Delta - 31-481 (Rating: 3)

I did a lot of research before buying a sander , Some of the thing I wanted in the sander was , I wanted a Double drum sander , Pay a little extra now to save time later , Next I want it wide to sand 20 -24 wood panels, and at least be able to sand 6-8 thick or deeper , it case I wanted to sand a box or something, and a descent price ,so it came down to the Delta 26 inch wide 31-481 or the grizzly 24 inch model

well I thought I done a lot of research , but I didn't , I find any reviews of either machine So what swing me to delta was the 5 year warranty , So by chance it came on sale for around $ 1,900. Dollars So I Bought and it took about a week to get it here , So I get started using it and with in 10 minutes the sandpaper Rips , so I looked around for sandpaper for it and BOY DOES IT HAVE A STRANGE SIZE, I FINALLY FIND IT i TRIED TO PUT IT ON AND BOY THAT WAS A JOB , it never line up right , in the manual there was NO TEMPLATE FOR THE ANGLE, LENGTH AND REALLY NOT MUCH ON HOW TO CHANGE IT OR TROUBLE SHOOT THE PROBLEMS. I CALLED THE SERVICE TECH AND ASK HIM ( STEVE ) WHAT THE TO DO AND HE SAID TO BUY THE PRE CUTS SANDPAPER , I told him I would but could find any , Steve said they sell them and keep one as a pattern for later , I look but never found any, so I keep trying to put sand paper on it , I would use it and the sandpaper would come loose again and start to over lap and I would have to stop and tight it up but to no avail it would loosen up again , I tried anything , I kept calling the delta tech service and they were no help. I tried per cut paper and the same problem , in about 16 months I have change the sandpaper a least 12 time on each drum about 300 feet of sandpaper , what I ended up be able to get it to last a little longer was I used double stick tape on the Drums , but it still would only stay tight for a little while, I finally had enough and called Delta and told them I had enough and they told me to called a delta service center, I Did and made arrangements to take it in the them on Aug 22 2017 , I did that because I was going out of town for 18 days , the guy at the service center called Delta to have them send parts , well Delta never sent them parts. I called Steve at DELTA about it and they said they would get with the repair shop and send them parts , well they some parts, well the repair shop started put in the new parts and after he got it tore down they never sent them all the part , so got with Delta and sent them more parts,( now this is 6 weeks later and still not fix ) the repair got the parts and still missing some , the repair shop sent picture of the parts they need, so about a week later they got the rest of the parts they thought, well they didn't , I called Delta again my self and they are now starting Back step saying they told the shop on Sept 21 that the rest of the part are on back order Nov. 7 2017 and Delta did not care about it, i DID SOME MORE LOOKING AROUND OF THE NET AND FOUND 2 MORE COMPANY'S THAT THERE SANDER ARE THE SAME THAT THE COULD GET THE PARTS FROM AND THEY DID NOT CARE Well I am stuck with it WHEN I GET BACK , JUST TELL EVERYBODY NOT TO BUY DELTA TOOLS I HAVE SEEN A FEW SANDER THAT HAS HOOK AND LOOP SANDPAPER ON IT IN CLOSING THIS HAS BEEN A HEAD ACHE AND A HALF