Lons
Fellow
Our Jim is a right old meanie.
Well everyone knows he is, don't they?
But why? I hear you ask.
I wanted to buy his drum sander but he wouldn't sell - eh? - could've bought many many pints of beer with the procedes so. after a couple of days crying my eyes out
i decided i couldn't give Axminster £750 for a new one 
and nothing else for it but to haul my old bones out of the chair and make one.
Many youtube videos and a few scribbled sketches later 1 day later results in some progress using stuff from my piles of treasured items. I'm making it up as I go along tbh but can't see why it won't work.
A couple of self centering bearings, 5/8" steel rod, old 1ph motor, 25mm ply, 22mm melamine faced board, some 6mm inserts, hinges will be 6mm bolts. ( I drilled 3 hinge points at the back with inserts on back of ply sides and in the edge of the table. Initially fitted in the centre hole but dropping down will allow up to 130mm thick material ). Intend to make the drum from 110mm pvc soil pipe but will support it well into the ends and will be stepped ends with turned ply, mdf ?. Only has a width capacity of around 350mm as was limited by the length of shaft I have but will have to be enough!
I'll make up a mechanism to raise and lower the table front and later decide whether to make up some kind of infeed roller. Dust hood probably out of ply and polycarbonate. I had intended to make the feed table out of Mistral or Corian but then found the melamine chipboard.
Thoughts on improvements welcome but don't expect rapid progress because I'm known to procrastinate so this could take a long, long time.
Sorry for the pics taken on 'phone.
So, back to Jim. Only joking mate, if you had sold it, you would be knocking on my door to get it back after a month - and I would have refused.
Well everyone knows he is, don't they?
But why? I hear you ask.I wanted to buy his drum sander but he wouldn't sell - eh? - could've bought many many pints of beer with the procedes so. after a couple of days crying my eyes out
i decided i couldn't give Axminster £750 for a new one and nothing else for it but to haul my old bones out of the chair and make one.Many youtube videos and a few scribbled sketches later 1 day later results in some progress using stuff from my piles of treasured items. I'm making it up as I go along tbh but can't see why it won't work.
A couple of self centering bearings, 5/8" steel rod, old 1ph motor, 25mm ply, 22mm melamine faced board, some 6mm inserts, hinges will be 6mm bolts. ( I drilled 3 hinge points at the back with inserts on back of ply sides and in the edge of the table. Initially fitted in the centre hole but dropping down will allow up to 130mm thick material ). Intend to make the drum from 110mm pvc soil pipe but will support it well into the ends and will be stepped ends with turned ply, mdf ?. Only has a width capacity of around 350mm as was limited by the length of shaft I have but will have to be enough!
I'll make up a mechanism to raise and lower the table front and later decide whether to make up some kind of infeed roller. Dust hood probably out of ply and polycarbonate. I had intended to make the feed table out of Mistral or Corian but then found the melamine chipboard.
Thoughts on improvements welcome but don't expect rapid progress because I'm known to procrastinate so this could take a long, long time.
Sorry for the pics taken on 'phone.So, back to Jim. Only joking mate, if you had sold it, you would be knocking on my door to get it back after a month - and I would have refused.
and I've made a little progress with the sander but because there appeared to be no interest here, rather than clogging up the forum I'll mention (presuming I'm allowed) that I started a thread on UKW if anyone wants to read further. There are a number of members there who have built one and others who would like to.
Might get some time today to cut the dust extraction port and then true up the drum after which I can get the adhesive roll fitted and it's operational.
