O.S sander

[Mike Evertsen]

I was looking at sanders on grizzly's site,, they have the same style O.S. sander ryobi used to carry,,,,this is the style from ryobi I have,,,,

[Mark Singer]

I was looking at sanders on grizzly's site,, they have the same style O.S. sander ryobi used to carry,,,,this is the style from ryobi I have,,,,

Mike,
I have the smaller Jet spindle sander and it seems excellent. In the customer reviews on Amazon it seemed to be eveyones favotite. It is the first one I have had so I can't compare it. It has lots of power and it is square to the table.
Mark

[Chris Padilla]

Mike,

I bought the Porter Cable oscillating-spindle sander (PC-121) that you can use as a hand tool or invert into a table. I found uses for it in both instances. Woodpeckers carries a nice 3/8" thick Al plate for mounting it to and placing in a table (perhaps a router table if you have one). I love the versatility and one less piece of floor or bench-standing equipment.

Chris

[Dave Richards]

I also have the PC-121 and have it mounted in my router table with a plate from Bench Dog. Seems like a good way to use my router table since I usually use the WoodRat instead for router work.

Evidently the plate has been discontinued by them but their site shows they still have some.

[Chris Padilla]

Dave, It is kind of funny but I mounted the Woodpecker's plate to my PC-121 and have basically left it on...even when using it out of the table! I just have to back-off the leveling set screws and it provides a nice, smooth, large stable platform to sand with.

I did get mine from Woodpecker's on a great sale (included an "email coupon", too) so maybe they are getting rid of them? I find it hard to believe that they would have poor enough sales on them to discontinue.

Chris

[Dave Richards]

Chris, I do the same thing with mine. In fact, I frequently have the acrylic router table plate on my router when hand holding it too. I designed a jig for cutting scarf joints with the router which uses the router on the acrylic plate.

[Chris Padilla]

Not to hijack Mike's thread (too late? ) but I am interested to hear more about your scarf cutting jig. Are the scarf cuts for long runs of molding or was it designed with something else in mind?

Chris

[Dave Richards]

Sorry, too, for the hijack.

The scarf jig was designed for joining the pieces for the rubrails on the sailboat I completed and launched in August. I don't know if these pictures will work. We'll see.




I set the jig up to make an 8:1 scarf. The two mating pieces are loaded up in the jig together. One piece is staggered back by 8 times the stock thickness to reduce waste.

By the way, in the first picture you can see my "Under $10 Router Lifter".

Hopefully the pictures work and make sense. If they don't, here's a link to the album. Scarf Jig and Other Stuff

[Kurt Aebi]

Mike,

I bought the Sears Craftsman O.S. Sander and love it. It has a nice roughly 18"square laminate covered table which makes holding the parts to be sanded rather easy and the laminate will not mark the parts. It is not a heavy duty 24/7 type machine, but seems to work fine for a hobbiest like myself. It uses the same sleeves as the Ryobi and a couple others. Just my 2 cents worth, but why spend more for industrial quality if you don't need it