Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum

MakinSawdust · Post by **MakinSawdust** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:25 pm

Will a CARDBOARD drum work on a homemade drumsander? Can a bicycle hub be used as a drumsander bearing? Today I will show you the drum and how I change the sandpaper.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/-p7Fs2xmmKc[/youtube]

edma194 · Post by **edma194** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:14 pm

Cool idea, might even try it out. Cardboard tubes are so cheap I don't know if I'd bother peeling old paper off and just use a new tube instead.

rpd · Post by **rpd** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:39 pm

MakinSawdust wrote:Will a CARDBOARD drum work on a homemade drumsander? Can a bicycle hub be used as a drumsander bearing? Today I will show you the drum and how I change the sandpaper.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/-p7Fs2xmmKc[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p7Fs2xmmKc[/youtube]

wrmnfzy · Post by **wrmnfzy** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:19 pm

Would PVC be an option to the cardboard drum?

SkullsquadronX · Post by **SkullsquadronX** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:41 pm

I have seen two u-tube videos with a PVC as a drum sander. Going to use PVC when I make mine.

Chad · Post by **Chad** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:18 pm

You might want to re-think the PVC pipe idea. Scott just posted a video about this very subject; seen in the link below:

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/comm ... ml#p275447

MakinSawdust · Post by **MakinSawdust** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:10 pm

PVC is surely an option too. I have an abundance of cardboard tubes available for me, so this is why I decides to go that route.
My Motto: "Use what ya got and not what ya aint"

thedovetailjoint · Post by **thedovetailjoint** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:15 pm

PVC isn't an awful choice, but the tubing I used sure was. It was actually tubing from rolls of kraft paper that Shopsmith used in the factory as packing material. The tubing was very thin-walled, so that was the biggest flaw. Schedule 80 or even 120 if you can get it would be amazing. Scott

edma194 · Post by **edma194** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:20 pm

Chad wrote:You might want to re-think the PVC pipe idea. Scott just posted a video about this very subject; seen in the link below:

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/comm ... ml#p275447

Both PVC and cardboard might have the 'roundness' problem described in the video. A shorter drum might be less of a problem. In the video he ended up laminating plywood into long square stock and turning it, that seems like a much better solution than stacking up 40 or more disks although more work and cost than a pre-made pipe or tube.

reible · Post by **reible** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:13 pm

This post might be worth checking out even if the end product is quite different. It involves making a drum out of PVC and how I got it round etc.

https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/begi ... t5342.html

BTW I still have and use this 10 years later.

Ed

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