Unusual uses for shop tools

[leehljp]

I subscribe to a couple of email sites concerning unusual uses or creations around the shop. This one is good and I do use a few of them and have for quite a while:

https://www.instructables.com/id/20-Unusual-Uses-for-Shop-Tools/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email

I thought it might be helpful for some.

[capncarl]

The title brought back memories of a short lived tv series that I think was called power tool racing. The gist was competitors modified circular saws, belt sanders, blenders, you name it and drag raced them down a wooden trough. Kinda funny but they run out of subject quite quickly. The show didn’t last long.

[leehljp]

This is the one that intrigued me the most:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Lathe-Drum-Sander/

[cwsmith]

Thanks Hank,

A few of these I knew, but there were several that were pretty neat, the drum sander build on the lathe, perhaps the best, as you mention. I recall my local Sears selling disc sander arbor mounts for years (table saw) and certainly drums for drill press sanders are fairly wide offerings... though they put too much side pressure on the drill press, in my opinion.

I have a book, "De Cristoforo's Complete Book of Power Tools (Copyright 1972 by R. J. De Cristoforo; Popular Science Publishing) that has many different jigs for the use of several different power tools, such as using the drill press for a vertical lathe. Each chapter is for a different tool, like the table saw, RAS, etc. and most all have a few jig applications. It doesn't have that wide drum sander tough!

In any case, it's interesting how many applications a person's imagination can come up with when challenged.

Thanks for the post,

CWS

[DK.Alice]

Thank you very much, Hank Lee. Some tools are better used by me and I am able to draw a circle time to time with a compass. It is usually the simplest and most accurate option.