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i've decided to buy a hand crank mitre disc sander. i need some distributors to check out. any ideas?
 
M&M Distibutors in Tennent, N.J., sells ITW/AMP miter sander (Which I have, and like very much).
Tel.800-526-2302
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United Mfgs in Syosset, N.Y or Boca Raton, Fl, sells a Barton miter sander (not familiar with this one).
Tel.800-645-7260

Good luck,
-Mike.
 
I bought the AMP at the Expo from

Johnny Wegeman
J&W Specialties, Inc.
231 White Oak Circle
Maitland, FL 32751
407 645-5334

The show special was $450 which was an especially good deal since I was driving and took it with me to save the shipping. (These things weigh at least 50 pounds.) That didn't seem like such a great deal while I was lugging it up and down escalators and over the three-mile trek to my van, though. (Probably 50 yards, as the crow flies.)

Give Johnny a call. Maybe he's still honoring the show special.
 
Originally posted by Ron_Eggers:
I bought the AMP at the Expo from

Johnny Wegeman
J&W Specialties, Inc.
231 White Oak Circle
Maitland, FL 32751
407 645-5334

The show special was $450 which was an especially good deal since I was driving and took it with me to save the shipping. (These things weigh at least 50 pounds.) That didn't seem like such a great deal while I was lugging it up and down escalators and over the three-mile trek to my van, though. (Probably 50 yards, as the crow flies.)

Give Johnny a call. Maybe he's still honoring the show special.
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And I sweated every step of the way for poor Ron! (Bad back and all that, you know.)

Poor li'l guy really had his knickers in a knot by the time we found his van.

FGII
 
We have one of the crank kind. We love it. It is the most wonderful thing. I often wish we had an electric one, but you could take off too much so easily with it. Sometimes it only takes one crank. I don't remember what kind it is. I think I saw an IAW or something on it. It has a dark blue base. I'm sure it came from M & M. I'll check it out tomorrow.

Tom & Ron next year take one of your rolling suitcases with you on the trade show floor. Then you can really load up. ;)
 
Originally posted by Ron_Eggers:
I bought the AMP at the Expo from

Johnny Wegeman
J&W Specialties, Inc.
231 White Oak Circle
Maitland, FL 32751
407 645-5334

The show special was $450 which was an especially good deal since I was driving and took it with me to save the shipping. (These things weigh at least 50 pounds.) That didn't seem like such a great deal while I was lugging it up and down escalators and over the three-mile trek to my van, though. (Probably 50 yards, as the crow flies.)

Give Johnny a call. Maybe he's still honoring the show special.
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The sander Ron picked up is the same one that I have used for a few years now. I love it and would recommend it to anyone!

The guy he purchased it from is one of the nicest vendors that I encountered in Atlanta. He had the best deal on them too. Give him a call, You won't be sorry.

Mark
 
I love my Barton mitre sander. I bought it at the Atlanta show two years ago and I wonder how I ever lived without it! I order chops and most of them are fine, but some of them just need a little sanding to make them perfect.
 
I know this is not the correct place, but you can buy the 12" elect sander for about $100 and have/ or make a 45" over lay for the slide. We have been using one for about four years and it works wonders. Its attached to our vac system so there is no dust. Our unit came from a company called "Railway Salvage", but it was a new product---if you want the address--we will e-mail.
 
I don't have William's delicate touch and when I used my electric disc sander to correct a mitre recently. I thought I had removed a little burr and actually took off 1/4". That's when I decided to look at the manual sanders.
 
I have a Framesquare saw, and normally don't have much problem with the miters, but it does leave "fuzzies" that have to be sanded off. Does anyone know if a mitre sander will remove these?
 
Certainly it will, Leslie, and without the risk of slightly rounded edges that you get from hand-sanding. You probably want a manual disk sander, though, so you don't take off more than you want.

<strike>I guess it would be crude of me to suggest you just take it all off.</strike>

Sorry, I forgot myself for a moment.
 
Ah, Ron,
A day without innuendo is no day at all...however since you have never actually seen me, isn't that suggestion a little <strike>risque</strike> risky?

Thanks for the tip on the sander (sigh). Every time I think I'm done spending money on equipment, something else gets added to the wish list...
 
The simplest way to remove the "fuzzies" on the bottom corner of the moulding when cut in a Framesquare saw is the following. Drymount a full sheet of 220 or 240 grit sandpaper to a piece of 1/8" masonite. Simply slide the moulding at a slight angle over the sandpaper and the fuzz is gone.

Alan Sturgess
 
Geez, Alan, why would anyone buy $2.00 worth of sandpaper and Masonite when a $450-$500 sander will work just as well?

Leslie's a Rice grad. She'll do the right thing.
 
Because the sandpaper removes the fuzz and the sander squares the moulding and cleans off the glue when you have misjoined a frame. I would assume that she gets 100% cuts when she cuts on her Framesquare, but what she gets in from her supplier as a chop may be something else.

Alan Sturgess
 
Alan,
I think you gave me this advice once before, and I tried it, but the fuzzies just under the rabbit don't always go away. However, the disc sander may do exactly the same thing, and as Ron pointed out, sandpaper is certainly MUCH cheaper! It does not, however, satisfy my equipment "Jones". :D (For all of you Aussie Grumblers, read: addiction.)
 
We sell both the AMP and the Barton. Both are great pieces of equipment. I like the control on the AMP and the fact that you can use all of the disc on the Barton. What's amazing is they are about the same price, with or without the motor.
 
We use fingernail emory boards to take care of the FrameSquare fuzzies. The "tongue depressor" sized emory boards from UNITED also do a good job and seem to last forever.

Our experience with the ITW/AMP for trueing up vendor chops has been very good.
 
I've always used a razor blade, takes about 5 seconds. Chops are so bad out of LJ (Toronto) we have to order them 1" longer and re-cut (when we need overnight shipping or that elusive 10.5 foot length on expensive moulding that we get 26 feet instead!) LJ said they needed to change their saw blades over a year ago, obviously they never got around to it.
 
Order that sander yet, spilco?

I set mine up the other day and calibrated it. While I was at it, I put a new blade on my saw and calibrated that, too. (I use a 10" radial saw with a Barton mitre attachment.)

This morning I cut some frames. I did some informal tests on some "scrap" mouldings, sanding some with the AMP sander and joining some unsanded. The unsanded corners looked very good - the kind of corners I've been happy with and the kind I hope to get from my chop vendors. The sanded corners from the same mouldings looked nearly seamless.

I bought the sander to fix imperfect mitres. I see now it can be used to make perfect mitres even more perfect. I know some of you are getting outstanding corners without a sander - Framerguy, for example. (I've seen his frames.) For the rest of us, a sander is heaven-sent.
 
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