How to use a table saw as a disc sander
How to use a table saw as a disc sander
If you don’t have the space or money to buy more tools try this. Turn your table saw into a disc sander. It’s easy to do and you can make one tool do more functions. It takes up less space. Two tool’s, one foot print.
What a joke.
Great video.
Simple Idea till I build my real one.just thinking out loud,those cheap china beginner tablesaws you seen onCL and yard sales for 25 bucks,you could make a dedicated sander out of that using your Idea!
Interesting innovation and imagination
Also, didn’t know how to make a circle with a table saw : two ideas in one video
Great idea but you may want to exercise more safety while doing how to videos. We dont need newcombers taking their fingers off. You came close to doing it at least twice.
great ideas! Thanks!
You just saved me a $100. I was ready to buy one of these.
because of high speed wood doesn’t resist , if breaks or take apart its danger fatal.
Thank you! We have to make the best out of what we have to work with and any time you can make two tools out of one it’s a Big Win! Well Done!
You just blew my mind
There’s another way to do this take an old dull blade put it on your grinder and grind all the teeth off make it smooth that’s what I did and then I stuck the sandpaper to it
Sid, along with all the help you have shown, I have a question as I saw your table saw. Mine is old, 1950’s craftsman. I cant turn the tilt to 45 degrees. It looks like we have the same era saw. Do I need to take it off the stand and flip it upside down to clear it or is there another way? I hope you say yes lol Thank you Dave
Sid: I found this video recently. I have an old table saw whose blade lift/tilt mechanism has a broken handle (Chinese plastic) but whose motor still runs strong. Thanks to you it’s going to take on a new life. For those people that want a disc sander but don’t want to spend a lot of money, I recommend looking for used table saws on Craigslist or at yard sales; nowadays they’re practically giving them away.
Like how you cut a circle on a table saw. Very neat trick!!!!
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Turning the sled into a quick little circle cutting jig was freaking brilliant. Lol. Hv seen all kinds of great ideas with folks making circular cuts with every tool imaginable, but this was one I have not seen yet. Nicely done!!
Great information and idea!
Muito bem gostei 👍
What a great idea!
Thank you for sharing 👍
All good 👍 nice to see your not too technical. Even I could follow along so you get a 👍Just from me to you. Something you all ready know. Put your ear and eye protection on 😉
really simple thanx old man cheers 😎
great vid thx man
thank you SID that was great…. keep them comin!!
Excellent idea. Thanks for the video.
Useful video. Clear and well presented. Thank you.
A piece of half inch solid surface works good and will not have to spray glue disc on it , eventually the paper will give way therefore the solid surface can be cleaned real good and apply a new disc.
Very interesting. I don’t know if you or other viewers have seen Mike Farrington’s channel (which I highly recommend). He has developed an aluminium disc and it’s primary use is for the final sanding of boards that you have cut. So, he doesn’t use it as you do (as a conventional disc sander) but runs the boards through using the fence and his aluminium disc.
One interesting point is that Mike found through his development that a flat disc doesn’t work well for his application. So, his disc is tapered 2 degrees. By using the table saw tilt, you adjust the tapered disc to 90 degrees or whatever you want but the taper front and back stops any binding or burning. His system works very well. I would guess you could use his disc as a disc sander although I haven’t tried that.
It might be worth see whether, if you were able to turn a 2 degree taper on your wooden disc, whether you could achieve something near to what Mike aspires to ?
Brilliant! I’m subscribing.
I did this with my very first 100 dollar table saw, it’s now my permanent sander. I put a different grade sand paper on the other side of sanding disk.
Great ideaQ just what I was looking for. Thank You
Sid, really like your vids as they are very helpful, this has to be a great site for us who don’t want to spend a mint on jigs and didn’t know how about doing it differently…now we do, thanks Sid
Great work sir,but how about when changing the sand paper?Glueing and taking off every time or how?thanks.
cool idea, but you also might want to make the sandpaper easily replacable. ie: strong velcro. i am far too familiar with trying to get blunt sand paper off of wood! spoiler: it takes forever and afterwards you will never have a flat wheel to mount more sandpaper to! unless you want to keep making new wood disks… seems pointless to me…..sandpaper wont last forever.
So much easier than I was thinking.
Just replaced my old table saw with a new one and was wondering if I could turn the old one into a disc sander.
Space isn’t an issue
My shop is two tables beneath a hackberry tree and a storage shed for the tools. LOL
Was gonna try this with the new one but I can hardly get the blade on, this would be impossible until I learn what I’m doing anyway. LOL
Thanks for the video!!!
New subscribe from me!!!!
amazing
I think I’ll do this to my radial arm saw with the carriage locked fully extended. The motor even tilts and pivots. Just have to come up with a movable sanding base.
Nice, I’ll have to give it a spin!
Excellent. Worked perfect. A low cost solution for right angle sanding.
How about being a little more enthusiastic in your videos, even smile from time to time??… This was soooooooo slow and boring to look at, the idea is great, but you really need to work on your "in front of camera" personality.
looks dangerous. DO you think that can break?
I would suggest making a near zero clearance insert for it just to be on the safe side. Otherwise, very nice video!
Have you had to change paper yet? How easy/hard to do?
Good video, you are very skilled, but please work safely – fingers don’t grow back.
great idea! maybe even more versatile than a store-bought disc sander with 2 sides having different grits.
you could also make a simple zero-clearance plate by just cutting a notch in the middle of a board. the notch length would be about the same as the disc diameter. just lay it over and clamp it down and use it on both sides.
I’m tempted to try this. I’d like a disc sander, but don’t have money or room for one. My concern is whether the bearings on the table saw will hold up to the sideways pressure.
I have been subscribed to your channel for a while and have enjoyed the tips. I have this one portable table saw, fence handle won’t tighten anymore but the rest works great, for being an older table saw. I hung onto it, hoping I could do something useful with it, and after seeing this vid, now I know what. Thanks for the tip Sid! Now I have a new and better tool.
Nicely done!
I’ve always thought of a jig for the fence that houses a thrust bearing or even multiple bearings to prevent the disc from being tilted and damaging the shaft of the table saw