Stationary Belt Sander #1: SCORE!!!

Score! The only thing better than a good tool is a good FREE tool!.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL http://www.TenonAndSpline.com/blog

Free is good! TWO goldens? Awesome! I have been thinking about getting another one..I love my golden, they are the best breed!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

You are a lucky dog. Please seek professional help if you find yourself in the shop sanding, just to be sanding, no project, just sanding. Congratulations Steve.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Congrats!

-- I'm a wood magician... I can turn fine lumber into firewood before your very eyes! - http://www.woodworkersguide.com

NICE! a little TLC and she will look great.

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

Hi Steve;

Some guys have all the luck.

Be careful around the exposed belt! You might consider making a shroud for it.

Lee

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Brad Nailer- We have four goldens and lots of timber and a pond for their playground… hilarious to watch’em play.

I think that once I’ll put some TLC into it, some paint… a new bearing sometime later… it’ll run for years and years….

Lee- I’m in the middle of thinking about how I want to attach a belt cover… You’re abosolutely right, I don’t want to get myself or, Lord forbid, a dog tail caught in that belt.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Hey Steve,

That sure looks alot better than my Modern similar Delta… everything is out in the open… easy to get at…

I’ll bet it works great!

Are you going to put a Hook & Loop face on the disk?

I did that on a disk sander… it works pretty well… easier than those PSA types.

Congratulations… Nice SCORE!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

Awesome.

I got a very similar one at a garage sale three years ago..
Yours looks to be in better condition. They work great. But man they are loud! (And spew dust). I want to try a different belt and a dust shroud thingy.

Watch the fingers.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Good score. There is nothing like a free tool, especially a power tool.

-- Michael A. Brailsford

Joe- Hook and Loop, huh?... I hadn’t thought of that. That sounds a little easier than cleaning adhesive on the wheel all the time.

John- They do look similar. I’m going to fashion a belt guard for mine so that I don’t get caught up in it.

Mike- My grandfather used to say, “Heck, I’ll take anything that’s free…. ” lol

I just got back from the hardware store with some electrical components to give it a quick upgrade, and some paint. I’m going to clean it up the best I can and get it where I won’t have to maintanence it for a while. Depending on how easy the bearings and bushings are to replace, I may do all them too- whether they need it or not. The bearings in this machine are not self sealed. It would probably run a little more quiet too.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

I’m envious. They don’t make tools like they used to. I replaced my stationary sander a couple years back with a 6×48 “made in China” version since no one offered me a FREE replacement and “China” was what I could afford. What a mistake . . . absolutely impossible to get the belt to track correctly. It cuts into the dust collection (which is plastic). The fence (or whatever you call that thingamagig) is not square to the belt surface . . . and cannot be made square since the holes are misaligned. The table for the disk cannot be made level since the parts were machined crooked. The miter gauge looks like a toy part. The dust collection has a “grate” inside it that clogs whenever I sand aspen (poplar). The most frustrating part is that it has to be almost totally disassembled with a toolbox full of tools just to replace the belt! That doesn’t give a person any desire to sand to different grits—just put a belt on and leave it until it falls apart!

Anyone interested in a cheap stationary sander?!? :>)!

-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6

WOW, that sounds terribly frustrtating… I’m lucky enough on this one because it’s simple. I can adjust by finger pressure all the parts that move except putting the large belt vertical. I don’t need any tools to change a belt or pad, I can do that with my hand. It takes about 20 seconds. The parts that do require a wrench are only two sizes, and I have the wrench that came with the machine.

I think once I put a little time and effort into it, this machine is going to last me a very long time.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

On ya Steve. Some people get all the luck.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Wow, that is a sweet tool… and FREE!!! Nice.

I’m always on the lookout for older tools like that. Not only do they “not make ‘em like they used to”, but I actually enjoy the process of taking an old tool and making it work. Liberal WD-40 utilization is key, and by the fact that 75% of the photos you’ve put here have that familiar blue and yellow can, I can see you are no stranger to that!

-- Ryno

Ryno, I almost own stock in WD-40… It just about makes the world go ‘round. My grandfather used to call it “penetratin’ oil”... lol. I guess it’s how he used to say it must be why I remember it so clearly. It’s funny how you remember those you love the most.

I absolutely love taking old tools apart and redoing them. I like making them work like they should, when everyone else has given up on it. I’ve got a lot to do with this yet. I won’t get to really dig into it until the 10th of September or so, I’m all out of time right now. When I get things going, I’ll post more pics.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Here’s mine I got two of them one in the machine shop and this sixteen inch disk and six inch belt made by wadkin bursgreen a very good british company .It can take big cuts.

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Wow, nice and big! The disk looks like 1/2 a watermellon… lol. I be you really enjoy using that, it looks great!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

One solid machine Scotsman.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

There is only one thing better than getting a free power tool: getting a free vintage power tool. Nice score.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Watermellon…..that about says it. What a machine! I’d have to get rid of the wife to fit it in the house. Wait a minute….that might not be a bad idea!

-- Don, Pittsburgh

Hi Steve, A great gift!

I’m sorry I didn’t get back with a comment until now.

You must have it all shined up by now.

I bought an old Craftsman jointer, that was rusty like that, it had been sitting in a barn.

I polished the beds on it with wet or dry with WD-40, & it ended up like new.

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hey great score on a very handy tool steve . ive got a delta that ive been wanting to send straight into the dumpster since the day i bought it ! lol