Young Je, you are a breath of fresh RU-vid air! I'm so sick of all of these so called 'woodworkers' with hundreds of thousands of viewers and shops full of expensive machinery(mostly given to them by advertisers) doing the same videos. Sometimes they even get together to make videos! UGH!! These guys have nothing on you my friend! Keep up the wonderful work.
Very good comment. I started watching all these folks several years ago because of the DIY aspect of it all and because that made it inexpensive for common people. Neither applies when you have a $5K CNC machine, a lathe, a SawStop table saw (of course) and hundreds of sheets of $75 plywood to use. My new year's resolution was to clean up my Subscriptions and do away with most of those people. Not all of them....but most. This gives me room to add YOUR channel and see what you have to offer. As said above....please stay "simple"
I completely agree here. I watch quite a few videos just because of the DIY perspective and quite a few of the DIY videos suck because they are using tools that us "average" people don't have let alone can afford to buy. Most of those videos seem like a slap in the face as they use their well equipped shops to build tools that they already own. I watch DIY videos so I have an alternative to actually buying the tool. If I had the expensive tools that they use I wouldn't be watching videos to build a different version of the tool
I am impressed by all of your videos. The fact that you are actually making and do things and do not apologise for or justify what you do or how you do it, is fantastic!! Great job Young Je!
I like your no-nonsense approach to woodworking. I am amazed at the quality and amount of videos you make. I am inspired to make the belt grinder. Thank you!😃
I want to thank you for an excellent video and process. However, I want to thank you mostly for sharing. I was thinking of using a cover to my wooden wheels and I thought of PVC. Well the rest is history. You have perfected an excellent process. Thank you again for sharing and I wish you much success in your business. Thanks again for helping this guitar repairman who needs a 6in belt sander that won't cost an arm and a leg.....
Brilliant! I like your way of thinking outside the box. Some people can't afford the luxury of expensive aluminum grinding wheels, as nice as that would be. Sometimes we have to adapt and improvise to reach our end goal. Well done!
.......applaud applaud applaud....your approach to design and use of materials is as unique as the beautiful hand planes you make. Look forward to the belt sander coming together. Keep up the great work.
So there was alot of good stuff here. Nice insights into building. Very nice handmade lathe, I will have to check that out. But I really liked your shop made square, so useful for finding center. Thanks for sharing.
Great idea, saves loads on buying premade. Ive put my belt grinder project on hold because of the cost and availability of thd guide wheels, time to start working on it again. Cheers matey!. All the best.
Awesome thanks. I was planning on doing the same thing seeing how I have a ton of pvc lying around. I tried doing this with just wood and a holesaw but I could never get it just right. I'm still concerned about how pvc will work but I'm gonna give it a try
Who else puckered up when he was running the hole saw in the drill press. Then using gloves, then using it as an arbor press! But I got to hand it to him (while he still has them) he got it done. Whew....
I am starting a build on a DIY 2x72 sander.. scratching my head on how the heck I could afford billet aluminum for the wheels( and get them made) .. thank you so much..
Very interesting. A few questions... I am curious as to how the wheels hold up. How often do you use the belt grinder and under what load? How are the wheels holding up 2 plus years later? Thank you for the video and the concept.
@@YoungJe I wonder if it would work, if you were to make the wheels a little wider than the belt and then put a slight groove about the width if the belt down the middle.
You really know what you are doing extremely talented we enjoy we would appreciate if you talk about all that you are doing even if it is in a different language because we can always have the words come up on our screen of our television thumbs up my friend we appreciate you
Really nice, I liked a lot how you make it. Looking forward to see the full build! BTW, I had only watched one of your videos, the center finder. Now I subscribed. :)
When you work with a crown, you always drill a couple of openings for the emission of sawdust from the outside of the cut, then there will be no smoke and the tool will not overheat and will last longer.
Love your videos! When possible you are using a hole saw, position the saw so that one edge of the blade exits the wood. This allows chip evacuation. You get faster, cleaner cuts and the blade doesn't heat as much.
Amazing and really beautiful craftsmanship! Do you have the plans and materials list? Can't really do anything without those major items....Thanks for all your posts and all you do.,..
seen alot of belt grinder builds that only use wood or MDF, not saying its a bad material just REALLY worried it could fly apart. However i do REALLY like this idea. Using MDF (i think correct me if im wrong) combined with PVC makes a pretty strong roller. I LIKE IT!
You better make a ground wire to run to frame or something. I made some rollers like that and the static electricity would just about knock you down after a little grinding.
John Heisz, in his videos on his wood 2x72 grinder design, tested whether the tracking/idler wheels needed to be crowned, and concluded that they worked fine without crowning. Not only that, he concluded that crowned wheels actually tended to *stretch* the belt, resulting in slack and tracking to one side. He's probably pretty precise with his build, so that may help compensate -- *I'd* tend to agree with you, and put at least a tiny bit of crown on the wheels, but his results were interesting to think about.
Excelente trabajo te felicito desde Uruguay y te quería consultar utilizas nylon industrial y que tipo de madera y x ultimo con que pegamento pegas el nylon a la madera ? Gracias
I built my self a variable belt length sander (from 30 to 72") and used a 4" nylon wheel used on trolleys for the drive wheel. Have had no problem with heat. Nylon is softer than PVC, so your PVC wheels will work 100%. You can mount your drive wheel to the motor and crown it with a chisel while the motor is running using a clamped down block of wood as a chisel rest.
Interesting concept, but a bit overkill. I doubt you could exert enough force on one of these whilst sanding, enough to warrant using full MDF (assuming it's MDF) all the way through. I think it would be simpler and less time consuming to do them with two pieces of thinner MDF (or perhaps HDF, because that thing is nigh indestructible) to hold the outer plastic sheath. All would be held together with nuts and washers where the bearings would be inset from the face of the barrel (which would also keep them out of harms way, even shielded bearings can get crud ingress). But that's just my two cents on it. Either way, using a PVC pipe as the contact surface is a brilliant idea, across the range of pipe sizes (with some even in custom dimensions obtainable as samples) you could make a small "farm" of these to suit a lot of purposes. Heck, i can already see a sander using an industrial PVC drainage pipe as outer sheath. Of course...that would require a more umphier motor :)