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Drum/ Thickness Sander
RobWilson:
Looks allot lighter :thumbup:
Rob
S. Heslop:
Work on the dust collector. I'm not too happy with how it's attached to the wall though, the wall plugs pull out a bit if I pull on it lightly. Really I should probably take it down in case it slowly works its way loose.
I might try make some angled brackets to hold it on a bit more at the top or something.
But it does seem to be working (although light dust is making it through. I've got a filter bag to stick over the outlet to catch anything that makes it through). It's just clamped together and nothing is sealed so hopefully efficiency will improve.
I'm hesitating on glueing it together/ sealing it up because I've got that terrible feeling that i'm forgetting something important.
S. Heslop:
Glued the thing together and also attached the filter bag to the outlet.
Then with nothing else to do till I get some soil pipe fittings, I started hacksawing that aluminium bar. Got about a centimeter in when I had a different idea...
I used this circular saw I bought from aldi for cutting sheet steel a while ago. It's a fairly underpowered thing and stalls very easily (even when cutting things within the stated limits), but that turned out to be a good thing since it eliminated the risk of kickback. I was able to saw through the 64mm aluminium bar cutting from both sides.
vtsteam:
It feels good to attack a shop and get things the way you imagined they should be. Good on ye! :thumbup:
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on March 04, 2015, 08:45:44 PM ---It feels good to attack a shop and get things the way you imagined they should be. Good on ye! :thumbup:
--- End quote ---
Yeah it does! It's also good to do stuff you don't have to think too hard about. The sander is one of those things where, if I let myself, i'd think about every minute problem to the point that I never make the thing. I've been lucky that stuff like the motor I wasn't planning to use just fit, as did the stock sanding belt I bought for the conveyor. It's the kind of thing I should've thought a bit about ahead of time.
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