It was somewhere outside Barstow when Paul Mc Cann
wrote:

I know a guy who recycles old church pews. His first-pass thicknesser
is made from a floor sander on an adjustable height carriage over a
roller table. Saves him a lot of damaged knives on the real
thicknesser.

Ingenious, Andy, but hardly a drom sander

Why not? It sands, it has a drum?

and he is not going to get
much accuracy when it comes to thicknessing is he ?

Why not? The carriage is better made than most lunchbox thicknessers
and it seems reasonably stable. It's a bit on the narrow side,
admittedly, but can handle boards in three passes under the drum.