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Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:25 pm
by MakinSawdust
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]
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:14 pm
by edma194
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.
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:39 pm
by rpd
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]
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 12:19 pm
by wrmnfzy
Would PVC be an option to the cardboard drum?
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 5:41 pm
by SkullsquadronX
I have seen two u-tube videos with a PVC as a drum sander. Going to use PVC when I make mine.
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:18 pm
by Chad
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
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:10 pm
by MakinSawdust
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"
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:15 pm
by thedovetailjoint
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
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:20 pm
by edma194
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.
Re: Homemade Shopsmith drumsander using a cardboard drum
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:13 pm
by reible
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