Foot pedal oscillates drill-press sanding drum

[Steef66]

Things can be simple, seen a video of the use of your drill-press as a sanding drum

great idea when you don't have a sanding drum and don't want to buy one. But there was a problem with this setup. It wasn't oscillating!

I found in fine woodworking this picture and it seems that the problem is solved. You keep both hands free to hold your workpiece.


So you can guess what my next tool I will make will be.

 

[Juan María Riera]

Las cosas pueden ser simples, vea un video del uso de su taladro de columna como tambor de lijado

gran idea cuando no tienes un tambor de lijado y no quieres comprar uno. Pero había un problema con esta configuración. ¡No estaba oscilando!

Encontré en carpintería fina esta foto y parece que el problema está solucionado. Mantiene ambas manos libres para sostener su pieza de trabajo.

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Así que pueden adivinar cuál será mi próxima herramienta que haré.

¿Cuando dices que vas a hacer el taladro, te refieres a toda la máquina o solo a ponerle las modificaciones que nos cuentas,,?

 

[Steef66]

When you say you are going to make the drill, do you mean the whole machine or just to put the modifications you tell us about?

No, just the foot pedal and the dust holder on the drill like in the video. I will put in here pictures when ready.

 

[Juan María Riera]

No, solo el guardapolvo del taladro como en el video. Voy a poner aquí fotos cuando esté listo.

Ok

 

[Genesis]

Great idea...... I'm going to build one

Everyone have a great boat-building New Year

 

[Juan María Riera]

Feliz Año Nuevo a todos, con los barcos y con sus vidas

 

[mleonc]

Feliz año 2023 a todos.

 

[Steef66]

The pass 2 days I was working on my oscillating drill press spindle sander.
It just need some modifications on the foot pedal (slips sometimes away). But it does the job and I'm happy with it. Gonna use it a lot.

The part above is simple to remove by a screw. I needed something with a short arm, a long arm would give the pedal short movements.


Dust collection hole



A simple solution, no fancy stuff needed to move the drill press up and down and still keep both hands free.

But I'm still thinking to use a car wind shield motor to attached to the arm. But only if I find one on the second hand market for a few Euro's.
For me it is a sport to keep things at low cost.