The Smallest Workshop in the World

Step 3 2. Disk Sander

My very old drill was used to become my disk sander. Mounted under the table with a sanding wheel velcro attachment and a sanding table makes perfect job.

With the help of a friend we rewired the drill’s electrical functions and put everything in an electrical socket box. On and Off switch - Forward and reverse - Fast and Slow fixed speed - adjustable speed control, all functions run smoothly and it’s so handy (see picture below).

The sander’s table is attached with two threaded inserts on the tool-bench, bolds and wing nuts through the table to tighten it to the bench.

The sanding table has several functions, one is the use of a simple T-square for parallel sanding, has an angle guide for sanding miters and a circle sanding jig attachment for cutting perfect circles from very small ones up to 12 inches (30cm) diameter circles.

Comments

[whodatrat]

 Hi The motor control used for the sander was icing on the cake. Any hint on how one would go about tackling this circuit ? Eg  what are the individual components?
Thank you
Michael

[2 stroke]

why not put a zip tie n the drill trigger and splice a dimmer switch i the cord to control the speed

[steliart]

Sorry can't help on that, it was the only thing that was done for me

[harvey639]

 what does cw and ccw stand for?

[steliart]

CW = clockwise
CCW = counterclockwise