Clever idea using the wiper motor. Nice build. This idea came to mind when you mentioned removing the piece used for dust collection - stapling a heavy fabric over the area and if that area needs a dust port cut out a ring of wood with the inside diameter matching the hose and the outer diameter large enough to allow for a channel to be cut into the outer surface of the ring so that after the fabric is placed around the outside a hose clamp can be used to keep the fabric in place.
Great video Simon, reading through some of the comments I notice there is a lot of com/voicements about your accent, I grew up in South London and never gave your accent a second thought, it was all clear enough for me. on another point, I bought my first impact driver last year and was blown away at how good they are, well worth the investment when funds allow. Many thanks for sharing and for the good editing.
Well done. What sets this instructional video apart from most others is you begin with the finished product being used in real time. With that, it's easy to visualize where everything from Step One goes into the sander. Windshield wiper motor is just genius. Make something else!
REALLY IMPRESSIVE engineering! Concise video. Cogent commentary. Clever ideas. Craftsmanship. You Sir, give me hope for the future! Thumbs up and subbed!
Sir thank you for posting this video. I went to the scrap yard and picked up a couple wiper motors and made your or my sander. I did all of it with hand tools. I chucked the metal rod in a hand drill and turned it down with a file.A jig for my drill lets me hold it true. Guess what it works, cool.
Great build, really well thought through. I laughed out loud when you mentioned the problem with designing things in CAD first and them turning out larger than you expected - been there many times.
Well yes - kudos for a job well-done and the good documentation. I need an oscillating sander and didn't want to waste money on a DIY plastic one. But after watching the hassle of making the mechanism I don't think I'm up for it. Building This project is much more about problem-solving and personal satisfaction than building a sander - the machining alone is outside my shop capacity and personal patience quotient
Brilliant work, Simon! One suggestion that might make things a bit easier for others: keep an eye out for discarded computer printers. Inside, they often have the precision-ground rods and bushings that could be adapted to this project. I'm a big believer in scrounging. Given your interest in ancient arms and armor, I expect your next project will be a STEn MkII!
Enjoyed the video very much. I'm from south west and use hearing aids. so I did struggle with the verbal descriptions. Gotta say though MIND BLOWN. Just a beginner myself, 48 years old. Think I might have left it too late.
It's funny, I still see myself as a beginner too. Only really been doing it for a couple of years, so I don't think 48 is too late to start. I've found hobby engineering (or whatever you'd call it) pretty pleasant since there's plenty of good clear information out there. Wish I could say the same for 3d modelling... I'll probably look into the youtube subtitles feature for the next video I make.
Спасибо большое за видео. Имею в цеху свободный электродвигатель. Хочу из него сделать осциллирующий шлифовальный станок. Теперь знаю,как это сделать. Еще раз спасибо!
Excellent video, I love despite the repeated issues you came across you merely dealt with it and continued on with your original build. A tip for drawing in 3D, make something you know the size of, so you can reference against what your working on for example make a box the size of a lap top, or of a 2 liter bottle, or 12oz can. Its a great way to compare scale.
Great project! Thanks for taking the time to document it... I had to chuckle at your comment at how big it turned out compared to what you saw on the computer screen :o)
Genius work ! Thanks for your video, after watching it I remember my wobbling (cheap) Scheppach OSM 100 sander. Maybe I can fix it after watching your video. Cheers & keep up the good work.
Amazing effort and very nice details. Still I can see that the effort that goes behind making one in the share amount of materials and hours justify me buying one that is factory built
Whilst I think you have done a good job I have to say that most of us don't have your space or equipment. Also if you had to add up all the cost of materials plus all your construction time and planning I seriously wonder if it would be just as well to buy a machine either new or second hand and spend the same time making a piece of furniture. If I were to attempt to make a machine it would have to be quick, simple and easy. With all that said- Well Done.
