I bought a 10"/20" Powermatic drum sander from Woodcraft last year. It
seems to have an alignment problem: when I sand a board that's about 8"
wide, it comes out slighly thicker on one edge than the other - about
.010" thicker on the inboard side (the side closest to the motor). How
do I adjust this thing so that the spacing between the drum and the bed
underneath is uniform all the way across?
Thanks!
--Steve
dadiOH wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> I bought a 10"/20" Powermatic drum sander from Woodcraft last year.
>> It seems to have an alignment problem: when I sand a board that's
>> about 8" wide, it comes out slighly thicker on one edge than the
>> other - about .010" thicker on the inboard side (the side closest
>> to the motor). How do I adjust this thing so that the spacing
>> between the drum and the bed underneath is uniform all the way
>> across?
>
> Powermatic? Didn't know they made one. With the Performax, one
> loosens the bolts which hold the head to the frame and tilt the head.
> A bit of a fussy adjustment but explained fully in the manual. If
> your machine is a Powermatic I suspect it came with a manual too.
>
> If you ever intend to use the sander for work wider than 10", it is
> not a bad idea to have the inboard drum end slightly higher as that
> prevents a trough at the outboard end of the work.
>
>
Sorry. It is a Performax. I was using it to sand some thin figured
mahogany earlier this evening, and saw those bolts on the top end of the
frame. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what I did with the manual. :-(
Thanks for the help!
--Steve
Steve wrote:
> dadiOH wrote:
>
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>>> I bought a 10"/20" Powermatic drum sander from Woodcraft last year.
>>> It seems to have an alignment problem: when I sand a board that's
>>> about 8" wide, it comes out slighly thicker on one edge than the
>>> other - about .010" thicker on the inboard side (the side closest
>>> to the motor). How do I adjust this thing so that the spacing
>>> between the drum and the bed underneath is uniform all the way
>>> across?
>>
>>
>> Powermatic? Didn't know they made one. With the Performax, one
>> loosens the bolts which hold the head to the frame and tilt the head.
>> A bit of a fussy adjustment but explained fully in the manual. If
>> your machine is a Powermatic I suspect it came with a manual too.
>>
>> If you ever intend to use the sander for work wider than 10", it is
>> not a bad idea to have the inboard drum end slightly higher as that
>> prevents a trough at the outboard end of the work.
>>
>>
> Sorry. It is a Performax. I was using it to sand some thin figured
> mahogany earlier this evening, and saw those bolts on the top end of the
> frame. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what I did with the manual. :-(
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> --Steve
Amazon has the manual on line in pdf.
Steve wrote:
> I bought a 10"/20" Powermatic drum sander from Woodcraft last year.
> It seems to have an alignment problem: when I sand a board that's
> about 8" wide, it comes out slighly thicker on one edge than the
> other - about .010" thicker on the inboard side (the side closest
> to the motor). How do I adjust this thing so that the spacing
> between the drum and the bed underneath is uniform all the way
> across?
Powermatic? Didn't know they made one. With the Performax, one
loosens the bolts which hold the head to the frame and tilt the head.
A bit of a fussy adjustment but explained fully in the manual. If
your machine is a Powermatic I suspect it came with a manual too.
If you ever intend to use the sander for work wider than 10", it is
not a bad idea to have the inboard drum end slightly higher as that
prevents a trough at the outboard end of the work.
--
dadiOH
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