Diy Brushless Belt Sander and Disc Sander

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DIY BRUSHLESS BELT SANDER AND DISC SANDER
by DIY KING 00
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We reccently designed and built our Disc and Belt sanding machine using brushless hub motor from an old hoverboard
and a bunch of spare metal sheet.
The basic idea is to replace our current sanding machine thats powered by an induction motor. It requires 120v AC thus
we need an additional step down transformer to drive it and as its an induction motor, its lacks alot in power.
Besides we love building tools and stu so it's just another reason to get our hands dirty.
Lets get building....
Supplies:
Tools:
Angle grinder
Drill machine
Drill bits
Welding machine
Soldering iron
Basic metal working tools
Material:
An old hoverboard
An old conveyor belt assembly
A bunch of nutbolts
Sanding belts
PCB
Heavy duty hinge
Ball bearings
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Step 1: Design
Before we get our hands dirty we designed the whole unit. The approach was simple, The structure is made out of 6mm
thick metal sheet. We are going to use a bunch of rollers that we have salvaged from a conveyor belt assemble. The belt
rolls over the outer surface of our hub motor and the sanding disc is attached to the face plate.
A heavy duty hinge is attached to the base plate and the roller assemble to shift the unit to hotizontol sanding position
to sand wider parts using the sanding belt.

Step 2: Cutting Metal Parts
Once we are done with the CAD design we than printed 2-Dimensional layouts of all the parts the need to cut out of the
metal sheet.
We stick them to the metal sheet and use our angle grinder and jigsaw to cut out all the pieces.

Step 3: Drilling and Taping
Once we cut down all the parts we than drill and do the threads taping where needed.One of the reason for using 6mm
thick metal sheet is to hold everything together using the embeded threadsand minimize welding parts together.

Step 4: Welding
A bunch of parts need to be welded together like the base and both the sanding beds. Once we started welding
everything messed up as the thermal shrinkage caused a lot of twisting. Later we need to do a lot of troubble shooting to
get things as acurate as possible.
We than grinded the excess welds and nished all the parts to get them painted.

Step 5: Painting
Later we painted all the metal parts to give them a neat look and prevent them from rusting. We have usedmatt black
auto paint for better nish.

Step 6: Modifying the Motor
To make sure we have plenty of power, we decided to use a brushless hub motor that we salvaged from an old
hoverboard. We dissassembled the motors as it needs a bunch of modi cations before we can use it. The front plate and
the drum needs to be at so that we can mount our sanding disc over the face plate and smoothly run the belt over the
drum. An hour on lathe machine got the job done but before we reassemble the motor we need to gure out a way to
increase the speed of motor.
Hoverbaord motors spins a lot slower than what we need for our sanding machine, just 700 rotations per minute. For
simplicity we are going to use an RC car ESC that can handle 6 cells in series compared to 10 cells from hoverboard setup.
Now thats further going to decrease the speed.
Rewinding the stator was the solution but its going to take alot of time so instead we rewired the original winding. Since
its a three phase motor so each phase has three sets each set having three poles and all of them connected in series. We
rewired the winding so that all three sets are are connected in parallel. This make the current to ow three times faster as
compared to the series connection ,making the motor spin three times faster.
Before we sotter the PCB we trimmed the coils and removed the enammled coating … man that job took ages to
complete….
Once we are done with that we sottered the PCB carefully not to damage the winding. Before we reassemble the motor
we drilled holes into the motor drum for sanding plate and to make the sanding plate we have used 6mm thick
aluminium sheet.

Step 7: JLC PCB
Here I would love to thank JLCPCB not only for sponsoring this project but to make sure that we pull this modi cation
upto the standards. We designed the PCB for the stator unit and ordered it from JLCPCB. The process is straight forward,
all you need to do is to upload your gerber les and go through a bunch of options and you are done. We recieved the
PCBs within a week and as always the product quality is exceptional. Its over three years since our rst collaboration and
not even a single glitch in there services and product quality.So guys make sure to visit JLCPCB, the link is in the
discription.
JLC PCB : https://jlcpcb.com/IYB

Step 8: Final Assembly
After modifying the motor to our need we then start assembling all the parts together and for that we rst installed
heavy duty hinge & main vertical plate with base and then mounted up the motor holder bush using athead screws,
then we slide the motor shaft and tightened it up using M6 gerb screws. After that we have installed the sanding disc
bed holder and bed also and make sure that both pieces bed and holder are perfectly square to the main sanding dics.
After completing the sanding disc assembly now we have move towards assembling the roller assembly for sanding belt.
For that we attached the roller assembly bar to vertical plate and then mounted the main bed infront of it.
After assembling whole unit we have 3d printed the enclosure for our speed controller and servo tester to make wirring
and things orzanized. The 3d printed enclosure slides over the motor holder and tightened up using two screws.

Step 9: Final Results
Later we installed both the sanding disc and belt and the unit is ready to get tested.As we turned the unit on the belt
started to skid on left side so to x that we made some adjustments over the tentioner pully. We than started sanding
over the belt sanding bed in verticle position. With variable speed there was su cient power to sand metal bar without
the belt stopping, sanding aluminium sheet was a piece of butter for this thing.
Later we tried the sanding Disc and got even more power as its directly attached to the drive unit. With the amount of
power we are getting we could have placed a 12in sanding disc over there which would have been more usefull as the
part near the centre of the disc is not that useful.
Next we switched the bed to horizontal position and started sanding face of remaining metal sheet from this project.
Now thats something that we cant get done on a sanding disc as it sands unevenly but with this bed we can easily sand a
12 in wide plate evenly.
The only issue we face is that the belt was touching the bed and as we sand large plates like this one the belt slips over
the hub motor whereas the motor keeps spining. Well thats something we will x later. Consider subscribing if you love
this build and let us know your thoughts in the comment section below. Will soon be there with another awesome
project.


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