So I came over here from pocket83's channel and binge watched most of what you've uploaded. Damn, you've got a brilliant way of doing things, especially with the tools you have at your disposal! Good job! I'd take a crack at doing some myself, but I'm a woodworker and not a metal worker at all. Nonetheless, I enjoyed watching you do what you do, and will continue to look forward to each video you put out!
great job must have taken a lot of time in building this , i find its a joy making your own tools/ jigs within reason , no disrepect to you but surely it would have been cheaper to buy one from e-bay or something like that . but well done
It might take more time than most people have, but I do feel it was alot cheaper than buying an equivalent model would've been (outside of a fluke bargain). The cheaper model spindle sanders have small tables that don't tilt, and the spindles are limited in height. This is all stuff that can be altered but I figure once you do that it's probably not much extra effort to just build one from scratch. It took me just over a week to build this thing, and a large amount of the delay was spent waiting for the steady rest to arrive (which didn't work out like I was hoping either). Plus the nice thing about something like this is that I'm free to muck it up. I'll be drilling holes into the table at some point in the future for mounting attachments, and i'm not sure if id be as comfortable doing that if i'd just dropped several hundred pounds on a nice cast iron deal.
Nice job on the sander its hard to tell on the video. But it is my guess that using the wiper motor also helps to reduce the overall noise level of the sander. As well of course its not really. A quiet. Machine although. It sounds. A lot quieter than my old Makita belt sander !
very interesting , you have a metal lathe and of course you have to know how to make the bits for the lathe and know how to keep them sharpened, a nice drill but you are still using a hacksaw to cut metal. that should be your next project, you are one smart person. very well presented video.
Cool video and a real cool machine, one thing though, I'd insulate those electrical wires and separate them from the dust which can easily ignite from an arc or just static electric.
The wires are mostly all covered with electrical tape (just the spade plugs on the switch are left bare since I ran out of big shrink tubing) and dust should hopefully not reach the inside of the box anyways. But thanks for the concern.
It's the "mostly" and "helpfully" that give the most to be concerned about, from your accent, I detect that you run 230 Volts there, that's DANGEROUS, and if there is no Grounding, you're in danger of Static Electric too that can ark/spark!
A really good job Daniel. It's so nice to see a RUclips project with decent workflows and well planed and documented design. I;d be interested in what your background is and what you are doing for a living nine years after uploading this video? Perhaps you have a milling machine now? They help to keep everything aligned and holes in exactly the right location. I will be checking out your channel righter after I post this. BTW I am a retired toolmaker and have a decent wood workshop at home, but I also belong to a local Menz Shed which has a good metal shop as well as professional woodworking machines. We pay NZ$25 a year to have access to that equipment. You might have a Mens Shed close to you - just a thought Daniel.
Wow, a masterclass in (wood) engineering! The finished tool clearly does a great job at shaping to a line and leaving a superbly clean edge - I want one. Just a couple of comments: given that you have an enviable collection of power tools, it surprised me to see you using a ratchet screwdriver left over from mid last century. Second, please speak slightly slower and enunciate carefully, I'm a Brit but still couldn't catch everything you said. That apart, bravo, great video.
Thanks for the comment! I mostly buy tools as I need them, and they're usually the cheapest of their kind available (or good luck at boot sales). I do have a battery powered drill now, but i've found that it doesn't have the torque to really drive screws, so i'm still using the ratchet screwdriver. A better quality impact driver or something would be nice, but I don't really have the money to spare on buying one just for the convenience. Also sorry about the voice. I have a hard time getting a balance between being more understandable but also not sounding too much like a depressing robot. Plus I just talk like an idiot in general. Recording audio is my least favourite part of making videos. I usually write what i'm saying beforehand since i'm not great at coming up with commentary unprepared, and then read each line at least 3 times. Then I get to enjoy listening to myself talk for 2 hours while I try select the best takes, join different takes together, and edit out dry mouth sounds. I guess the results don't seem great, but I still think it's better than me trying to talk naturally (like in that terrible tablesaw video).
