Greetings,
I'm a high school woodshop teacher looking to buy a drum sander for my home shop. We have a Kuster in the school shop but have difficulty keep paper on it as the students think its a planer and "crank 'er down". Since the school shop is a 30 minute drive it makes sense to buy a unit for my home shop.

I'm looking to currently sand about 60 cherry doors/drawers for our new kitchen. I also dabble in some resawn tiger maple in 2"-10" widths. I was just about ready to click the "buy" button the Amazon Performax 10-20 for 399.00 when I saw the 22-44 that goes on a radial arm saw. 375.00 gets you the sanding unit and another 375.00 (a purchase at a later date.....?) gets the conveyor feed. Like most of us, my RAS just sits as a horizontal surface collecting stuff as its rarely used any more. Any thoughts? Overall the 10-20 has got good reviews and would suit my needs for now but then again the extra width could be handy sometime....

Thanks,

Lance Alldrin
Corning High School
Corning CA
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