Homemade Drum Sander Upgrades

Lee, you have been busy I see! There is alwasy room for improvement and your just the guy I would expect to get a tool to work better. Today’s my birthday so I stayed away from the shop. But I have been on Lumbderjocks off and on all day!
Great job on that upgrade. The crank and jack look cool!

Tony

-- Tony C , My high school shop teacher said "You can do it"... Now I can't stop!

I like the way you improve this sander and don’t just say that is good enough and live with it .
Good improvements that I will use when I build mine .

-- Kiefer 松

Such nice work. I love making things to help people, especially me! How did you attach your wooden handle to the all thread? I am always interested in how wood attaches to metal like that and yours looks like it needs to be very strong. Thank you.

-- Chance Four "Not Just a Second Chance"

Kiefer, I haven’t seen many tools that in some way can’t be improved on or customized to suit one’s needs. Happy building :).

nomercadies, the handle is made from oak and so I just drilled and tapped the wood, epoxed the end of the all thread and screwed it in the handle.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

Really like the hold down idea!!

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Wow. So glad it isn’t more detailed or difficult. Thank you.

-- Chance Four "Not Just a Second Chance"

Love the scissor jack! That is just way cool.

-- --- Richard Jackson

That scissor jack could be incorporated into a nice router table lift too! Nice job!

Just out of curiosity, did you get the original drum sander plans an place in particular?

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That is something I have been wanting to build. Very Very Cool

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Milo, I loosely modeled my sander after “Pat Hawley’s build” http://woodgears.ca/sander/thickness.html although I changed up all of the dimensions to suit my needs.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

This is too slick. How well does it perform? I don’t know if I have the patience tom make something like this. I admire yours.

-- She asked me, "Who are you going to please with that?" I said, "Me."

Hey Tim, the sander performs really well. I put a 1 1/2hp. motor on it so it almost impossible to stall. Since the drum is made from MDF disks I will probably have to true it up at some point. That procedure is rather simple though, you just attach some sandpaper to the table under the drum then raise the table.

-- Lee~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

A fine looking machine! Another one for the ‘TO Do’ list?? :-)

-- Gossamer shavings just floating around the back yard….-Bandit

I have all of the parts to do one of these and I got my idea from the woodgears.ca website as well. I just haven’t the time or really space in my shop right now. Gotta get rid of some leftover garage sale items. Maybe if I get enough saw dust on them, my wife will come out and move them.

-- Dad: Someone was supposed to pick up his toys! Son: My name isn't "Someone".

Thanks man! I appreciate the link. I wonder if I can adapt this design to my Shopsmith design…?

Awesome job, congrats on the Top Three.

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