[Jewelry making - Article 00402] - Re: [Orchid] Sandblasting set up

[richard hart]

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>         ... there is a flex shaft tool with loose wires that flop
>     around and these will produce a sandblast texture. 

    The heaviest gauge wheel will last quite a while, the lighter gauge
    wheels did not last very long for me. They must be used at a very
    low rpm or the wires break easily and quickly. 

    I recently purchased a marathon n7 micromotor, and it is incredible.
    I have 6 flexshafts, 4 different models, and the marathon is
    quieter, smoother, and faster that any flexshaft. It is dream to work
    with. The dealer in Denver let me use one as a trial, and about 2
    days later I could not live without it. It is so much faster, cuts
    time down on finishing metal probably by a third. I can switch
    between foot control and a control box for a constant speed, and it
    is reversible. 

    Never having used a reversible hand piece, when I tried it, if you
    press too hard, the mandrel unscrews. But used light enough to do
    the work without the mandrel unscrewing allows the dust to go away
    from my face. This direction makes so much more sense to me I was
    wondering, why did the flexshaft makers  make the machines so they do
    not go the same way buffers are made to turn, and make mandrels
    reverse threaded? Seem like in this day and age of common sense and
    technology, someone would have noticed how much sense it makes to not
    have all the dust flying toward the users face. 

    Is it just that the designers and engineers don't have to use them,
    so they don't care? 

Richard Hart

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