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hfmann
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Re: Universal Tool Rest

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Thanks Scollins - very helpful info.

What's this about a drum sander for the SS?

hal
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Re: Universal Tool Rest

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hfmann wrote:Thanks Scollins - very helpful info.

What's this about a drum sander for the SS?

hal
I believe he based his drum sander on this design by Shipwright. https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/57158

and a video of the sander in action.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf2qfOm6bDg[/youtube]

I went a different route and made a V-Drum sander,
Vdrumsander.jpg
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which is more like the Sand Flee that Shopsmith used to sell.

http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/SS_Arch ... d_Flee.htm
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Re: Universal Tool Rest

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You can clamp tools to the regular tool rest as well. Here is a post when I made my sandflee like sander:

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 340#p61340

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Re: Universal Tool Rest

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thanks rpd - that gives me a much better idea of how to go about constructing this. thanks.

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