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Has anyone built a stroke sander?

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I would like to build a stroke sander for my shop. I have a stroke sander drive that can be raised and lowered and has a mounting brackett for the motor and a idler pulley to tighten the belt. This came to me on a pallet of junk that I bought at a auction, I was after some good bench vices that were in the same lot and didn't find the drive untill I got home. I have no idea what the hp requirments are for these I will proably build one a little on the small side for doing cabinet doors. As I will need to make a pulley for the other end I am interested in what others have used for bearings and shafts , it seems like glued up pcs. of mdf or baltic birch would make a good pulley. also interested in how others have built the table slides and hight adjustment.
 
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I have the end pulleys assemblies. The part that drives the sanding belt. Is that the part you already have? Mine has a double pulley, so I'm guessing that you'll need at least a 3hp motor to drive it. This is another one of those things that I found the parts for, put never had time to work on. If these sound like parts that you may need for yours let me know. Fine Woodworking, Volume 1, issue 3 had a nice article on building a stroke sander.
 
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I have the drive end including a 9 inch diameter pulley that the sanding belt runs on. I do not have the matching one for the other end of the sanding belt but I really don't think it will be to hard to make one for the other end as it will just be the idler. I am thinking I will make it of mdf and machine out pockets to accomidate ball bearings that will run on a 1" steel shaft.
 
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I read the title of this thread and was slightly amused, I couldn't give one away a few years back. This sander came from a joinery and mainly sanded passage doors. I used it to sand cabinet doors, assembled drawers and small table tops. Everything of value was demounted and wrecker got the rest

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Here s the stroke sander I built in 2105. It was taken from AW Marlow s design in FW mag. It works very well. If you re interested I can find the the magazine and give you information. -M

- frmig
How is the dust collection for that? What size motor?

I have been seriously thinkiing of getting one for sanding down my stone inlays that I used to fill voids and cracks.
I was thinking the stroke sander would allow me to get the stone down to level faster than multiple passes through the drum sander.
 

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