Thanks for the lengthy reply. I share your approach to acquiring tools, I always look to see if I can improvise, modify or make something before parting with cash - I manage on a minuscule pension. The same goes for materials; it amazes me what people throw out, and which I can put to good use in my workshop. A week ago, I found in the street two 8 X 4 sheets of a plastic material, precisely what I needed for mounting a wall chart amongst other applications. Would have cost a good £30 in a shop. Re the language; try imagining that you are talking to foreigners (because in large part you are) and make the words distinct. I agree that voicing from a script is a good idea, it will minimise irritating gap-fillers such as 'um', 'er' and so on. But this is all minor stuff - you produced a superb video, thanks.
Epic Work !! You've earned a subscriber :D, though i dont like it's vertical height and think i can make it shorter, nevertheless, AWESOME ! i'm going to steal the car wiper motor idea and replace it with a window motor
+Hashem Mehyar I'm guessing but I would say that a window motor is not spec'ed for continuous operation and would therefore likely burn out in this application.
Tony Colliver I actually tried it, drilled holes on the motor sides for cooling, used an 8-V supply, and tested it for half an hour no-load. it got warm but it's very tolerable. The most i've used my current spindle sander was 10 minutes, so it could work
Wow, this is a brilliant video simon, i wish i had space in my shed for something like this. You are like the british version of matthias wandell from what ive seen of the titles and thumbnails of your other videos, im looking forward to having a look through and hoping to find some inspiration for a project :) Liked and subscribed, all the best Dan.
Great job. I've just bought an off the shelf one, it frustrates me that it doesn't have enough travel on the up down motion to use all the sand paper. With a bit of gearing adjustment you could get yours to move a full stroke. How do you secure the sandpaper on? On mine the drum is rubber and by tightening down on the spindle nut a washer compresses the whole drum and expands it to grip the sand paper.
Hello ... I congratulate you very good video very successful everything .... and an excellent workshop ..... I would really like to know if you can invent something like to realize the draft or perforated of the blinds or blinds of the wood, the machine In if it is called lattice cutter .... I hope and you can create something .... thank you very much for your time .... greetings
For the time you build it you could've bought two or three of the cheap ones and who has a steel lath in there shop but good job and making it how long did take to make it
Clever idea using the wiper motor. Nice build.
This idea came to mind when you mentioned removing the piece used for dust collection - stapling a heavy fabric over the area and if that area needs a dust port cut out a ring of wood with the inside diameter matching the hose and the outer diameter large enough to allow for a channel to be cut into the outer surface of the ring so that after the fabric is placed around the outside a hose clamp can be used to keep the fabric in place.
Great video Simon, reading through some of the comments I notice there is a lot of com/voicements about your accent, I grew up in South London and never gave your accent a second thought, it was all clear enough for me. on another point, I bought my first impact driver last year and was blown away at how good they are, well worth the investment when funds allow. Many thanks for sharing and for the good editing.
Well done. What sets this instructional video apart from most others is you begin with the finished product being used in real time. With that, it's easy to visualize where everything from Step One goes into the sander.
Windshield wiper motor is just genius. Make something else!
Excellent job - beats my idea of putting the spindle on the drill press. Good job. Nothing beats the satisfaction of making it yourself.
REALLY IMPRESSIVE engineering!
Concise video.
Cogent commentary.
Clever ideas.
Craftsmanship.
You Sir, give me hope for the future!
Thumbs up and subbed!
Sir thank you for posting this video. I went to the scrap yard and picked up a couple wiper motors and made your or my sander. I did all of it with hand tools. I chucked the metal rod in a hand drill and turned it down with a file.A jig for my drill lets me hold it true. Guess what it works, cool.
Nice job there and also a fantastic effort in documenting the build. Well done
Great build, really well thought through. I laughed out loud when you mentioned the problem with designing things in CAD first and them turning out larger than you expected - been there many times.
Well yes - kudos for a job well-done and the good documentation. I need an oscillating sander and didn't want to waste money on a DIY plastic one. But after watching the hassle of making the mechanism I don't think I'm up for it. Building This project is much more about problem-solving and personal satisfaction than building a sander - the machining alone is outside my shop capacity and personal patience quotient
Not to mention it would probably cost more to make than it would to buy one.
