Hi All
I have been gone for a while but it is good to start working wood again.
I recently acquired an old Performax S/T drum sander with a 2 HP Baldor motor and feed belt. I don't think that the feed belt was the original sold with the S/T kit but could be mistaken. I am new to drum sanders and have a couple of basic questions.
1) there is paper on the drum already which I plan on removing tonight (just got the sander last night) but I can see that there is a black felt or cotton wrapping underneath on the drum is that normal?
2) How important are the pressure rollers for sanding? There is a set on this home made and needs replacement. I am working on that now have a couple of ideas that I am going to run by a very good fabricator/machinist friend of mine and see what he thinks but can I do basic sanding without them all together. It seems that this sander that was made to run off a radial arm saw didn't have them to start with.
3) How important is the feed belt speed? I am going to hook up a restate to control speed but I was just wondering.
Thanks for you help
Dave
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