Hello folks
Thought this might be of interest to ye, as the belt sander was the first tool I've ever owned...
waay back when I intended to get stuck into the world of guitars, there was little available online,
and watching Steve's guitar building on YT, and some John Mayes dvd's convinced me this tool was indeed versatile enough to become
the first big tool on "the list"
However, not building anything comparative to a guitar since, I've never found much use for it TBH, being more of a hand tooler guy of sorts...(One with machinery that is.)
These days, the shed is getting a little cramped now, not with much anything guitar related I might add,
and this thing what was sitting unloved in the back, actually got lugged over to the usable section of the workshop,
and finally proved it's worth.
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Now it needs to be made mobile, so I might as well try and give this machine a new lease of life whilst I'm at it.
Hopefully this will make the sander far more versatile.
IIRC, this might not be the first belt sander thread on the OLF, but the one I was trying to find with some capacitor issue
I couldn't find in the archives. (this just being of interest, and not an issue on the machine)
Not done much yet, but got a rough idea of what needs doing...
Might as well post here seeing as there may be some who might feel the same way about their sander.
Ignore the big hole cut into the plastic case, these things don't come off easily if they start smokin!
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Disassembled it completely and it's handleable now
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Apologies, nothing interesting to see so far, you'll have to come back.
Cheers
Tom