[Jewelry making - Article 00150] - Re: [Orchid] Bench grinder for polishing tips

[Karen Goeller]

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>        great, but I spend more time on the floor looking for my pieces
>     than I do polishing. Please, O Friends of Orchid, tell me what I am
>     doing wrong and give me tips or techniques to prevent this. 

Candy,

    It sounds like you're not using a polishing hood of any type with
    your grinder.  I've adapted a grinder as a polisher (several years
    ago, at this point) and use it quite successfully on an ongoing
    basis.  Like any polisher, pieces can get grabbed and flung around
    -- but if you have a good polishing hood to catch them they won't be
    as damaged. 

    More critically -- that polishing hood should be attached to some
    sort of suction system to pull that polishing dust away from your
    face! 

    The setup doesn't have to be at all expensive -- a sturdy cardboard
    box with cutouts and properly secured to the stand for your grinder
    can function as a polishing hood.  Attach to it a shop vac, and
    cover the intake for the shop vac with a bit of window screen.  Duct
    tape to hold it all together, and you have a functional polishing
    hood to start off with for under $20 ($19 of which will be the shop
    vac).  As you get further along, you'll want to look at a more
    permanent setup, but I include this one as an innovative and
    incredibly cheap way to start out (yes, it's how I started with my
    home one and it worked quite well until the box finally fell apart
    and I got a sturdier setup). 

Hope this helps!

Karen
kgoeller AT nolimitations.com

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