Converting Floor Buffer To Sander

Pro advice from lenny hall and the nwfa on the do s and don t s of hardwood floor abrasion with buffer pads.

Converting floor buffer to sander.

A drum sander and a floor polisher often called an orbital machine or a buffer. 3 create finish intercoat abrasion. The buffer really is nothing more than a motor on a stick. Sand and refinish your hardwood floors with a converted floor polisher.

107 sandy drive unit 108 newark de 19713 1 833 703 5667. I ve installed a bunch of wood floors for myself and well as professionally and highly recommend a slow speed floor buffer as the way to go. The backing pad is firm enough to keep the buffer cloth in place. Drum sanders are a bear mostly only good for rapid and agressive removal of wood such as would be required to remove all traces of a previously applied stain.

Oreck orbiter multi purpose floor cleaner scrubber sander buffer and polisher orb600mw white handle color may vary 4 3 out of 5 stars 106 296 89 296. There are two common ways to sand floors. I wanted to refinish my rimu new zealand native timber floors but i was doing it in the evenings and weekends and i didn t want to rent a floor sander for weeks at a time ok i m cheap. The buffer motor rotates counterclockwise at approximately 175 rpm the most.

2 remove blend scratch pattern imperfections from the big machine edger and scraper. Replacing the switch and then converting the grinder with pigtails. The orbital sanders are just plain useless. Drum sanders are powerful tools designed for serious deep sanding.

1 flatten the floor.