Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Belt Sander Table

The latest project...

This belt sander was my Grandfather's.  He originally had it set up so that it was about a foot off the ground.  That made it very difficult to work on projects since you essentially needed to be sitting on the ground to use it.  Finally, the drive belt started shredding and it became unusable.  Since I could not find a belt the right size, I decided to rebuild it with a fairly common and inexpensive belt that can be found in any hardware store.  Here's how it turned out...

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