I just bought a Craigslist Central Machinery sander (35 bucks) and I want to sand a longer piece than the sander itself. Do I need the fence on the machine, or can I just take it off without too much worry? No instruction manual of course, and I can't find online.

Thanks,

Mike

Michael wrote in
:

I just bought a Craigslist Central Machinery sander (35 bucks) and I
want to sand a longer piece than the sander itself. Do I need the
fence on the machine, or can I just take it off without too much
worry? No instruction manual of course, and I can't find online.

You can take it off. If you're sanding small stuff there's
a risk of loosing your grip and having whatever you're sanding
go shooting away, but for bigger pieces you'll have no trouble
maintaining control.

John

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 06:32:33 -0700 (PDT), Michael
wrote:

I just bought a Craigslist Central Machinery sander (35 bucks) and I want to sand a longer piece than the sander itself. Do I need the fence on the machine, or can I just take it off without too much worry? No instruction manual of course, and I can't find online.

Thanks,

Mike

http://manuals.harborfreight.com/man...7999/97181.pdf

All there sanders have online manuals