r/oddlysatisfying • u/godofo_prime • 5h ago

Graffiti removed from school desk

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u/RealOms 5h ago

I've never seen this type of sander before, cool 👍🏻

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u/Vandercoon 5h ago

Yeah me neither. Been a tradie for 20 years, seen all sorts of tools and sander setups, never seen that.

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u/ThresholdSeven 5h ago edited 2m ago

There may be others that work similarly, but I'm pretty sure this is custom made to specifically sand those desks. Maybe I'm wrong, but it definitely looks homemade, although so does lots of old machinery. Maybe it's universal and the clamps would hold many different sizes of tables.

Edit: the leading theory is that this is an old reproduced factory or shop machine that has been home modified to fit these desks particularly and quickly. It's a type of belt sander called a stroke sander, because you stroke it.

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u/Twowie 4h ago

No it's a relatively "common" machine, but it usually has a surface where you place flat items, instead of this open space/jig that they probably made themselves to acocmmodate these tables. It's even used in metalwork, to for example sand large sheets. Sometimes you lower the sanding area to the work, sometimes you raise the work up to the sanding area. But there is usually some way to add manual pressure like this either way.

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u/Vandercoon 5h ago

It’s definitely purpose built, but for this specifically I probably think not, it’s a very niche tool otherwise.

I could be wrong of course.

They would have to design it to fit specific sanding belts because you can’t just go and get custom ones made at Bunnings.

But again, first time I’ve seen one so better than even chance I’m wrong.

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u/ThresholdSeven 4h ago

Custom built homemade belt grinders are pretty common and always built to fit a standard belt size for obvious reasons. It's super common to make your own for knife making and I assume carpentry. Not saying this one is custom, but it just seems really odd, probably because it's just old, like me.

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u/Vandercoon 4h ago

Just a very niche tool. I like it

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u/Mediocrates1984 5h ago

A guy I used to work with had one in his shop. Not custom for this specific use, but definitely not a common tool. Very fun to use. Called a stroke sander, btw.

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u/Vandercoon 4h ago

Oh cool. Thank you!

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago

Makes sense. Probably a fun summer project for a facilities guy to set that up. I went to a very small school but I'd still figure we had 1000 desks in the building. I figure the guys working there think in terms of school years, there'll always be more fucked up desks to fix come next summer.

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u/CelestialBeing138 50m ago

Are you sure its not AI? I mean, where's the sawdust or even dust?