On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:07:35 +0000 (UTC), John Thomas
wrote:

mac davis wrote in
:

OTOH, I bought their 6x48" belt sander with 9" disk on sale for about
$140 (with stand) about 3 years ago and hope it never dies.. great
tool..



Mac,

How stiff is the disk on that puppy? I looked at the one at our local store
a few weeks back; the floor model was broken (literally, the disk was
busted). It looked like pretty thin Aluminum, so I passed on it then.
(Still thinking though ...)

Regards,
JT

Well, it's nowhere near the quality of the 12" disk on my shopsmith,
but it's as good as a few aftermarket ones I've bought other places..

I've used it quite a bit on several projects and never had a problem
or noticed it flex, even with my "less than patient" neighbor using it
to round corners on hardwood.. lol

The belt sander is very nice, but like most of them, could use a
better fence and a jig that I saw somewhere to use for keeping work
square on the belt for edge sanding..