On 22/02/2015 04:40, wrote:
On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 11:02:38 PM UTC, John Rumm wrote:
On 21/02/2015 21:26, Roger Mills wrote:
On 21/02/2015 20:04, David wrote:
Just got the new drive belt for my Parkside belt sander. I
haven't used the sander since 2013 (I know because when
ordering a new drive belt I found the previous order for a new
drive belt - but not the drive belt itself).

The sander now runs again, but the sand paper just runs off the
sander as soon as I turn it on.

Google suggests that this may be due to adjustment, and there
is a screw at the front with a spring loading which seems to
move the front roller about, but I don't seem to be able to
change the behaviour using this.

Anyone else have experience of the Parkside sanders?

Any idea how to cure this?

Cheers

Dave R


I've got a belt sander which I bought at Lidl - which I think is
branded Parkside, but I'm not at home at the moment, and so can't
check.

Mine has got some sort of knob on the side which has to be turned
to align the sanding belt. When you turn it with the sander
running, the belt moves from side to side quite a lot - so you
just adjust it to be central.

I once had a Ferm belt sander - big ugly noisy thing it was. It had
an adjustment knob as described, but after a few months of storage
the plastic frame had "crept" enough under the tension of the belt,
that there was no longer enough adjustment available to get the
belt to run properly - rendering it useless.

You could probably make it work by packing the roller with epoxy or
thread, though I might not spend much time on a cashew shaped Ferm
sander.

I made it work far far better by slinging it in the bin and replacing it
with a Makita ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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