Have finally decided to buy a tool! The excitement in the house is almost tangible, by me anyway, wife’s less impressed.
So should it be the Clarke Hitachi planer or a Makita 9227CB sander polisher?
I’m pretty set on the Makita as most of what I do at present is repairs. Has anyone out there any experience of this machine or would reccomend something else?
Will it sand back glass adequately for a repair? As a polisher it sounds good.
Any input appreciated
Rik
The Makita should work for sanding and polishing as it has a speed dial to control the rpm speed. I wouldn’t use it for shaping unless you’re doing some wood compsand sort of thing.
That Makita is the UK standard surfboard sander. The shaper I know tried a few cheaper ones and none lasted or had the variable speed control. With the powerpads from Homeblown or Seabase (or homemade) plus thread adapter (probably) and a selection of Rhynalox Plus Abrasive paper you are set up for any kind of sanding of boards. Not done any polishing of boards or really watched it being done but the same tool is used. There are a couple of new cheaper sander/polishers that I haven’t any info on at transtools.co.uk (silverline and a spear and jackson)
Mark
Howzit Rikds, I have owned and used the makita grinder for over 10 years and they are a great machine and very durable. Have 2 of them and have only had to put brushes and a new cord on 1 and have not had to do anything to the other. They usually cost around $250 but if you go to the amazon website you can get one for $200 with free shipping. I am adding the website link for amazon. Aloha and happy sanding,Kokua
Hi Kokua,
Thanks for that, looks like the beast for me. Just Goole Earthed your home, that is one amazing looking place to live.
Cheers
Howzit Rikds, What kind of info do you input to Google Earth to find my house. Never used it so I am in the dark.Aloha,Kokua
Hi Kokua
I just punched Hanalei into Google /maps/satellite and zoomed in. It am really amazing. I guess Google is a US company and gets its maps from some surveillance satellites. The image will zoom in pretty close, you can see the cars in the park very clearly. I suppose it’s a bit scarey. Where I live is obviously less interesting to the US as one cannot zoom in so close, but our coats still looks great.
Try this link, it should work.
cheers
Rik
Howzit Rikds, What a kick, I found my house and could even see the truck in the driveway.Aloha,Kokua
I recently purchased this one from Porter Cable: 
A nice feature is that the trigger allows you a zero to whatever max RPM your thumbdial is set at. Reasonably priced and PC makes good, reliable tools.
Howzit Rikds, What a kick, I found my house and could even see the truck in the driveway.Aloha,Kokua
right on, kokua…the pic of my house has me pulling my car out of the driveway – half in and half out – wild!
Have finally decided to buy a tool! The excitement in the house is almost tangible, by me anyway, wife’s less impressed…
I’m pretty set on the Makita …
Will it sand back glass adequately for a repair? As a polisher it sounds good.
Any input appreciated
Rik
My wife is usually only impressed if I tell her what I plan to do with the tool. No, no, you filthy minded fiends, I’m talking about house repairs :-> Anyway, I just finished repairing both pins on a Kane Garden LM fish, filling and glassing one pin and sanding down and resealing a existing (mediocre) glassed repair job on the other. I used a Ryobi cordless right-angle drill that I equipped with a pad and sticky sanding disks. It was more than adequate for the job (though I’d pass on using it to sand a complete glass job). If that can do the job, surely the Makita will have no problem whatsoever. If you were asking about removing old glass, it also did that adequately, but I suspect the magic for that requirement is more in the grit than the tool… If you are wondering (& even if not:-), the main reason I chose the Ryobi (well, in addition to the low cost) was that I figure I can throw it in my truck, drag it to the beach, and use it and UV resin to do minimal muss ‘n’ fuss repairs on site when needed.
-Samiam
Hi Kokua
I just punched Hanalei into Google /maps/satellite and zoomed in. It am really amazing. I guess Google is a US company and gets its maps from some surveillance satellites. The image will zoom in pretty close, you can see the cars in the park very clearly. I suppose it’s a bit scarey. Where I live is obviously less interesting to the US as one cannot zoom in so close, but our coats still looks great.
Try this link, it should work.
cheers
Rik
Not sure where Google has its corporate HQ, but I believe its two founders are European (Sergei Brin and his buddy, uh, Mumble Mumble). I believe GE buys commercial sat photos (of course, some of those might originally been military and since declassified). The resolution varies widely from sector to sector: in one place it may be quite detailed, but a few miles away might show only vague blobs of color. The currency of the images also varies, some are very recent, some may be 3 years old or more. If you select the DigitalGlobe Coverage option(s) in the Layers pane, it will date the photo images right on the map.
-Samiam
Rkids,
I’m a little late on this.
I have that Makita sander/polisher. I really, really like it. I do repairs and like the fact that it’s fairly light for it’s power. The electric speed controller is nice too. Very steady speed even with varying sanding pressure.
Nice little thread, thanks for the input everybody, I buy the beast today.
Fun stuff with the google maps as well. Much as I love where I live, some of you Swaylockers live in what appear to be really magical places.
Cymru am byth, hwyl am nawr
Rik
Hi Rik,
Coming on this one late -
If they have 'em, you’ll also want a foam pad for the beastie, under the sandpaper. Or else see the Archives for how to make 'em. The flat and relatively hard rubber pads are not a whole lot of use -
hope that’s of use, however
doc…
Hi Rik,
The flat and relatively hard rubber pads are not a whole lot of use -
hope that’s of use, however
doc…
Heh- there are, of course, exceptions. Though I’ll note those two milwaukees on the shelf in the background, bet they have foam pads on 'em.
By the way, is that an old Black and Decker? I spent a winter grinding boat paint with one very similar…
doc…
Heh- there are, of course, exceptions. Though I’ll note those two milwaukees on the shelf in the background, bet they have foam pads on 'em.
By the way, is that an old Black and Decker? I spent a winter grinding boat paint with one very similar…
doc…
it’s good to hear your voice doc.
You too, man. It’s nice to be back and all my parts,working more or less.
Oh, and you’d love the 2 speed B&D ( Black and Decker, for those who might read something else into this…and yes, Ben, that was you ) sander/polisher I just snagged out of a scrap heap. Weird two stage trigger and a very non-standard setup on the arbor. More when I get ambitious…
doc…