Blog series by Jeremy Greiner | updated 09-18-2011 03:57 PM | 1 part | 3845 reads | 8 comments total |
Part 1: Prototype Motor Lift
The last cutting board (still working on the video) I did made me long for a thickness sander. I’ve been wanting to build one for a while with the spare motor I have. I spent a few days prototyping out a motor lift system for a drum sander and here’s the video of the results. I learned that I needed to use thicker rods, but otherwise the general idea will work. I need to figure out a better mechanism to hold the ball bearings, and I need to figure out what I’m going ...