Hammer sanding attachment.
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cliffp
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I would not give this a 100% recommendation. It is very expensive for what it achieves and it is time consuming to set up. You get a number of steel rods plus a couple (or three) of aluminium blocks into which the rods are inserted. There is also the platen (the piece of steel that goes behind and supports the belt). There are 2 of these, one for providing flat support (sanding flat) and one curved (basically just a rod) for sanding curved surfaces.
Before fitting you have to remove the upper bandsaw blade guides leaving just the vertical rod. You also need to remove or adjust out of the way, the lower guides. You then mount the sanding belt and attach the various blocks, rods and platen. You adjust everything so that when the belt is under tension, the platen it in the right place and properly aligned.
I only tried it out very briefly and it seemed to work ok but it obviously isn't suitable for sanding large surfaces very accurately because the belt is narrow. The belt is also so stiff that if you use the curved platen, you don't achieve the ability to sand tight radii - barely any different to the flat platen.
You could save time in the set up by leaving the various rods, blocks and platen assembled and just attaching the whole assembly as one piece.
You do also have the inconvenience of having to align your bandsaw supports again when you put these back.
If I was to turn back the clock I might consider buying an oscillating spindle sander such as the Jet Jbos-5 instead.
Cliff
Before fitting you have to remove the upper bandsaw blade guides leaving just the vertical rod. You also need to remove or adjust out of the way, the lower guides. You then mount the sanding belt and attach the various blocks, rods and platen. You adjust everything so that when the belt is under tension, the platen it in the right place and properly aligned.
I only tried it out very briefly and it seemed to work ok but it obviously isn't suitable for sanding large surfaces very accurately because the belt is narrow. The belt is also so stiff that if you use the curved platen, you don't achieve the ability to sand tight radii - barely any different to the flat platen.
You could save time in the set up by leaving the various rods, blocks and platen assembled and just attaching the whole assembly as one piece.
You do also have the inconvenience of having to align your bandsaw supports again when you put these back.
If I was to turn back the clock I might consider buying an oscillating spindle sander such as the Jet Jbos-5 instead.
Cliff
mikeomalley
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Thanks Cliff, This is something I have considered, think it will be the bobbin sander now.
Mike
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Went with the Jet Oscillating sander in the end.
Happy with it except the dust extraction leaves a lot to be desired.
So I improved it using a few pieces of waste plastic and rubber.
Here you see just open space with Jets dust shute in the rear... The green rubber I added also.
When it changes to 45 degrees this side is closed quite good. But the other side opens so I made another green rubber shroud that covers that opening.
Here you see the main plastic easily removable cover fitted whilst the table is in 90 degrees....
So all the suction is now pulled down through the slots in the cover plates.
Happy with it except the dust extraction leaves a lot to be desired.
So I improved it using a few pieces of waste plastic and rubber.
Here you see just open space with Jets dust shute in the rear... The green rubber I added also.
When it changes to 45 degrees this side is closed quite good. But the other side opens so I made another green rubber shroud that covers that opening.
Here you see the main plastic easily removable cover fitted whilst the table is in 90 degrees....
So all the suction is now pulled down through the slots in the cover plates.
