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Drum/ Thickness Sander
vtsteam:
They make spray adhesive especaly for holding disks on automotive sponge rubber sanding disks. I used to use those when building stripper canoes. You have to play with how much to put on, and how long to wait for it to tack before sticking it together, and whether to spray both the drum and paper, or just one of them. So don't give up if it doesn't stick well or sticks too well and the sandpaper shreds when trying to remove it. Keep experimenting and you'll find a happy medium.
Swarfing:
I use 3M photo mount like a contact adhesive for my sanding blocks. It sticks firm enough to stay but not enough so you cant take it off easily.
S. Heslop:
So much for a video today. I'm gonna pretend I meant next monday. I've mostly been waiting for that varnish to dry enough to sand. It's slow in the cold garage.
Yesterday I made a little box for the electronics, and got it hooked up and tested. Turns the motor/ adjusts the speed just fine but with a proper load and running for a long time, i'm not so sure how long that transistor will hold up in an enclosed box. Won't be hard to replace it and improve the cooling if that happens though.
I spent most of today waiting for glue to dry, sticking two bits of oak together to make a block wide enough for part of the motor mount. It's clamped on here. Didn't get any glue squeezing out vertically so hopefully it wont seize the thing up.
I got to use the dust collector to suck up dust from the thickness planer today though. It's still not sealed up at all but it seems to be separating the dust fairly well. That said the planer produces mostly large chips and i'd imagine the thing would struggle more with the sander dust.
S. Heslop:
Made a thing for locking the motor. It's cut down on vibrations but they're still there. It'd probably be a good idea to replace the cable ties with jubilee clips but that'd require taking the whole thing apart to get access. I'm not sure if I can be bothered at this point. I guess i'll wait and see how much of a problem the vibrations cause; i'm worried they might give the sanded wood an undulated surface.
It's kind of funny but I never get too excited about finishing projects. I think i've said it before but I started making videos partly as a motivator for finishing things.
S. Heslop:
Had the belt going for a bit and then the epoxy bond broke. I've been fussing most of the day trying different methods to couple the thing till I realised that garden hose has an internal diameter of about 12mm. There's a bit of bar threaded and screwed onto the end of the motor that's epoxied to the hose, and it's held on with a jubilee clip at the roller end. Life is hard without a lathe.
Anyways I kind of jumped the gun in trying it out, so i'm trying it again and letting the epoxy cure overnight. There's room in there to fit two jubilee clips but I'd have to head out and buy a second.
It's all these little things that seem to take the longest. Tomorrow i'll head out and buy another junction box (the one I bought I ended up using with the new lights) and get it neatly wired up. Then there's finishing off the dust hood and attaching the sandpaper to the drum and it should be complete.
I think for the last 10 or so posts in this thread i've been saying it's nearly complete but I think I really mean it this time.
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