Electric sander for walls and plane doors?

Leif

Bear in mind that if you buy a power tool, you'll have it for future jobs. By the way, if you're planing doors, you'll need some way to support them. You could buy a couple of cheap work benches from Argos. They are a bit cheap and nasty, but they are good enough for planing doors, and other small jobs. I wouldn't buy one for general woodwork though, too flimsy.

macman wrote: »

If you need to smooth filler off with an power sander, then you are putting far too much on. All it should require is a fine hand sanding.
Using a power tool on plastered walls will create an incredible amount of dust.

Yes, and the OP might be using a hard filler. Something like Easi-fill is much easier to sand.

tony6403

RaiderHammer wrote: »

One thing I should of mention is the doors are the hollow type with just like a hardboard both sides.

Does this make any difference?

Thanks.

No problem if you are only removing 2/3mm.
One workbench will do to hold the doors steady for planing, just leave one corner on the floor and clamp the stile of the door in the vice enabling you to plane the bottom at an angle. You need to pencil on both sides of the door to give a line to work to.
There should not be any nails or staples but check or you will knacker the planer blades.

Gloomendoom

tony6403 wrote: »

A tenon saw is certainly not a tool for this job - once you got beyond the depth of the blade the "back" would be forcing you off your line of cut. Accurately removing 2/3mm with any type of handsaw would require exceptional skill.

Thanks for the complement.

I have probably trimmed at least ten doors using a tenon saw, removing between 3 and 6 mm from each. The rigid back of the tenon saw means that an extremely accurate and straight cut can be made.

john.h

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Thanks for the complement.

I have probably trimmed at least ten doors using a tenon saw, removing between 3 and 6 mm from each. The rigid back of the tenon saw means that an extremely accurate and straight cut can be made.

A tenon saw is totally the wrong saw for cutting doors... (I have cut hundreds )

John.....

Gloomendoom

john.h wrote: »

A tenon saw is totally the wrong saw for cutting doors... (I have cut hundreds )

John.....

If it was totally wrong it wouldn't work at all but it does, very well.

Try it, you might be surprised.

tony6403

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Thanks for the complement.

I have probably trimmed at least ten doors using a tenon saw, removing between 3 and 6 mm from each. The rigid back of the tenon saw means that an extremely accurate and straight cut can be made.

I regret that I did not mean to pay you any compliment.
To save me the time writing an explanation of the uses for a tenon saw I have copied an extract from "design technology" which sets them out :-
Tenon saws are used for accurate, straight cuts in small pieces of wood. The back of the saw limits the depth of the cut. The brass or steel back stiffens the blade and provides sufficient weight to cut. This increases the accuracy of the cut. The tenon saw is used to cut small pieces of wood and most joints.

I am wondering if you don't know what is meant by the "back" of a tenon saw.
It is quite simply not possible to remove 6mm from the bottom of a door with a tenon saw without breaking off the waste side of the cut as you proceed.