9" Sand Flee?

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9" Sand Flee?

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Does anyone know if the smaller 9" Sand Flee is available in a Shopsmith version? Thanks, Alec
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Hi,

If you take a look on shopsmith for the sand flee this is all that comes up:
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... d-flee.htm

(Side note, I and several other here have built our own versions, mine I called a sand free and used all parts I already had and some scrap plywood to put it together. It uses the 6" sanding drum so it is not very wide but works for a lot of things I do).

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I keep watching this thread to see if anyone will post a picture or a plan for a self made "flee".
A six inch sanding platform would work nicely for crafts.
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Check this out for pictures of a homemade sand flee.

http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthr ... =sand+flee
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kalynzoo wrote:I keep watching this thread to see if anyone will post a picture or a plan for a self made "flee".
A six inch sanding platform would work nicely for crafts.
Hi,
Here was my 6-inch-drum solution:
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2116

I did not record exact dimensions on it but the table is pretty flexible. When I said 5 inches was taken out of the old 500-table-tie-bar, that figure was pretty exact.

(In recent weeks I confirmed that this unit works at either side of the headstock, due to the symmetrical placement of the quill-axis in the headstock. However, in order to use it where the lathe-tail-center usually resides, it's best to remove the table carriage from the way-tubes.)
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very cool. Thank you for the pic.
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As far as I can tell, the 9-inch version of the Sand-Flee is not available from Shopsmith, though it will make a nice addition if they did.
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