01-01-2020, 01:37 PM
Yup. You want the blue, very fine, SB belts. See the chart below. When the belt is new, breaking it in is necessary or they are to aggressive for deburring knife edges. Please see the following post:
http://bessex.com/forum/showthread.php?t...47#pid5047
In the post you are taken to by following the link in the post above, I was on the fence about SB for deburring, but that was years ago and I suspect I had not broken in the belt. SB works great for deburring. Use a very light touch with the SB when deburring. It takes almost no pressure against the belt for the SB to do its deburring job. Too much pressure can dull the edge.
The grey, super fine, may work too but I have not tried it.
You didn't waste $15 on the medium belt! SB belts, generically called surface conditioning belts, are handy for a variety of tasks like rust removal and surface smoothing. For me the coolest thing they do is to put a beautiful satin finish on metal. Run some metal like an old piece of pipe against the open area of the belt and check out the beautiful satin finish it produces. Then do it against the platen just for fun. That satin finish not only looks cool but is fingerprint resistant. SB belts are useful and fun. I have all the colors.
A sharp mower blade cuts grass. A dull one bashes the blades of grass in half. Mow the lawn and then get down on hands and knees as though you were grazing. Examine the ends of the blades of grass. If the grass was cut with a sharp mower blade the ends of the blades of grass are cut neatly and smoothly as though snipped off with scissors. If the mower was dull then tops of the blades of grass are ugly, jagged, ripped, tortured, and bashed in half. So, be kind to your poor grass plants and use a sharp blade. After all, unlike dandelions they can't duck or get up and run away when they see the mower coming!
http://bessex.com/forum/showthread.php?t...47#pid5047
In the post you are taken to by following the link in the post above, I was on the fence about SB for deburring, but that was years ago and I suspect I had not broken in the belt. SB works great for deburring. Use a very light touch with the SB when deburring. It takes almost no pressure against the belt for the SB to do its deburring job. Too much pressure can dull the edge.
The grey, super fine, may work too but I have not tried it.
You didn't waste $15 on the medium belt! SB belts, generically called surface conditioning belts, are handy for a variety of tasks like rust removal and surface smoothing. For me the coolest thing they do is to put a beautiful satin finish on metal. Run some metal like an old piece of pipe against the open area of the belt and check out the beautiful satin finish it produces. Then do it against the platen just for fun. That satin finish not only looks cool but is fingerprint resistant. SB belts are useful and fun. I have all the colors.
A sharp mower blade cuts grass. A dull one bashes the blades of grass in half. Mow the lawn and then get down on hands and knees as though you were grazing. Examine the ends of the blades of grass. If the grass was cut with a sharp mower blade the ends of the blades of grass are cut neatly and smoothly as though snipped off with scissors. If the mower was dull then tops of the blades of grass are ugly, jagged, ripped, tortured, and bashed in half. So, be kind to your poor grass plants and use a sharp blade. After all, unlike dandelions they can't duck or get up and run away when they see the mower coming!