Old Grinding Wheel

I picked this up a couple of weeks ago from Craigslist.  It's an old 12"x2" grinding wheel.  I can imagine it sitting on a farm at some time in its past.  The stand was angle iron held together with bolts.  As a result, it was a little lopsided.  I went ahead and ground down all the joints and welded them.  In the process, I attempted to straighten it out.  I cleaned all the parts and put it back together.  One last remaining thing to do is to mount the motor and put a switch on it.

Drum Sander Drill-press Attachment

I've been thinking about this for a while.  I think that oscillating drum sanders cost more than I'm willing to pay at the moment.  I thought I would try to make an attachment that I could put on to my drill-press and do something similar.  Here's what I came up with.

It has two different size holes to accommodate two different sanding drums.  Just flip it over.  There's a port hole for the shop vac to keep things clean.  I added a door in the back to clean out anything that may get stuck inside the box.  As cheesy as it sounds, I was thinking of rigging up a foot pedal to work the press up and down so that both hands are free to hold the work piece.

Variac

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I purchased several variacs to use in testing and gently bringing up all of these old tube amplifiers.  I made an enclosure for one of them out of an old UPS that had bit the dust.  Here's how it turned out...

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...