Drum Sander (DUMB SANDER?) - Tool Time Tuesday
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2019
- Never thought I'd ever need a drum sander. This one is great, except for one incredibly stupid part about it....
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So a drum sander and a thickness planer do pretty much the same thing. The plus of a drum sander is it can deal with far more difficult grain structures. But here is the important part. Neither of them flatten materials. And a very obvious thing to back up what I just said is the name “Thickness Planer”. It planes all the wood down to the same thickness. But any bows, cups, twists, and anything else the wood may do when releasing tension will just pop right back. The tool that does that is a Jointer. Go and search in youtube “Jointer vs thickness planer”. I could go into detail but a video would be easier. Though the drum sander or planer works for what your doing, they do not flatten. Sorry that just really irritated me. Otherwise, love your vids and keep at it. 😁
My goal for 2024 is to eliminate the phrase "This bad boy"
Please never put your hand or receive the wood piece this way. Sometimes the wood can be thrown at high speed out of the outfieed side.
#1 rule is your drum sander is not a planer!
Thickness planers are not meant to flatten a cupped board. A jointer is the tool for that. Typically the planer would push down on the board when it’s going through the planer and the cup remains.
My conveyor belt is made of sandpaper and grabs the piece to push it thru.
actually, this is probably a Chinese machine, which we can buy also in Europe under several brands. As you said, the conveyor belt is poor. Also changing the abrasive belt is a pain....
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I had no idea that there were drum sanders that small. The one I once saw was huge. Regarding the planer, well let's just say "I know what you mean". The first time I used mine was with some stabilized wood. Man, when that sumbitch came shooting out, it came with a vengeance. Took me 20 minutes to find my left testicle. That was a bad day.
You bought a cheap machine! I use a Delta and I use it often and it works very well. I did a lot of research before buying and did not go by price alone. The right drum sander is not dumb.
Open Frame Drum Sander ("OFDS") I've got one in my school shop. Great machine and it becomes more versatile the longer you have it. Put any machine like this in a school shop and the students will invent uses you can't imagine. Not all of them have been terrifying but I'm awfully glad I have the kids trained to ask first before they try weird uses.
Ha, the key of the music matched the note of the dust collector kicking on at
Someone may have already commented but for small pieces double side tape them to a larger piece. Run then through back to back.
I definitely remember you opening up the planer and running the small piece in it. I think the drum sander was a great addition for what you do. I sure could have used one last year but I don’t build cabinets everyday. When I do build them it would be nice.
I didnt know what a drum sander was untill today i learn so much from you
yes! so glad I found your channel. I've recently inherited a bunch of tools and don't know what half of them even are.
love drum sanders, we have a dual drum sander in the shop, best tool on the planet!!!!
I've got a Steel City dual drum sander. The biggest complaint I had with it is the clips NEVER held the sand paper to the roll. After a few passes, the paper would come out of the clip and wrap itself around the roll in a strange way and ruin the piece of wood going through. I eventually upgraded to Grizzly hook and loop system and it's been great! If your clips start to fail, remember you can upgrade.
Its rare to have someone with actual years of experience on something that can add to a video like this. I hope they reach out to you and not only improve your system, but improve all their tools like this. Often, they get more ideas - better ideas - from practical users like yourself than they do in a think tank in their boxed offices.
I bought a Supermax sander that had the poly belt, I replaced it with a sandpaper belt and there is no comparison. The key to an overhead sander is proper feed speed / removal thickness. I had to play with mine a lot to get it down. I bought a digital read out for mine and I only take off maybe a quarter of a turn at a time, or about .010 per pass. You will get way better life from the sandpaper if you clean it a lot, especially with resinous woods. The finer the paper the faster it clogs. Great video!