Brilliant work, Simon! One suggestion that might make things a bit easier for others: keep an eye out for discarded computer printers. Inside, they often have the precision-ground rods and bushings that could be adapted to this project. I'm a big believer in scrounging. Given your interest in ancient arms and armor, I expect your next project will be a STEn MkII!
Outstanding build! It's refreshing to see your ingenuity and craftsmanship! Well done!!
Enjoyed the video very much. I'm from south west and use hearing aids. so I did struggle with the verbal descriptions. Gotta say though MIND BLOWN.
Just a beginner myself, 48 years old. Think I might have left it too late.
It's funny, I still see myself as a beginner too. Only really been doing it for a couple of years, so I don't think 48 is too late to start. I've found hobby engineering (or whatever you'd call it) pretty pleasant since there's plenty of good clear information out there. Wish I could say the same for 3d modelling...
I'll probably look into the youtube subtitles feature for the next video I make.
Спасибо большое за видео. Имею в цеху свободный электродвигатель. Хочу из него сделать осциллирующий шлифовальный станок. Теперь знаю,как это сделать. Еще раз спасибо!
This is amazing on so many different levels........incredible work. Is there a RUclips Hall of Fame? Thanks for sharing this.
This is absolutely incredible. I'm looking forward to the English translation ;)
Me too!
Great project, with nice explanations of overcoming the issues that arose. Well done.
Hey Simon. I just made a youtube account to be able to comment on your amazing machine! You are an inspiration. Keep up the good work.
Thanks very much!
Very nice build Simon!
Excellent video, I love despite the repeated issues you came across you merely dealt with it and continued on with your original build. A tip for drawing in 3D, make something you know the size of, so you can reference against what your working on for example make a box the size of a lap top, or of a 2 liter bottle, or 12oz can. Its a great way to compare scale.
Very well done. Both the video and the sander. I truly envy you your know how. Keep up the great work.
Incredible craftsmanship.
Wow! You've got some serious creative genius!
Very nice machine. Well thought out.
Great project! Thanks for taking the time to document it... I had to chuckle at your comment at how big it turned out compared to what you saw on the computer screen :o)
Wow what a nice build to watch. Makes me wish I had an engineers mind
Great engineering, I would like to think I could give it a try, but it would take many months. Thank you for sharing.
Genius work ! Thanks for your video, after watching it I remember my wobbling (cheap) Scheppach OSM 100 sander. Maybe I can fix it after watching your video. Cheers & keep up the good work.
Nice build Daniel along with another great video and narration
Amazing effort and very nice details. Still I can see that the effort that goes behind making one in the share amount of materials and hours justify me buying one that is factory built
You've got a lot of skill there fella.
Thoroughly impressed! And fun to watch.
Nice M8 well built and good design, thanks for shareing
Very nice, Simon! Thanks a lot for sharing.
great work and thanks for the sketchup model. I will work on that and split it out into layers to make it easier to work with.
Nice build, and I have to say best ending I have seen in a built it video!
man i commend you for putting all this work into it. great job.
Lovely to see some nice lathe work
Very nice. You might want to consider using cutting oil when drilling and cutting steel or iron. Smoother cut and saves your bits.
Whilst I think you have done a good job I have to say that most of us don't have your space or equipment. Also if you had to add up all the cost of materials plus all your construction time and planning I seriously wonder if it would be just as well to buy a machine either new or second hand and spend the same time making a piece of furniture. If I were to attempt to make a machine it would have to be quick, simple and easy. With all that said- Well Done.
That is nice. Thanks for the link I'll be downloading the plans next.
So I came over here from pocket83's channel and binge watched most of what you've uploaded. Damn, you've got a brilliant way of doing things, especially with the tools you have at your disposal! Good job!
I'd take a crack at doing some myself, but I'm a woodworker and not a metal worker at all. Nonetheless, I enjoyed watching you do what you do, and will continue to look forward to each video you put out!
