SuperMax 25x2 With edge sanding technology

[donnie cherry]

I received it yesterday, won't be up and running until Thursday though. Wow, is it heavy! Not made in USA though, Taiwan instead. I'll let everyone know.

[donnie cherry]

Well, it's set up and running. I will post some pics tomorrow. It is one heavy machine. Make sure you have a forklift around to lift the sanding and conveyor head assembly. Very nicely finished. The digital readout is a very nice feature. Everything was adjusted right out of the box pretty much as far as the drum alignment. I haven't had to make many adjustments so far. I adjusted the tension on the tension rollers a bit . The conveyor belt needed some adjusting also to get it tracking ok. I believe I have it tracking pretty decent now.

AS far as the promotion you guys were telling me about, I called Supermax and asked them about it. They told me to talk to the place I bought it from. I called them and they didn't no about it. They contacted Supermax and talked to them about it. It was either the mobile base or the extension tables for free. I chose the extension tables.

I used it today for about on hour or so. It will save a lot of sanding time as far as the random orbital sander goes.

I will let you more about it as I use it a little more.

[Ben Martin]

Donnie,

Good to hear that you got it set-up and are happy with it!

Will be interested in a long term review of it!

Ben

[kenneth fleming]

Donnie,
I am the one who they told it was both as that is what I was told...
thx

[donnie cherry]

I was told it was one or the other. I am fine with just the tables.

[donnie cherry]

Here are a couple of pics of it. I sanded about 200 bd ft of hard maple through it over the weekend. It is a stout machine. Belt changes are not too bad. You need a good dust collector with it.

[Mike Daugherty]

This machine is actually made in Taiwan but is suppose to be an excellent sander. I also have been looking at it and have compared it to Woodmaster and I believe that it's a better sander even though it's made over seas, I have spoke with them a couple of times and always get straight forward answers.

[donnie cherry]

Mike,
It is made overseas. I wish it was made in the US though. I looked at both also and decided on this one.

[Bruce Page]

How is the dust collection on it? There's a fair amount of dust on the floor, is it from the conveyer?
Also, what is the smaller hand wheel on the left side for?

It looks like a well thought out sander and the footprint is a lot smaller than my Woodmaster!

[mreza Salav]

Looks like a good machine. I have their 37x2 (Made in US) and it's a good machine, but there are a few things with it I don't like. The lifting mechanism transfers from the hand wheel (that you turn) via a long rod to the other side and there are two sprokets at that joint; those are held in place with set screws. One of the set screws kept coming loose and the sproket would slip (meaning messing the alignment). Eventually the threads in the sproket broke after I (over?)tightened the set screw. Small issue and easy to fix but I expected better...

[donnie cherry]

The dust on the floor comes from the conveyor. It`s not too bad though. Looks worse than it really is . The small hand wheel you are asking about is the adjustment hand wheel for the back drum. turn it set the difference between the front and back drum.

[donnie cherry]

The hand wheel that you turn as far as lowering or raising the table has gotten so hard to turn . I have oiled it and at times it's okay and other times it is all I can do to turn it. Has anyone else had this problem?

[Bruce Page]

Have you contacted Supermax? It's not a good idea to force it, you could do real damage.

[Mike Wilkins]

Fine looking machine. I have a Woodtek double-drum and the same dust collector as you (Delta). How is the dust collection with your set up??? Mine is not so great; wishing for a cyclone.

[glenn bradley]

Are you sure that the 25x2 ES is Made in the USA? Just looking at it, sure looks identical to the 19-38 that is Made in Taiwan.

"Identical" . . . really?

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I get your drift, I'm just funnin' with ya.

As with your average "American" car, many parts are made off shore as America no longer has those industries to any competitive degree. The company doesn't use the ambiguous "Made in America" label for marketing the way many do but, the important thing to me is that the company is here and that the employees are here. The fact that they procure parts from offshore in order to succeed here is moot to me.