Hey folks has any one played with the PC 371K 2 1/4 x 14 belt sander? I have the very big gorilla from PC and it’s great on big stuff but….a little too big for work that I would like to use it on like cleaning up some late 1890’s screen doors that I am rehabbing . I refuse to put a modern metal and plastic screen door on a cedar ranch house and found a 2/3 upper and twin stile lower 4 panel screen door 84 x 36 that’s as sound as the day it was made.
Already scraped off two tons of white paint and just need to shorten it a little, sand clean before prime and repaint in forest green. The next job is to reproduce the old ogee molding with a step on the back side that covers the screen edges in rabbated splined set backs for the four 9 x 10 lowers and the tall upper screen panel. The original probably had reed spline that I will replace with space aged stuff. I took almost the full of a coffee cup of those old nasty very sharp 1/4″ blue tacks out of those screen edges VERY CAREFULLY. Paddy
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I love mine. Size will even work one handed. The only complaint is that the power switch is not well located and too small. I also had it on the workbench and dropped a board down on the bench a foot or so away from the sander which made the switch come on. That thing will REALLY move on its own!!
Scott
"That thing will really move on its own."It seems I recall an age when folks had Belt Sander Races. They must have had really long power cords.Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Really like mine.......... great for scribing cabinets and countertops and it should work well for what you wish to do. Seems pretty powerful for it's size. I'd echo the comments about the switch- it feels like mush and lacks a positive feel ( a hole in the wall of a condo I was working on will vouch for that) and could be a bit more conveniently located.
Edited 9/8/2007 10:46 am ET by jc21
I've heard that this little sander gets very HOT during use. Have you noticed this, and is it ever a problem. I'm very close to buying one... I don't own a belt sander yet, and I mostly make furniture with lots of curves and such, so little is better.vincent
BUMPI'lll echo your concerns about heat AND I'm in the same situation with no beltsander and lots of curvy parts...the drill press sanding drums are great for smoothing parts but it would be nice to find something portable...
Mine did at first , almost to the point that I thought something was wrong with it but it it diminished quickly with use. I think some of the comments may be due to your hand(s) being quite a bit closer to the belt (and the heat) than a 3x24 or 4x24 belt sander.
Edited 9/9/2007 1:23 am ET by jc21
My thanks to you and the others, I also met with a few WW friends and the consensus is that it is a dandy for small work but don't think it will like surfacing the 2x6 porch rails on a hundred feet of deck. Makes sense to me, that's what the big one's are for, so I picked one up this evening and will play later. Paddy
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