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In article ,
says...
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?

Now you're just being silly.

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.

Incidentally, if he is hitting nails etc with his floor sander in his
quest to save damage to the blades on his thicknesser, he will have a
lot of expensive pads to replace (Not to mention the trouble of actually
replacing them) and he'll be buying a lot of quite expensive sanding
sheets.

I'm intrigued to know how he feeds this contraption and what, if any,
accuracy he gets with the thicknessing.

And lastly I would imagine most church pews would have a quite good
finish on them so can't imagine why he wants to attack them with a floor
sander. Come to that they surely couldn't have a lot in the line of
hidden ironmongery either I wouldn't imagine.
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Paul Mc Cann