TRASH TO TREASURE
May 04, 2020
5 minutes
By Nigel Young
Photograph: Nigel Young and Juliet Nicholas
The motor was now self-contained, and moving the rotary sander became much easier
I love working with pallet wood as the colours are so amazing, and watching a YouTube video on making a small rotary sander inspired me to make one in order to facilitate preparation.
The basis of my sander was an old lathe headstock paired with an adjustable top from a home-made saw bench on a chassis of solid timber, with a one-third horsepower motor providing the power. The chance find of a water blaster that had been thrown out gave me the idea for mounting the motor in a way that was more portable — one-third horsepower motors are surprisingly heavy, and I needed a way to fix it in relation to the sander while keeping the whole thing transportable.
I removed the water
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