Lathe Disk Sander. No, it's not a hamster house under construction in the title picture. Save your time and effort! It's a simple attachment for the lathe to turn it into a disk sander.
I need a disc sander and i've always wanted a lathe.
Alibaba.com offers 876 lathe sander products. Utilizes melamine for the platter and capable of tilting a full 45 degrees. About 0% of these are sander. Had a 1/2 hp motor lying around and decided to build a disc sander. I had a 10 inch sanding disc designed to be used on a table saw. I looked at available disk sanders and their predictably poor chinese construction, and built this either way, i've not had a problem with insufficient power or the lathe slipping when sanding much of. Incorporates a dust cover for the. I am not the first one who does that conversion, you can watch a few other people that made similar.