hi all this is the make even badging video for our Powermatic drum sander
it's called the Powermatic 2244 because it's 22 inches wide
but it has an open end on this side which means you could have something 44 inches wide
pass it through once turn it around and pass it through the other way and get actually 44
inches of coverage so that's pretty cool that's obviously much more than our planer
it doesn't have quite the same functionality as a planer the planer will take off large
amounts of material the drum sander can remove a bunch but probably not quite as aggressively
also well they're just different the planer has sharp blades and this has sandpaper
so we'll look on the inside of it to get a sense of how it works
so there's this big roll of sandpaper and it's going to be spinning this way
towards you and then underneath is this conveyor belt the conveyor belt is conveying your material
forwards so it's getting pulled forwards while this is sanding and then this whole
piece comes up and down so you just want to be sanding off the top of your material
and then obviously dust collection from the top and then once we turn it on we can see some of
the cool things it shows us so I think this is blinking because the e-stop is pressed nope it's
just blinking because it wants to so it turns out that this was blinking because it was turned off
by by pushing the switch off uh and this conveyor was still on so when we turn it on it says
no we don't want to just start this moving you need to turn this to the off position first
so now it should be happy so we can turn this on and you can see the conveyor moving and then if we
push this green start button then the drum head will start spinning we won't do that quite yet
so we can raise this guy up and down
and we're going to touch off our material I have this nice piece of walnut I've been
holding on to for a while and I probably should run it over the jointer first to get a flat bottom
but we're just gonna see what it looks like when we run it underneath here
so in terms of safety this is a relatively safe tool just make sure not to stick any hands or
body parts under there no hair or anything sort of getting underneath there and if anything
does happen obviously just hit the stop in terms of how you feed the material through
if everyone feeds the material right through the middle we're going to wear out the sandpaper right
in the middle really quickly so it's important to put things through at an angle so you hit all of
the sandpaper that you can you also want to make sure that everything is tracking nicely so if you
see the conveyor sliding to one side or the other or you know anything is sort of tracking poorly
or it's on not level then just refer to the manual which is inside the cabinet and we'll get that
straightened out this has a pretty cool feature called a load meter calls it calls it feed logic
and what that means is if it feels that it's being pushed too hard so it's either moving too fast
or it's too it's set too low so it's removing too much wood it'll automatically slow itself down or
as the sandpaper gets dull so it's just sort of feeling how much work the motor is doing and if it
feels that it's doing a lot of work it'll slow the conveyor down so that it it isn't overburdening
itself so that's a kind of cool feature to get the height I'm just gonna spin this by hand
and lower this until it just touches just like that and then raise it up a little bit so now
it's not touching and we should be good to go and all right so then I'm going to close this
I'm going to turn the dust collection on and we can run it through at an angle
pull it back and it looks like we go so gonna turn first the head on and the dust collection
and then gonna turn our conveyor on we're going to start with a nice slow speed
at an angle
so so it's not really doing much in the middle it seems like there's a
little high point at the end and now it's just kind of going along
but we'll let it go over the whole thing and then bring it down a little bit we can see here that
it's not really doing much work something else is that this is our first pass so what we could do
is zero this here and so now as we lower it we can see how much we're taking off
or we could start before we put the wood through by lowering the head down to the conveyor
and zeroing it there so we can tell it how thick we want our piece of wood to be at the end
so you can tell that it's slowed down a bunch
because it can detect that it's taking a lot of power
to do this
so I'm just gonna raise this up a little bit to help it come through a little more easily
wow
all right so you can see that the board got significantly thicker right at the end
and so we had to keep raising it up so that it could sand it but that's the general idea
in general when you're sanding so you do your first layer and then you bring it down just
by little increments so you lower it lower you get a feel based on your speed based on the type
of wood based on how wide the piece of wood at all all those factors will determine how
how much wood you can take off in each pass and again this is not a planer this is for sanding
so you might use it to take off a bunch of wood if you're using a really heavy grit
like 36 you know 60 something like that but then you can also go up to really fine grit and
do finish work on it so with that we'll look at how to change the grits I'm going to
turn this off and then just as I touched on this before but if you wanted to zero it
you could lower it down and so again you just just spin it as you're lowering it and then
going down going down and you can just hear it touch and that's when you would zero it and now
you know that it's at the height of your piece of wood so now you say I want my piece of wood to be
half an inch thick and it is now half an inch plus or minus thick so that's the idea there so
now we're going to raise this up and I'll show you how to take the paper off and on something else
you can do is grab a block of hardened silicone like this or this might even just be a block of
rubber and we're going to turn it on just to clean the sandpaper so go like that and that
just helps clean the sawdust out of the sandpaper so that's a good thing to do periodically as well
as vacuum out the conveyor belt so it doesn't get gummed up with sawdust so let that come to a stop
and so because you can really plow through the sandpaper on this and it's pretty expensive
the way the sandpaper works for this is we have it available for the in the store in the back
and you can go and buy what we have
available there you could buy it on your own and then let's say you want to keep that piece when
you're done then you can feel free to take that piece of sandpaper with you or you can leave it
on the machine or you can store it under here in this cabinet I'll show you how to open this
so this little lever lifts up and then twists and so then you can put extra sandpaper in there
and then someone else can be like oh perfect I wanted a 120 grit piece of sandpaper and it can
be available for them or and then obviously if a piece of sandpaper is toast then please just
throw it out so no one else has to find that out the hard way so now we're going to look at taking
this paper off and on again so the way it works is it just wraps around it's it's not glued on
it just is held on by these clips so we'll undo that and the way I'm doing this is just by pushing
so this is a clip on a spring so it applies tension to the strip so if you push it forward
it opens up the clip and then you can slide the sandpaper in so we're going to pull this off
and same deal here we just pinch that clip and it comes right out
then we're going to put it back in so when we're putting it in we're going to pinch the clip
and then slide it in until the width of the sandpaper is right at that notch
and as you can tell this is pretty specially cut sandpaper and we're putting this beveled
angled side on the outside so the angled side is going here and then we're rolling inwards
and we're pushing it away so I put it into the same depth as that mark and then just getting
it lined up with the edge that doesn't need to be totally perfect what you do want to make sure of
is that as you're wrapping it you're not overlapping with your previous
piece because then it would make a little lump and it would make lines in your workpiece as you're
sanding so we're just going to wrap this and we'll get it close but not not overlapping and there can
even be a little gap because it's a spiral so it's not going to show up in your work piece
just going around and they if you want to buy these for yourself they're just called you can
search for 2244 drum sander pre-cut sandpaper I'm just wrapping this all the way around
and the load meter is pretty great because it'll help prevent people from accidentally
hurting the machine by overloading it by using bad sandpaper or trying to take off
too much so I'm just going to slide these down because we're a little bit too far out
okay a little bit more all right so then we're just going to push this clip forwards
and slide the sandpaper in
just like that and then we're going to let go and it should pull tension
on that sandpaper so that should be that was a little overlap so we're going to do that again
there we go cool so that should be good to go so that's how you unwrap and wrap the sandpaper
obviously just close this guy and tighten it
and that is how you use the powermatic drum sander thanks for watching