, or both legs!
I forget who it was that told me to think of chink tools as “kits”. anyway, don’t really buy or need much in the way of tools like that. still have my old Sears 6by 48 belt sander from the late 1960’s did upgrade the motor about 20 years ago though.
Baldor 3/4 hp I got from my buddy who ran a scrap yard.
he used to set aside anything he figured I might want to look over for “parts”.
I would stop by and look at whatever and see if there was anything I might want
picked up a lot of motors for the price of a case of beer ! and other bits of stuff.
problem now is it will remove a lot of skin fast if you not careful !
looking back I wish I had more space to store a lot of the tools/machines that ended up as scrap. sad to say, but we will never see tools like those made in the 1950-60’s again. a shame really.
Doc wanted to give you a script for aspirin? What, they don’t sell that stuff over the counter any more? I swear, doctors these days are idiots.
I have the HF green chinesium version still in sealed box. Why?
Because the first one prior was unpacked and set up. Then on flipping the switch, it did…. NOTHING.
Took it back and they handed me a new one. I had garage sale scrounged a Sears from the 60’s and have been using it non stop as a metal grinder seeing it had the vertical belt setting and the side 8″ disk. Plenty powerful too. Maybe my kids will inherit both so they can toss out the HF with gusto.
On the aspirin/blood thinner thing and cuts etc.
I take 182mg(two baby aspirin) daily. They are coated so that they don’t rot your stomach lining.
I had a little accident with a kitchen knife six or so weeks ago. I stabbed my thumb, all the way to the bone. It took almost an hour and half a box of Kleenex to get the bleeding stopped enough so that I could drive myself to the hospital. They glued the cut shut.
Next morning, I took the bandaid off to change it and the glue came off with the bandaid. Luckily, overnight, the wound had healed enough that it didn’t start bleeding much again, although there was a little drainage.
Little nicks and scrapes bleed like a drip garden hose with rotted rubber. Bump something with an arm or leg hard enough to notice and you’ll have a nice bruise in ten minutes.
On the little nicks and cuts, buy some quick clot impregnated bandaids. They work pretty well after getting the bleeding slowed with pressure. They are available from the big smile. The ones I have are Curad brand. Also get a quick clot kit of larger dressings in case you do some real damage.
I also bought a couple tourniquets to go along with the quick clot stuff, just in case I do some real damage. I have one at home, one in the car and one in my backpack for when I go out in the woods. You can also make a tourniquet from a belt or paracord and a couple of sticks.
My doc’s wanted to put me on Coumadin because I developed AFIB. I asked them if they were also going to prescribe me a syringe of Vit K to counteract the Coumadin, in case I cut myself severely. I got the three headed stare.
If they prescribe Coumadin, know that for the first three months or so, you’ll have to go to a clinic every month for a blood draw to monitor the dose effectiveness, which they may adjust. Then minimally every three to six months separate from other blood work they routinely do. Also, you’ll be told to stop eating green food. What they don’t tell you is the green food contains a lot of Vit K, especially raw green food, which interferes with Coumadin’s anti clotting effect.
They put me on a different powerful blood thinner which I took daily for about a year. One morning in the winter a couple years ago, I blew my nose to clear night time snot build up. I started bleeding out my nose. It took a half hour and another half box of Kleenex to get it stopped. I lost so much blood, I was starting to feel faint. My bathroom floor looked like I had butchered an animal in there.
Blood was literally RUNNING out of both sides of my nose like a faucet had been turned on. Scared the crap out of me. I stopped taking that blood thinner on a regular basis. Now I only take it when I have an AFIB episode, which thankfully, is under pretty good control with several OTHER prescribed drugs.
I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I’m relating my personal experience with certain ailments, drugs and other trauma. YMMV.
Bottom line, make your own decisions on blood thinners and other prescribed drugs after doing your own research. Your doc’s won’t tell you many of the negatives, at least mine didn’t. You have to figure that out for yourself. They’re only covering their asses, going by the “Standard of Care”. Guess who is the major contributor to the “Standard of Care”.
Nemo, get you some Crazy Glue and glue it yourself, it is the same thing they use in hospitals and clinics to glue shut that kind of wound. I do that when I cut myself, why pay some asshole dweeb to do the same.
Thanks Cederq, I’ll do that.
Nemo, if you use it, after putting some in you have to squeeze both sides closed and hold it while the glue sets and it sets a little slower because of it being wet in there. A good post- reset event wound care after wards when a nurse or doc is not available to suture a wound.
Am curious about the oil can. I have one the same color, made in China. It weeps around the bottom seal. Does yours? It was all I could find at the time. Just my luck a week later a buddy told me, “Oh man, I just gave two old ones away!”. I am on the hunt to find an old one made in USA.
yeah. had a few people over the years try to talk/take me out of my old Eagle oil cans. one is made of brass that I cleaned up and used
on my milling machine. a lot of people asked me to sell that one.
I did lend one out one time. never saw it again.
I bought it new last year and haven’t had any leaking issues but the pull handle is made out of aluminum foil and bends constantly.
My advice is to suck it up and buy an old one off of Fleabay.
Everything is crap now.
100% – luckily I stocked up about 10 – 15 years ago – squeeze handles, standard half domes, Eagles, small, medium, and large. I even scored some mini ones designed for sewing machine use – very handy to have at the desk, but tend to leak, so I have carved up some 1″ X 2″ wooden holders to absorb leaks and avoid tip over. You have got to love ‘old school’.