Jason Ranney, the owner of Sanco Hardwood Flooring in Naugatuck, Conn ., said that when people rent a floor-sanding machine they usually end up with a drum sander.
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"Most gouge marks I see are from the barrel of a rented drum sander, " he said, adding that to use such a machine properly it is necessary to keep the machine moving whenever it is in contact with the floor.
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Sandpaper for the drum sander is available in grits of : very coarse ( 20, 24, 30 ), coarse ( 36, 40 ), medium ( 50, 60, 80 ), fine ( 80, 100, 120 ) and very fine ( 120, 150 ).
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The Dremel Moto-Tool is a small electric device that can operate at several thousand R . P . M . This hobby and craft tool has both miniature grinder wheels and drum sander attachments that can be used to file the nail.
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Eve Blackburn, technical support director for the Flecto Co ., a wood-finish manufacturer in Hickory, N . C ., said that for those who would rather avoid using drum sanders, her company has a floor refinishing system available at most large home-improvement centers.
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Traditionally, most use a drum sander on wood floors, but if your floor is not a solid wood parquet and is merely laminated wood " tiles " with a thin veneer of plywood on top, then it may be that a rotary sander would be safer.
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With some accessories the former can be used as a shaper, a disk or drum sander, a grinder, a surface planer, a router, a horizontal boring machine and even as a power unit for a lathe; whereas a table saw's secondary uses are limited to shaper and disk sander.
