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   jimmyk | Apr 04, 2005 02:56pm | #1

   "Q: Do you have a make and model # ?

   A: This is manufactured by a Chinese tool manufacturer. The same manufacturer produces products for the more well known manufacturers and if you do a close examination, you will notice that some of them are identical in nearly every detail. Chinese quality has taken a large jump lately and this and the jointer I sold earlier are good examples."

   Why are you selling stuff with no company name? No company name means no company support when it falls apart, right?

   Molten

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   EricAnderson | Apr 05, 2005 12:43am | #5

   The distributor will support me on things that might go wrong.  I had some feet on the jointer and the cap on the spring guard return that I had them replace.  They did it with no problem.  I had no problem with the edge sander.  It was so well packaged that I think I could have dropped it off a building and been safe <:).

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   nikkiwood | Apr 05, 2005 08:03am | #6

   So --------- are you buying or selling the edge sander????????

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   EricAnderson | Apr 05, 2005 02:01pm | #7

   I bought two, selling one.

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   nikkiwood | Apr 04, 2005 03:59pm | #2

   I am confused by your post.

   Are you selling this sander, or thinking about buying one?

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   forestgirl | Apr 04, 2005 07:22pm | #4

   He's certainly getting as much advertising in "under the radar" as he can, LOL!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   notDusty | Apr 04, 2005 05:11pm | #3

          Eric ,

                    I have an older combo edge / profile sander made by Rodgers Co. I use it when I make doors and drawers and to sand shelves . The small table on the left side of the picture you sent is mainly to assist with sanding curves or an inside radius . I use it constantly and rely on it to help clean up machine marks from the TS and jointer . I try and design my curves around the capacity of the sander . As Nikki was , I am also a bit unsure if you still had a sander or a jointer on E-Bay .

                           good  luck         dusty

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   ring | Apr 05, 2005 10:15pm | #8

   Eric,

   I have had one of these sanders for quite a while.  It is not indespensable but I find it very handy, the tool of choice for final fitting of doors and drawer fronts because you can sand right up to any line, even a tapered one, with accuracy.

   One thing I did add - on the far edge of the platform I made a stop, basically a wooden block 90 degrees to the paper.  When fine tuning a door I like to have it rest up against that stop so I can concentrate all my attention on the above-mentioned line without exerting force to counter the motion of the belt.  (Hope you understand what I mean).  Just make the stop easily removable because sometimes like with a long board it gets in the way.

   DR

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   EricAnderson | Apr 06, 2005 12:57am | #9

   Yes, I think I know what you mean.  When I took the photos, I had taken off a stop that looks like a miter gauge that goes on the right side.  I should have left it on, but I forgot.

   You just confirmed my feelings about how it is going to work for me.  I do a lot of drawers and doors.  I have a feeling that it is going to be a lot easier with this tool.  It looks like I have sold the second one I have.  My reserve was met today.  Do you have a good source for 6 X 80 inch belts?

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   ring | Apr 06, 2005 06:04pm | #10

   Eric,

   Yes I do but I'm afraid it won't help you much since I'm in Israel.  Just by the way, this is the only machine in our shop that is not connected to a dust collector, and I'm going to have to do something about it soon.  It sends dust everywhere in no time.

   DR

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   EricAnderson | Apr 06, 2005 06:51pm | #11

   After your post about the stop, I looked at the miter guage and decided that your wooden stop idea was something I should add.  The miter guage does not come close enough to the sanding surface.  I put an adjustable strip the width of the table on the right side and perpendicular to the sanding surface so I have a reference if I want it.  There might be a time that I just want a point contact to the workpiece when I am not sanding perpendicular to a side, so I made the strip removable by using a couple of knobs with a threaded shaft to hold it down.