[Plain_Ol_Ed]

I have messed around with a regular palm sander while trying to clean up old rusty pocket knife blades (I like to pick up junkers, take them apart, clean them up and rebuild them). The basic problem I ran into was the pad on the sander was soft and if you applied any pressure at all to the blade, you ended up with a convex blade profile, slight, but it was there. Found that my preference was for doing it the hard way. Did not experience any heat problems.

[heineda]

Great idea!!! About a year ago, I made a jig to hold my Barton cermic stones, and epoxied to a palm sander. It didn't work, and I broke my white stone when it fell out onto the concrete floor!!! Now, I attach a peice of PSA backed 1.5, 1.0 or .5 micron micro abrasive on the sander, and it works perfectly. With the .5 micron especially, it's a cheap power hone!!!!

Thanks,
Dan Heine

[Thomp]

if you could slip a thin hard flat piece of formica or metal under the emory maybe with some 3m spray against the emory, it could aid in holding the surface flat,, maybe even a few drops of oil on the emory to help float off the abraded crud and rust,
but were gettig into something now that could wreck the mouse.sander you would nevere get the oil out of the pad...
uou could even add velcro to the back of the flat surface so it would hold to the mouse.