Sander Replacement Part

My friend Scott managed to blow up the inner disk of a rotary disc sander. The challenge is to replace it with a 3-D printed part. I’m guessing the probability of success is very low. A lot of effort went into shock mounting on the original, and a printed part will be brittle. Also it will be a thermoplastic, so it won’t tolerate a lot of friction heating.

Sander and original parts

The original soft material tore out. That was backed up by a fiberglass insert

This is the new design in Fusion 360
And here it is on the printer. Took about three tries to get the dimensions right. Scott has it on the sander and . . . so far, so good.

Need to see how it holds up on a real job. The good thing is that we can always make these by the batch!

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