Woodworker's Journal Summer-2008, страница 54
Drum Sanding Station Take the chore out of sanding curves and give your drill press a facelift with this versatile sanding station. By Chris Marshall Woodworking doesn't involve much drudgery, but I can think of three tedious chores: Scraping dried glue, cleaning pitch off saw blades and, of course, sanding. Concerning that last one, sanding curves is the worst type —especially when you have to do it by hand. If you're still wrapping sandpaper around dowels and sanding till your arm goes numb, it's time to convert your drill press into a drum sander. There's a low-tech approach to drum sanding that I didn't adopt here. You could just chuck the sanding drum and lower it partially into a hole in a board clamped to your drill press table. That option didn't work for me. I needed a place to store all the different drum sizes and sanding sleeves that come with a drum sanding kit. I also needed to stash my Forstner bits, hole cutters and other drilling doodads, so a drawer seemed in order. Equally important, the sanding-drum-and-board approach doesn't keep dust at bay — and that's a real issue if you have lots of curves to clean up. My sanding station satisfies all these needs. Essentially, it's a two-compart ment cabinet with an oversized top and a base that clamps to your drill press. The top compartment serves as a dust extraction chamber with an adapter port that attaches to a 272M -diameter shop vacuum hose. The lower compartment houses a storage drawer just big enough to hold a healthy collection of sanding sundries. Although I could have cut an oversize hole in the worktop to make room for the sanding drum, I installed a router table plate instead. Because it lifts off, it gives you plenty of access to the dust collection chamber whenever a sanding drum or drill bit accidentally slips down inside. Plus, most plates, including the Rockler aluminum router plate I use for my setup, come with interchangeable inserts. Just bore one out to fit around each size of sanding drum you own. One other benefit to this project is that you can use it for either sanding or routine drilling. I never take mine off the drill press. The worktop overhangs provide plenty of room for clamping a fence or drilling jigs in The author slips a pair of 4!4"-wide spacers inside the cabinet to position the divider while installing it. The spacers ensure that the 4" drawer sides will slide smoothly. 54 drum sanding station |
