Spindel Sander Table Riser

[glenn bradley]

I hope this isn't a repeat. I had a little spindle work to do today. I had made ver-1 of this idea 6 or 7 years ago out of some scrap from breaking down an old Ikea or Wal-Mart TV stand. Like other things I am sure we all have it has never made it to ver-2 since ver-1 just works.
Most of my material that gets spindle sanded is 6/4 or less. This means I only use a portion of the sleeve. I saw some clever guy in one of the trade rags do this after a fashion and stole the idea. I now pass it on once-removed

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I have the commercial throat plates for this sander but don't use them with this rig which pretty much lives on the machine.

Just in case I hadn't shown the dust port extensions that make shop-vac hookup easy . . .

I cut the old TV stand into squares. I marked out the table position and sank some dowels to act as positioners.

The piece in the foreground in the above pic sets on the table. The double dowels on opposing corners keep things stable.

The four holes in the corners of the smaller pieces have dowels inserted halfway through.

The extended dowel slips into the remaining hole of the next unit, etc.

This lets me use a little or a lot of the spindle. It also allows me to choose a location on the spindle to use. Just one of those things that was slapped together and then lasts for years

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[Toni Ciuraneta]

Cool idea, what I have been doing up to now is flipping the cilynder when it is worn out, but iy leaves the central part of it barely used. Thanks for showing it, as always the simplest solutions are the harder ones to stumble on.

 

[Mike Stafford]

Now that's a good idea. Some company may start offering table risers as accessories.

 

[glenn bradley]

I wish I could remember where I stole this idea so I could give proper credit ;-)