I showed a glimpse of the Spider in a recent YouTube chronicle episode but haven’t spoken more about it. The Spider is a product from an Australian company – T & T Design.
It has a glass re-enforced polypropylene body, which is both strong and light. The central section (red) is spring-loaded, which makes loading and unloading abrasive material easier, and there is a central ‘bolt’ to tighten the unit down on the abrasive.
Spider
The unit can be loaded with an assortment of abrasives – it is supplied with cloth backed abrasive sleeves, green scouring strips and sheet abrasive.
Drum Abrasive
Loaded with abrasive sleeves is probably the most common, and with that in place it acts very much as a traditional disk sander, with a difference. That difference is how padded the sander feels during operation – I got a real feeling of (cushioned) control. When the abrasive is too clogged / used, rotate the sleeves to expose a new surface.
You can cut sheet paper to produce a form of flap sander, or use scoring strips for polishing, and after that, let your imagination run.
Abrasive Polishing
So a rather innovative approach to using inexpensive abrasives, and at $A25 (+GST) it is not a particularly expensive tool, and a useful addition to the arsenal.
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That is a great invention, why do I not have one of them with my tools.