Excellent design, build , an video
great job must have taken a lot of time in building this , i find its a joy making your own tools/ jigs within reason , no disrepect to you but surely it would have been cheaper to buy one from e-bay or something like that . but well done
It might take more time than most people have, but I do feel it was alot cheaper than buying an equivalent model would've been (outside of a fluke bargain). The cheaper model spindle sanders have small tables that don't tilt, and the spindles are limited in height. This is all stuff that can be altered but I figure once you do that it's probably not much extra effort to just build one from scratch.
It took me just over a week to build this thing, and a large amount of the delay was spent waiting for the steady rest to arrive (which didn't work out like I was hoping either).
Plus the nice thing about something like this is that I'm free to muck it up. I'll be drilling holes into the table at some point in the future for mounting attachments, and i'm not sure if id be as comfortable doing that if i'd just dropped several hundred pounds on a nice cast iron deal.
fantastic narration and build. Thanks.
Nice job on the sander its hard to tell on the video. But it is my guess that using the wiper motor also helps to reduce the overall noise level of the sander. As well of course its not really. A quiet. Machine although. It sounds. A lot quieter than my old Makita belt sander !
very interesting , you have a metal lathe and of course you have to know how to make the bits for the lathe and know how to keep them sharpened, a nice drill but you are still using a hacksaw to cut metal. that should be your next project, you are one smart person. very well presented video.
That was awesome! Impossible for me to make but I enjoyed the video very much!
great work man, you'd be pretty handy in a post apocalyptic world 😊
Great build, well done 👍🏼😊
você tem todas a ferramentas e sabe trabalhar bem está de parabens!!
That's awesome! Best video I've watched in a while.
Great video. It's always a good day when you learn something new. Thanks:)
Wow very cool :) I'd love to have such a sander
Enjoyable watch - sounds like a local lad too!
I live near Blaydon. Glad it's noticeable!
You are my kind of mad scientist!
very good. But quite expensive. Although the satisfaction of making. one with that quality is no changed Greetings.
$$$$ way less then store bought.
Cool video and a real cool machine, one thing though, I'd insulate those electrical wires and separate them from the dust which can easily ignite from an arc or just static electric.
The wires are mostly all covered with electrical tape (just the spade plugs on the switch are left bare since I ran out of big shrink tubing) and dust should hopefully not reach the inside of the box anyways. But thanks for the concern.
It's the "mostly" and "helpfully" that give the most to be concerned about, from your accent, I detect that you run 230 Volts there, that's DANGEROUS, and if there is no Grounding, you're in danger of Static Electric too that can ark/spark!
Nice building!
"I still can't resist going wild for that last bit though." -Simon Heslop I laughed out loud at this part, brilliant.
you are the best in work
A really good job Daniel. It's so nice to see a RUclips project with decent workflows and well planed and documented design. I;d be interested in what your background is and what you are doing for a living nine years after uploading this video? Perhaps you have a milling machine now? They help to keep everything aligned and holes in exactly the right location. I will be checking out your channel righter after I post this. BTW I am a retired toolmaker and have a decent wood workshop at home, but I also belong to a local Menz Shed which has a good metal shop as well as professional woodworking machines. We pay NZ$25 a year to have access to that equipment. You might have a Mens Shed close to you - just a thought Daniel.
nice job......looks like it works great......
Nice job! Thanks for sharing
Awesome work!
awesome build.
that was so cool ,well done
Great job. Thanks for posting.
Brilliant job
Wow, a masterclass in (wood) engineering! The finished tool clearly does a great job at shaping to a line and leaving a superbly clean edge - I want one. Just a couple of comments: given that you have an enviable collection of power tools, it surprised me to see you using a ratchet screwdriver left over from mid last century. Second, please speak slightly slower and enunciate carefully, I'm a Brit but still couldn't catch everything you said. That apart, bravo, great video.
Thanks for the comment!
I mostly buy tools as I need them, and they're usually the cheapest of their kind available (or good luck at boot sales). I do have a battery powered drill now, but i've found that it doesn't have the torque to really drive screws, so i'm still using the ratchet screwdriver. A better quality impact driver or something would be nice, but I don't really have the money to spare on buying one just for the convenience.
