Thread: Drum Sander ok in morse taper DrillPress

Joe,
Have you seen this one W.A.S.P. Sander.
I haven't got one nor an interest in it, but have seen it demonstrated and looks to be a pretty good idea if you are after something like that - maybe worth considering.

Joe

If the morse taper is a good quality fit there will be no problems. It is when one has a dodgy fit that it can come out. However the idea is to have the a board on the drill bed, a few mm below the end of the drum. Your workpiece is supported by the board and should the morse taper let go the drum will just stop. No danger at all unless someone invents one!

Seems like I'm sending this to myself
Cya
Joe

Thanks for the Replys.


I thought all would be fine, I'll make sure I have the drillpress table nice and close to the sanding drum.

Thanks
Joe

Joe

I have one that I set up in my drill press. It is important to build a table top for your drill press top so that the sander will sit just below its surface. You just need a board (plywood) with a hole drilled in it large enough to fit the sander, and clamp it on top. This is not for safety (although Joe - Gatiep makes a valid point here) but rather that you are able to sand the entire height of the timber with which you are working. Make several such boards to fit each diameter sander.

Regards from Perth

Derek

I have one working well in a morse tapered drill press chuck.
You can get that same set for $75 from here

Like Derek, I've got a set ($30) for my drill press that work great. And yes you need a table to make proper use of them. I made up a table that was in Shopnotes #57 Shopnotes. I've seen many other variation on this, in this forum/magazines/web.

Have a look at Sturdee

Also Timbecon sell a table for $149 Timbecon but you can make it for way less (see forum for sources of aluminum track)

Its a very good idea to use the correct speeds (see Wood Magazine speed chart):
Speed Chart

Stephen

Thanks for all you help Stephen

That speed chart will come in handy.

I bought the timber to build a drill press table lastnight, and it turns out I live about 200m from a supplier of the aluminium track.

Thanks again
Joe

Joe, its a good idea to also add some sort of dust extraction. The shopnotes version uses a vacumm cleaner and that works great to suck the dust down between the drum and table top (a couple of mm's). Shortly I'll add something to the top surface when drilling holes etc similair to what Sturdee did.

BigPete, on the topic of the WASP sander, check out the latest Shopnotes #72 in which they build up a simple belt sander on a drill press.

Stephen,
Thanks for that - looks like it would work pretty well too