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OK, the name "Stock Room Supply" brings to mind what you are building. Don't they offer a design already drawn and perhaps a top that you can purchase for another $80 or so???

Ed, I can't see paying 80-90 dollars for a slab of Formica covered MDF that I can make myself out of materials I already have.

Or are you adjusting to fit some thing like the shopsmith for power?

That is exactly what I am attempting to do. Why buy a $100 motor when I have an excellent variable speed Shopsmith motor available. I just haven't decided if I want to use the belt drive or hook it up direct. Without the heavy motor it will be light enough to hang on the wall for storage.

It doesn't happen to have a sheetmetal package does it???

I don't know what you mean by a "sheetmetal package" but the program is highly configurable for a lot of different uses. Here is the web site you can go to to see what it is all about... http://sketchup.google.com/

reible wrote: It doesn't happen to have a sheetmetal package does it???

Ed

Ed, There are a number of sheetmetal plugins for ShetchUp. Here's one that's rather interesting...

Hi,

I did a lot of research on doing one of these and I sometimes get confused as to which place sold what and what you got in packages... it turns out the table top I was thinking of comes from another company altogether. Some where I do have a series of emails from "V" sander people... If I recall they would not sell me just the sanding parts and pillow blocks... didn't want the fancy machine pulley and belt stuff. I also recall the shaft size on the 18" one was either 1/2" or 5/8" which is really nice for using the shopsmith couplers.

As far as mounting are you planning on going to the tubes, or are you going to use the main table of the shopsmith or, "other" means? I guess some of that will depend on if you go belt or direct or couple drive.

I did for a while think about a standalone version that I could mount on a workmate. Prime advantage is that you only need a 1/4 HP motor and I have at least 2 or 3 or maybe more of them in the shop. The 1/4 HP motor uses less watts then running the shopsmith thus is more "green" and of course would be that many less hours of wear and tear on the shopsmith. In the end my plans call for a shopsmith mount due to space requirements... think thickness of the sandflee for height (well close to that height accounting for the fact it wouldn't have the metal top so the strength would make it somewhat thicker).

I went out and watch 4 of the video on sketchup and downloaded the software. I have yet to install it. I saw no indication of a sheetmetal package. Does it highlight componet interferrence, could find anythat about that either?? I have a sheet metal design I want to do and to get it right I may have to pull out my old drafting table and do it the old way if I can remember how to do it anymore... hey its been only 38 years since I did that last.

Ed

tom_k/mo wrote:Ed, There are a number of sheetmetal plugins for ShetchUp. Here's one that's rather interesting...

Now I'm more interested!

Thanks for the info!

Ed

tom_k/mo wrote:Ed, There are a number of sheetmetal plugins for ShetchUp. Here's one that's rather interesting...

I have been reading the many posts regarding sketchup and have mostly discarded the thought of using it because I had tried and didn't see it to be all that impressive.

Then I saw many of your threads and have wondered at your drawings. I went back to try doing some 3d drawing. Had some limited success. Watched a couple of the tutorial videos and now I have a question.

I have the free Google download and have pulled in no plugins. How many tools should I then have on my desktop? In the tutorials, there appears to be many more tools than I have; three rows/columns of tools. I have 1 row with 22 different tools.

Dusty, I keep the large toolset and views toolbars displayed. Most all of the video tutorials have the large toolset toolbar displayed. Click on the Views menu and select Toolbars option and you can turn on or turn off toolbars. Check the attached picture for reference. If you're having troubles getting up to speed with SketchUp or need help, shoot me a PM with a number, and I'll call you and help you out.

Thanks Tom. That answered the question I had. By clicking on the "Large Tool Set" I now have what I was asking about.

Now all I have to do is learn how to use it all.

Thanks again.

I have made a decision to power the Drum Sander with the MKV. I ordered a 5/8 motor arbor from Woodcraft for $5.99 so now I have some way to mount the pulley to the SS. Going this route I had to re-design the table. I plan on using T-Nuts mounted on the bottom to fasten it to the table while in use. On this one I incorporated a drawer to store sandpaper rolls, linkbelt and arbor when the sander is not in use.

This may be totally irrelevent at this point, but Shop Notes did a drum sander a while back. It was powered by a pulley mounted in place of the saw blade on a table saw. Might be worth a look for design ideas. I don't know which issue as I'm in Tampa right now and everything is up north.

The ShopNotes thickness sander plan is in Vol. 15 Issue 86 March/April 2006 page 28. The design has the sanding drum above a hand-crank driven conveyor belt. Take a look at it at:
http://www.shopnotes.com/issues/086/ext ... ss-sander/

Regards,
Dwight