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Old 06-15-2016, 05:04 PM
jimmontg jimmontg is offline
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Thanx for the update. Another web site for my "Other Favorites"

Well Jared, there are some of your options at $300. The Jiffy by the way was developed for the HF 4x36 sander. If you just want to spend $300 you can get the Jiffy or the 2x42 from Sears and over a hundred dollars in belts. Does the Sears 2x42 have a soft contact wheel Hunter? If it does I would go that way until you can save up for a big sander.
I personally love the 2x48 Kalamazoo as they had them where I used to work and they are great medium sized grinders although on the low power end, but it was never an issue as I used to grind knives after work on them with zirconia belts. USA Knifemakers has a free tutorial on which belt to use for different materials and situations you might find very useful. Like zirconia belts for underpowered machines and ceramics are even better. You want to make me mad just use my zirconia belts on wood.

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