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Don,
You can buy one of these for $300....
http://grizzly.com/products/Combinat...-Series/G1014Z
Mine is about 12 years old, has been through about a half dozen belts, and is doing fine.

Yeah, I would have been better off, I paid $ 250 for the one I bought because I was in a tool buying mood. We have some Grizzly tools, like our metal brake, and their stuff is nice.

I may give this one to someone I really don't like very much. Reminds me of a 12 gauge shotgun that I sawed off short one time years ago. . Made a pistol grip on it ,barrel was like 12 inches long, kept it next to the bed for protection. One day a buddy talked me into shooting it so we went to a dump and made a target out of a 55 gallon drum. When I fired it the d*** thing blew right out of my hands and the hammer acted like a can opener, slicing my hand between the thumb and finger. Didn't even hit the barrel! Went home with a rag wrapped around my bleeding hand.

I never fired that gun again and said that if someone broke in I would hand them the gun and tell them to shoot me.......they would be hurt more than I would. That gun now resides in some long forgotten river, in a million pieces. This sander reminds me of that gun.

Don

I think we've all owned a tool or two that seems to be Satan spawn! I had a belt sander once that had a habit of getting too much wood off too fast. The damb thing would practically rip your arms off on contact. Bought a more expensive one that has always worked great. I think the original had too much rpms like yours! Mine was a hand belt sander. In the mid west I hear they actually have sander races!