Also sorry about the voice. I have a hard time getting a balance between being more understandable but also not sounding too much like a depressing robot. Plus I just talk like an idiot in general.
Recording audio is my least favourite part of making videos. I usually write what i'm saying beforehand since i'm not great at coming up with commentary unprepared, and then read each line at least 3 times. Then I get to enjoy listening to myself talk for 2 hours while I try select the best takes, join different takes together, and edit out dry mouth sounds. I guess the results don't seem great, but I still think it's better than me trying to talk naturally (like in that terrible tablesaw video).
Thanks for the lengthy reply. I share your approach to acquiring tools, I always look to see if I can improvise, modify or make something before parting with cash - I manage on a minuscule pension. The same goes for materials; it amazes me what people throw out, and which I can put to good use in my workshop. A week ago, I found in the street two 8 X 4 sheets of a plastic material, precisely what I needed for mounting a wall chart amongst other applications. Would have cost a good £30 in a shop. Re the language; try imagining that you are talking to foreigners (because in large part you are) and make the words distinct. I agree that voicing from a script is a good idea, it will minimise irritating gap-fillers such as 'um', 'er' and so on. But this is all minor stuff - you produced a superb video, thanks.
+Simon Heslop I am amazed at your foresight in making a sheet metal bender BEFORE you actually needed one. ;o)
Gracias amigo por compartir su conocimientos , acabo de hacerlo la máquina estoy muy feliz :) PAPÁ JEHOVÁ le Bendiga en todo y asi será:)
Great video!
Amazing build..
Incredible! Very well done!
Epic Work !! You've earned a subscriber :D, though i dont like it's vertical height and think i can make it shorter, nevertheless, AWESOME ! i'm going to steal the car wiper motor idea and replace it with a window motor
+Hashem Mehyar I'm guessing but I would say that a window motor is not spec'ed for continuous operation and would therefore likely burn out in this application.
Tony Colliver
I actually tried it, drilled holes on the motor sides for cooling, used an 8-V supply, and tested it for half an hour no-load. it got warm but it's very tolerable. The most i've used my current spindle sander was 10 minutes, so it could work
Bottom line... Very ingenious!
Very impressive
Human ingenuity at it best. No way to make this as cheap as one sold at Lowe's or Home Depot. Simon is likely an engineer.
Great job. Thanks for sharing how you made it. It really hogs away material.
Wow, this is a brilliant video simon, i wish i had space in my shed for something like this.
You are like the british version of matthias wandell from what ive seen of the titles and thumbnails of your other videos, im looking forward to having a look through and hoping to find some inspiration for a project :) Liked and subscribed, all the best Dan.
Great job. I've just bought an off the shelf one, it frustrates me that it doesn't have enough travel on the up down motion to use all the sand paper. With a bit of gearing adjustment you could get yours to move a full stroke. How do you secure the sandpaper on? On mine the drum is rubber and by tightening down on the spindle nut a washer compresses the whole drum and expands it to grip the sand paper.
Inspiring and entertaining. Thank you.
Thumbs up and subbed!
Hello ... I congratulate you very good video very successful everything .... and an excellent workshop ..... I would really like to know if you can invent something like to realize the draft or perforated of the blinds or blinds of the wood, the machine In if it is called lattice cutter .... I hope and you can create something .... thank you very much for your time .... greetings
Nice job
well done buddy
Matthias Boa noite, como fez a lixa, colou ou comprou assim?
Excellent work. Would it be possible to increase the amount that the sander drum drops to ensure complete usage of the sandpaper?
Nice job!
GREAT VIDEO
there is so much involved that I don't understand I will either have to buy one or stay with my drill press
Brilliant.
Great video, subscribed!
Good Job
Very clever .
Steve
nice job
Congratulations!!! Great idea!!! Brasil.
Of course, it is made with so many tools. This should be a work that non-instrument can do.
very cool!
For the time you build it you could've bought two or three of the cheap ones and who has a steel lath in there shop but good job and making it how long did take to make it
Nice! Very informative
another blessed child