Radial arm saw conversion

[Mr.Thomas Aaron Hero]

I needed a sander to grind steel and I dont want to use my disc/belt sander on anything but wood so I tore apart an old Crapsman radial arm saw that I didnt need and couldnt sell and turned it into a 12"disc sander,It will also function as a drum sander as soon as I build another attachment. it rotates 180 degrees and has a buffer attachment on the other end of the motor, I just removed the entire head assembly off the overhead arm.The motor rotates on both axis so there are a bunch of different configurations to play with. A.H.

[Mr.Thomas Aaron Hero]

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o31/aaronhero_2006/sander006.jpg


Forgot the pic! A.H.

[norman]

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Lookin good!

Those things can really make some dust too, can't they? The real fine stuff that goes everywhere. I usually just open the garage door and point a junky box fan out the door to get rid of the dust. When it's cold outside, (door closed) I use a bungie cord to hold a couple pleated filters on the intake side of the box fan for a quicky air filtering machine. It works pretty well.

[Mr.Thomas Aaron Hero]

This thing will mostly be grinding steel,My disc/belt sander on the other hand is a dust making factory!I just recently installed a dust collection system in my shop and the belt sander was the first machine to get hooked up,I wish I would have done it along time ago. Thanks! A.H.

[jimt]

> This thing will mostly be grinding steel,My
> disc/belt sander on the other hand is a dust
> making factory!I just recently installed a
> dust collection system in my shop and the
> belt sander was the first machine to get
> hooked up,I wish I would have done it along
> time ago. Thanks! A.H.

When I lived in Florida I had access to a 36" disc sander. Now that was a machine, but you had to respect it or it could destroy a speaker cabinet in the blink of an eye.