{"id":84,"date":"2009-01-31T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T23:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patpruitt.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-01-31T19:46:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T23:46:50","slug":"hot-rodding-the-wolf-sander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/2009\/01\/31\/hot-rodding-the-wolf-sander\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rodding the Wolf Sander"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true, Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil, Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet, All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, So there was only one thing that I could do…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Jesus built my Hotrod – Ministry<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yep, you got it, less than 48 hours after giving this thing a good run for its money, I went in under the hood and started the modding.<\/p>\n

New, quick change, contact wheels in 1\/2″, 3\/4″, 1″, and 1.135″ (60mm) stock wheel size.<\/p>\n

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Repositioned tension arm (10mm reamer required for this mod).\u00a0 Moved over and down to accommodate a new, longer, tension arm, this is important in using the tiny contact wheels, including the stock diameter wheel, flat sanding plate, and still be able to tension the belt.\u00a0 I also had to remove a better portion of the cutout for the arm clearance.<\/p>\n

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Why you ask?\u00a0 Well, the Wolf sander is a cool tool, but I needed more out of it.\u00a0 Namely the smaller contact wheels.\u00a0 That was the easy part.\u00a0 The business end of the Wolf sander had a cool little stem sticking out where the old contact wheel attached.<\/p>\n

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Using this as the base, new contact wheels were fabricated, and wouldn’t you know it, laying around in the shop were some 4mm socket set screws that were perfect for this job.\u00a0 Bore a hole that is tight fitting on the stem, then tap for the appropriate set screw.<\/p>\n

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Now the contact wheels simply screw on and off, seating down on the flat of the drive mechanism…pretty keen.<\/p>\n

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With all the new contact wheels made, here’s how they all look, sorry for the redundancy in photos.\u00a0 You can see how the tension wheel accommodates the different wheels nicely.<\/p>\n

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1\/2″ contact wheel.<\/p>\n

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3\/4″ contact wheel<\/p>\n

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1″ contact wheel<\/p>\n

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Remade stock contact wheel. 1.135″, with flat plate installed.\u00a0 The flat plate can only be used with the stock diameter wheel due to the path of the belt.<\/p>\n

NOW I can get into those tiny radii on the parts im working on.<\/p>\n

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Quite a few hours to do the modifications will save me gobs of time down the road, I am so glad this was possible with this sander…<\/p>\n

One other modification I made was to the flat plate itself, knocking off the square edge at the leading edge of where the belt hits quiets it down a hair, and saves on that edge beating up on the splice tape on the belt.\u00a0 A thing to note, the flat plate is not truly flat due to the punching process used to make it, that will be fixed shortly.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, now im super stoked with this tool…..The last and only thing I can think of to make this the best tool on the planet is to build an extension arm for the top idle wheel, extend that out further so one can use a more common belt size, say a 1″x30″ or 1″x42″ belt.\u00a0 Dollar for dollar, the longer belts are still in the $2 range, but your getting 3x to 4x the abrasive.\u00a0 More abrasive = longer belt life.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy,
\nP@
\n www.patpruitt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true, Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil, Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet, All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world, So there was only one thing that I could do…” Jesus built my Hotrod – Ministry Yep, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/patpruitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}