A power-feed thickness drum sander I built

Impressive. About what do you have into this thing if you don’t mind me asking?

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Pretty dang cool!!

Watched the videos and it looks like it works as it should.

Good job!

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Hi mreza and welcome to Lumberjocks .That is a very impressive machine you have built .

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welcome to lumberjocks … hope you enjoy using !

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That is real cool It look like its going to work.

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Very nice sander. Where did you get your one piece bottom sandpaper, if it is indeed sandpaper. I wouldn’t know where to get paper that wide. Welcome to LJs.

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Cool…. what was the material cost??

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I really think this is cool.

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I’m also interested in both the time and material into this thing.

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Thats a smart idea and well looking in construction well done I hope it works as good as it looks I wish I had the plan I would attempt one in the winter myself Alistair

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Thanks to all for the kind words.

Yes, it works well (much better I was hoping for). Since I built it, every board I plane goes through it before dong any other thing. And it is accurate. The following two photos show the different sides of the board I just sanded in that video:
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2669873000103474875kGDIlV
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2951214130103474875sGeVcg

As for cost: it was around $600 for all the parts (which were new), and I have some left-over parts (bearings/chain/sprockets). I don’t know how much time in put into it, but half of the time was designing it :-)

I got some of the parts from www.surpluscenter.com (although after that I found a local supplier with lower prices). As for the belt, it’s 24”x60” made by klingspor, you can get it from
http://woodworkingshop.com/

I like it .I really like it.

Bob

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It doesn’t get much better. Keep it up!!
ENCORE! ENCORE!!

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I’m slightly jealous of people who are able to build these type of awsome machines. Great job. You’ll get alot of use out of this and I’m sure it will give you greater satisfaction.

-- Rusty

I have a Delta (18-36) , it looks like yours works better than it does! Excellent job! Your raising mechanism looks much more robust than the Delta. I have to think you spent a good chunk of your budget on the power feed electronics and motor. I started to build one myself then came across a deal on the Delta and never finished it. I had the spring rollers for mine that look very similar to what you did. Mine looked a little more like a 36” Performax and is made of 1” X3” steel tubing and 3” steel pipe just acme all thread (Enco) and nuts for the raising mechanism. The sprockets and chains also came from Surplus Center. I hadn’t worked out the power feed I was hoping I could find a treadmill or rotisserie with a variable speed drive I could scavenge.
Anyway kudos to you for finishing it and engineering a fine working machine! I know you will love it. BTW Welcome to LumberJocks!

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Excellent build, thanks for sharing.

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Thanks again folks.

The cost for DC motor was $38 ($15 plus $23 Shipping) off e-bay and the controller was $60.
The largest some was $200 for the 2HP motor and the rest on belt, sand paper roll, bolts/bearing/sprocket/shafts, etc.

That’s an amazing build. I would love to know which plan you settled on and where it can be found. Great stuff!

-- JMP

OK, bravo! That’s awesome! I’d love to build a machine like that. You have a ton of talent!

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I missed this 35 days ago mreza. Thanks for resurrecting it Emeralds. I’m certain you enjoyed the design and making and I’m sure you’ll have many many hours of pleasure from its use.

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Emeralds, Sorry for the late reply,
I used ideas from several others I had seen (including commercially built ones) but the overall plan is something I came up with myself. Sorry, I don’t have any drawings that are useful. I never do it, mostly have everything in my head, just write down some of the measurements.

Thanks to all for the comments.

Great job. Looks like an excellent project that will pay dividends for a long time.

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Fantastic job well done!!!! This is one of my next projects, followed by a band saw that can resaw 18”. You’re prodject is very inspiring. I was thinking about ordering a replacement lower belt from Grizzley for my prodject. I will check out the source you mentioned. I will try to draw cad plans of it. If you have anything on paper, If you pass it to me incl. electrical diagrams I’ll include it and post it for the group to refer to for their own endever. Again well done, and thanks for sharing with the FAMILY OF “JOCKS” !! #/;-)= I love seeing home brew machinery and building them my self.

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