Introduction
This guide will walk you through the basic use of the drum sander. The drum sander is used to take off a small amount of material at a time to give your work piece a nice smooth surface. The drum sander is used over the planer when the amount of material to remove is a smaller than 1/8”.
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Ensure all proper PPE is worn.
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Goggles
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Ear Protection (optional but HIGHLY recommended)
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Ensure you have done the following:
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Tied back any loose hair
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Removed any jewelry from wrists or hands
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Rolled back any long sleeves
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Wore closed toed shoes
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Secured any and all loose and baggy clothing
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The drum sander should NOT take off more than 1/16th" per pass. Doing so will result in damage to the sandpaper and burning of the wood.
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Max infeed height is 3 1/8"
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Adjust the locking arm to the vertical position to make gross adjustments.
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Use the angled black arm to raise and lower the sanding head.
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Adjust the locking arm to the horizontal position to make minute adjustments
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Turn the crank handle to make adjustments. One quarter turn equates to a 1/64" height adjustment.
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Use knob to adjust feed speed.
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Feed speed automatically slows down as necessary. However, this does incur burning. Avoid this by taking off less material.
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Start with a speed of 50 and a light pass.
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If the wood burns or the wood slows down, decrease the amount of material taken off on the next pass and increase feed speed.
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Adjust height to the current height of your workpiece using depth gauge, or by placing piece under drum, and lowering until drum lightly touches top of work piece.
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Raise height by 1/64" (quarter turn of fine adjustment knob) to remove high spots from piece.
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Move blast gate on the intake of Laguna dust collector to open position.
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Turn on dust collector.
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Flip large red switch underneath feed rate knob.
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Infeed belt and drum sander can turn on and off independently of each other. Make sure both are on before operating.
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Place piece on infeed side of the belt.
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Apply pressure to workpiece as piece gets grabbed by rollers to reduce snipe.
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Skew the workpiece to avoid dust buildup on one spot of the drum.
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Open drum cover by pressing button and lifting lid.
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Ensure dust collector and air filters are on.
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Grab sandpaper cleaning stick from utility closet.
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Turn on drum sander.
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Run cleaning stick along drum to evenly remove dust build up.
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Maintain firm pressure on the top of the cleaning stick to prevent stick from flying out of your hands.
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Turn off drum sander to inspect drum and remove rubber shavings from housing. Turn on and clean spots missed from initial pass.
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