Simple homemade tools for repairing dents in stainless steel tubes for boat rails.

**stainless stål** · Jun 24, 2017, 03:01 AM

Hi
I have made some simple Tools consisting of a steelbar and two wooden blocks to straighten dents in stainless steel tubes.

I would be happy to receive comments

Regards
Olav

**C-Bag** · Jun 24, 2017, 08:08 AM

Interesting process, thanks for sharing. I'm interested in the belt sander as I've never seen one like that. Did you make of modify it?

**stainless stål** · Jun 24, 2017, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by C-Bag

Interesting process, thanks for sharing. I'm interested in the belt sander as I've never seen one like that. Did you make of modify it?

Thank you for your nice comment, C-Bag

I have not made the belt sander. It's just a regular pipe sander. I've just made an elevation on the sides of the wheels to keep the belt better in place when I work fast sideways on tubes like in the video.

Regards
Olav

**C-Bag** · Jun 25, 2017, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by stainless stål

Thank you for your nice comment, C-Bag

I have not made the belt sander. It's just a regular pipe sander. I've just made an elevation on the sides of the wheels to keep the belt better in place when I work fast sideways on tubes like in the video.

Regards
Olav

Olav I don't mean to derail your post or take anything away from your DIY tools, but I've never seen a pipe sander before. Most of my life I've done metal work, but not much having to do with stainless. I had to do some refitting of some stainless fruit guides on a fruit sizer and it of course messed up the brushed finish. I found out they had a special horizontal abrasive drum on a variable speed angle grinder that could repair the finish. And without that our regular flap disc's had no way to make that style of finish. And just like with the fruit guide, trying to do the repair like you did would not look just like new without that particular sander.

So when I did a search for a hand held belt sander I only came up with ones I was familiar with. Not until I went back and reread your reply did I notice "pipe sander". That brought up a whole slew of machines like yours. And the prices are staggering, the cheapest was almost $200 and going up to around $1500! So in my mind a DIY version of this type of sander as a bolt on attachment to my Makita 4 1/2" grinder is a worthy future project. If I was doing this kind of work all the time I could see buying one, but it's not something I do a lot of. But thank you for bringing it to my attention.

**Kwick Aronson** · Jun 25, 2017, 09:06 AM

Amazon has the sander with forty belts in four different grits for $188 Amazon Prime. Mine will be here Tuesday.

**Toolmaker51** · Jun 24, 2017, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by C-Bag

Interesting process, thanks for sharing. I'm interested in the belt sander as I've never seen one like that. Did you make of modify it?

Well commercially there is Dynabrade, and another common to moldmakers, can't recall name. Anyway, I'm betting skateboard bearings and a crowned poly wheel could be driven by right angle grinder, just a scaled down belt sander. The belts come short as 12'' or so and narrow, 3/8'' to 1/2'' wide, not just abrasive, Scotchbright and felt too.

**Frank S** · Jun 24, 2017, 09:18 AM

One things for sure this guy is no novice when it making an assessment of damage then creating a solution for repair.
Nice simple tool and great skills in repairing, very nicely done.