Sanding Drum


Appearances: Episodes

  1. 101, 104
  2. 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213
  3. 301, 308
  4. 402, 403, 408, 409, 410, 413
  5. 507, 508
  6. 601, 604, 606, 609
    and possibly more.

These slick things allow you to use ordinary sheets of sand paper to make up sanding drums. The drums themselves come in a variety of sizes and include instructions on making a template for cutting the sandpaper to fit. It was used by Norm a lot until, as he says on the NYW webpage, “it died.” They're a great tool, unless you can have an oscillating spindle sander. Norm used them mostly in the drill press, but there were a couple of occasions when he used them in a corded drill.

Norm has also used a conventional sanding drum with pre-made sleeves, but I'm not going to separate the instances of that from the use of these.

Last updated: 26 August 2005