4" x 36" Belt / 8" Disc Sander - 3/4 HP Reviews

3.2 Rating 5 Reviews

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Woodcraft Supply, LLC is one of the nation's oldest and largest suppliers of quality woodworking tools and supplies. You'll find Woodcraft stores in more than 70 major metropolitan areas across the U.S.; and Woodcraft annually distributes 1.5 million catalogs featuring more than 10,000 items to all 50 states and 117 foreign countries. The Woodcraft catalog is a standard among woodworkers as the most complete offering of first rate products for woodworking available anywhere. Woodcraft also publishes six issues of Woodcraft Magazine annually.

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1177 Rosemar Rd,
Parkersburg
West Virginia
26105

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“It does okay but could use a little more hp. Also the dust ports are not easy to get hooked up to a shop vac without some kind of diy engineering”

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Posted 1 week ago

“Very nice smaller sander. Plenty of power it removes stock quickly. I have a small shop and this one does everything I need.”

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Posted 5 months ago

“I purchased this belt / disk sander to replace a Portable Cable sander that was the same size and uses the same size belts and disks. They look identical but have some design differences. To remove the sanding belt from the Porta Cable, you take one guard off which consists of removing one screw and just loosing another. To remove the belt from the Rikon, you have to remove the same guard, the adjustable tool rest plate from the front and the belt sander support bolt from the back. My main problem with the design is that if you have the tool rest set at a certain angle, you have to reset it. The tool rests are cheap made and can flex. The ones on the Porta Cable are solid metal. I don’t plan on returning this sander and the sander that looks better built is $1000. I paid $300 for this one after taxes. It will work for what I bought it for which is light sanding and shaping. If you do heavier work and change belts often, you may want to look for something else.”

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Posted 9 months ago

RH From Frisco

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“The only Rikon purchase (I have several) I ever regretted. Stop on the belt sander is too far up the frame, you only have about 8 usable inches to work with. This design is nowhere nearly as good as the type where the belt is parallel to the disk - instead of being on the opposite end and 90 degrees from the disk. Wastes an enormous amount of space; if you're working on a bench, you basically wind up having to turn the entire thing around to work (unless you want to use the belt vertically). I bought it for the larger disk (8", not 6") - but the overall design is really hard to work with. Too many places where you have to remove several screws to change belts.”

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Posted 4 years ago

MR From Franklin

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“The hardware on this is very thin and cheap. It's almost impossible to lock the tables down to a set position because when you tighten the locking levers, it moves the table. This is due to very poor design and manufacturing. It's unfortunate because everything else about it works fairly well. But this major flaw makes using it very frustrating. You have to hold the table a couple of degrees from where you actually want it set, accounting for the fact that it will move when the locking lever is tightened, then tighten it, watching it move, and hope it lands where you actually want it. This kind of defect is unacceptable and makes this sander unusable for most purposes. I will be returning this to Woodcraft and saving up for a Jet.”

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Posted 4 years ago