rail and style door sled for my 16-32 drum sander

[Dave H]

I built 4 doors  for a cabinet I'm building my daughter I wasn't happy with the unevenness after gluing them up yesterday. I didn't want to use my orbital sander so I thought I'd run them through my drum sander, trying to hold the over hanging frame level was harder than I imagined and, was making my problems worse so I got PO'd and quit for the night. I woke up this morning with the solution, a plywood sled to carry the doors through the drum sander I used some scrap from building the doors and attached them with some pin nails to the plywood I cut for the sled 

the middle one keeps the door level as  the drum goes over the styles which was where my problem was last night.

Now the door are level and, a consistent thickness this worked great.  

[Coop]

That’s a neat idea. The only downside I see is that you are sanding against the grain on the rails but the ros should clear that up. 

[Chet]

47 minutes ago, Coop said:

The only downside I see is that you are sanding against the grain on the rails but the ros should clear that up. 

I have had things like this where part of it went against the grain but you are correct it cleans up pretty good with the ROS.

I always start one grit lower then what I have on the drum sander, which is 120, so I start with 80 grit on the ROS.

[gee-dub]

Nice support solution. Thanks for sharing.