Grinding machines are indispensable in every hobby workshop – we show their application in a system comparison.
You build furniture from wood-based materials yourself? You spend your free time restoring old furniture? Or you would like to take repairs on the car body into your own hands? The wrought iron garden fence must be prepared for the new painting? Wherever surfaces are to be smoothed or prepared for coating, replace loop-
laborious manual work. Whether large or small areas, you can work quickly and effortlessly with electric grinders. But every discipline, every material places different demands on the processing tool. The market offers different grinding systems. In addition to grinding devices that can be used in a variety of ways, there are outspoken specialists.
With the orbital sander, the electromechanical drive oscillates the base area in light, circular vibrations of approx 2 to 3 mm diameter offset. Coarse abrasive leaves small ones on the worked surface, spiral tracks.
The belt sander works in one direction: Following the run of the tape, the abrasive grains perform a linear movement. The constant uniform process ensures high material removal, but also leaves a rough surface.
The eccentric grinder produces a complex grinding pattern. It results from the double movement of the sanding pad: rotation around its own axis, which rotates eccentrically around the drive axle. The grinding pattern is more even than with monotonous movement.