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I have ordered a 63mm pulley wheel for the motor spindel. That should slow the drum up to about 1800 rpm. I can collect the pulley wheel on Tuesday, so as soon as I have installed it I will post the results. Might be useful for anyone else who is thinking of building one. In retrospect I think...

What is wrong with shadows? An unintended ugly big dark area in a picture or your own shadow cast over the object is obviously not good but a shadow actually helps to create depth. The only reason for trying to take photographs without a shadow is when you want to use the image against another...

No this is a drum sander designed in the 1950's so it just spins like a bat out of somewhere. No oscillation involved. I am considering trying a smaller pulley wheel on the motor spindel to see if that corrects this problem. I have a feeling that the frightening rate at which it hurtles is part...

I am starting to think that the speed the drum is rotating might be the problem. Thank you for the offer of reshipping. I can get my Dad to send me the stuff. It is just a bit of a hassel that it will take a week or so every time I need new supplies. I also noticed that sanding belt suppliers...

I have tried using linnen backed sanding belts from belt sanders that are really heavy duty and they just tear away too! The remains of the sandpaper that can be seen on the drum lasted longer! CSM sell sticky back velcro and velourbacked paper abrasive for drum sanders but they don't ship...

Stupid questions are always welcome :D because they are sometimes not as silly as you think. I hold the wood back slightly as I feed it over the table and under the roller, once it is almost all the way through I catch on the other side and ensure that it finishes the passage at more or less the...

Thanks for your suggestion Dave. However I built the sander to the dimensions that many other people have used before me and no one has every suggested that in retrospect they wished that the drum had been larger. It is 95mm in diametre and 435mm wide, the plans asked for 3 3/4 inches so I am...

Some pictures of my now completed Drum Sander. I am struggling to find the right abrasive loads for the sander. I have tried paper backed and linnen backed abrasives but they both shear off at the brackets after 10 minutes of sanding. Any ideas where I am going wrong? I could go down down the...

I was truly astonished by the improvement a 2 piece Clifton Cap Iron made to my Bailey No.5. :D The blade holds the sharpened edge for a lot longer with this cap iron. I sent Matthew at Workshop Heaven an email to ask him which blade and I should purchase and he told me to buy a clifton cap...

I also thoroughly enjoyed this work in progress. As we all now know how do build one now they will be popping up everywhere :D . Please keep posting your projects they are trully inspirational!

Thanks for the sage advice about buying an older machine but in good condition. :D I have noticed that before too, suddenly you end up miles away from woodwork embroiled in metalwork and machine restoration.

No doubt you will soon be snowed under with commissions for prize winning pieces. :D As though the Davenport your building isn't proof enough of your tremendous skill as a cabinet maker! Now people know your furniture actually wins prizes and is used as backdrops for top end machinery...

Well they used to be cheap until 124 people read this post and went straight to Ebay to look for a spoke shave! :) Useful advice mind you.

I have seen an old kity thicknesser for sale but it doesn't have an extraction hood. The seller said that they had been available but he had never bothered with one. Both your remarks confirm what I had suspected, I will probably need a nasty modern one if I want decent dust and chip extraction...

I am considering buying a thicknesser. :) Should I go for a big bad old robust model that has some life left in it or one of these mobile things like Axminster and Metabo sells? :? My first instinct is to go for an older more robust machine but... many of my older machines have, have been a...

I was under the distinct impression that was how it worked too, first the buyer pays and then you dispatch the parcel. The only time I ever had a parcel go missing it was returned to me eventually and it turned out that the buyer had given me the wrong house number! I could demonstrate this and...

It is a real disgrace that Ebay take so little notice of such a stupid geographical mistake. Lots of people restrict where they are willing to send stuff to on Ebay because they claim they have been ripped off in the past. Perhaps some people have difficulty with foreign addresses. I reckon it...

I'm a member of that group too. The parts are still available from a French company. The Inca user forum has PDFs of all the instruction books for Inca machines which can be very useful!

It is very annoying when they do this. If you send them an email they usually get back to you within 24 hours.

I have a Swiss made Inca bandsaw of the same type, except for the fact that the motor is underneath the table. I don't suppose the later French ones were any less well built as Inca still made all the castings. Inca made the castings for Hasselblad camera's. There is a Hasselblad on the Moon...