one cool thickness sander

Looks like you got pretty lucky, nice looking machine, hope you have good luck with it.

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I see 2 motors. I guess one turns the drum and one the bed??

Looks great.

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Nice score. Hows the bed adjustment work?

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very nice find. the other motor must be a gear motor that turns feed rollers? How well does it work?

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Looks like the bed adjusts the same as my Belsaw planer. Chain and sprockets wrap around the base on threaded rods and a simple crank adjustment moves the bed up or down evenly. Someone put a lot of work into it. Hope it works as good as it looks.

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I really like the bed height adjustment. Great idea.

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One of the motors turns the drum and the other is a reduction motor and turns the two black rollers (like a bench top planer) to pull the wood thru the sander, its very powerful and if you are not careful it will eat wood and spit it out. I just got it running and I have not changed the paper yet to really test it. I am thinking about making a table that mounts on top so I can use it like a surface sander you can buy the kits for and build yourself, kind of dual purpose. the table does raise and lower on 4 jack screws hooked together buy a chain and sprokets turned by a single crank. whoever built this sander put a lot of thought into it. also the dust collection is great!

-- I was going for that distressed look

What material is the drum made of?

heavy aluminum

-- I was going for that distressed look

Absotively love it!
Hope you got plans on how to build one these bad bioys…and let me in on it!

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Best,
Peter

Great find. How wide can you pass through it?

Steve.

Thats awesome!

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I don’t have the plans, I think the reason this machine is set up like this is because whoever built it had the parts for it. I think the dayton gear motor is around 300. to 400. bucks. I know pillow blocks are very pricey. You could probally get away with mdf for the drum. I don’t know if it would be worth building. i’m not sure how big you could pass thru it, the guy I bought it from said he did cabinet doors with it. that would be cool.

-- I was going for that distressed look

Nice, it has similarities to the one I built (and posted here), but instead of the wide belt in mine (as in comercial ones) this works like a planer.
If you didn’t have a drum sander before it is a very useful machine, I love mine!

Nice, I covet.

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