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Re: Newbe air tool user question

To: Douglas Shook <dshook@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Newbe air tool user question
From: Billy Zoom <billyzoom@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:59:34 +0000
> My first project has been to use an air sander to prepare some cabinet
> doors for painting. While sanding the first 10 doors, all went well, but
> now there are numerous spatters of oil coming out the sander's exhaust
> port (and onto the doors). Is this normal, or do I have the oiler
> dispensing too much oil? If I have filled my air line with too much oil,
> is there a good way to clean out the excess?
The manual for my I.R. dual action sander says that It is normal for the
sander to exhaust a fine oil mist and for paint prep applications where
that's a problem they recomend oiling the tool manually with a drop of
oil and then letting it run free for a few seconds until the oil mist is
reduced.

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