"Key" Information

Tips and stuff about sanding and buffing your Pi Tau Sigma key (by Sean Chinen):

  1. Buy a set of files at your local hardware store.
  2. Start off with a 60 grit sandpaper, then work yourself up to 600 grit.
  3. Wear gloves, cause your hands will thank you for it.
  4. Use a clean rag to wipe your key.
  5. Have good lighting. Flourescent light works best.
  6. Have ample amount of time(40 to 50 hours).
  7. Use popsicle and chopsticks for hard to reach areas.
  8. Don't get carried away with your sanding cause it is not good.
  9. When using 400 or 600 grit paper, wet sand your key. This will add shine to your key.
  10. When in desperation, use a Dremel tool. (Don't get caught!)
How you can tell a person is pledging for Pi Tau Sigma (by Brian Lau):
    He/she:
  1. has extremely strong and dextrous fingers.
  2. has strange knowledge of the first 20 letters in the Greek alphabet.
  3. goes into fits of rage upon hearing the word "divet" or "black spot".
  4. has green spots under fingernails.

Sanding and polishing the Pi Tau Sigma key is time consuming, tedious, frustrating, and demanding process. When we first were given our key, its entire outer surface was rough and dull. We were expected to put in over 30 hours of sanding and buffing for our key to be acceptable enough for us to join Pi Tau Sigma. Listed above are tips we have learned the hard way, and which would have been helpful to know when we first started sanding.
Shown above is the buffing wheel we used to polish our keys.
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Last updated on October %.1d at 08:54 PM.