wizer
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Hi Guys.
I know Olly asked for a review so here's a quick one.
Oddly this was delivered to my old address even tho I entered my new address correctly. Seller seems to think the courier changed it when they saw my name? Anyway as a stroke of luck the missus was visiting an old neighbour at the time of delivery (new owners where not in).
So I got to have a play today.
It was well packaged and the supplied manual was better than most of seen (pictures would have been nice tho). The cast iron top was covered with a very thin cling film material which broke up in to bits when I tried to remove it, so it took a bit of scrubbing to get it all off. But it cleaned up nice and appears to be flat.
However the table has a small niggle that it is hard to lock. You have to really tighten the knobs, other wise there is a slight rattle. Looking at the way it's made I can't see how a replacement would solve this problem so I will come up with an after market solution for this (suggestions welcome).
Fitting the spindles is very easy with the supplied spanners. and they have a handy storage wing on the side of the unit.
Dust extraction is good, but much better if you wrap something around the underneath of the table. As a quick fix I just wrapped the bubble wrap, from the box, around it. With that in place it collects 90% of the dust. Quite impressive really. I will make a proper shroud at some point.
Overall not bad for the price. I think the only real problem is technique, it wasn;t as easy as I assumed. That said I think it was more my bandsaw technique compounding the problem. i.e if you have a bumpy surface, the sander just follows it. More practice in both areas is needed.
Hope that helps, questions welcome.
I know Olly asked for a review so here's a quick one.
Oddly this was delivered to my old address even tho I entered my new address correctly. Seller seems to think the courier changed it when they saw my name? Anyway as a stroke of luck the missus was visiting an old neighbour at the time of delivery (new owners where not in).
So I got to have a play today.
It was well packaged and the supplied manual was better than most of seen (pictures would have been nice tho). The cast iron top was covered with a very thin cling film material which broke up in to bits when I tried to remove it, so it took a bit of scrubbing to get it all off. But it cleaned up nice and appears to be flat.
However the table has a small niggle that it is hard to lock. You have to really tighten the knobs, other wise there is a slight rattle. Looking at the way it's made I can't see how a replacement would solve this problem so I will come up with an after market solution for this (suggestions welcome).
Fitting the spindles is very easy with the supplied spanners. and they have a handy storage wing on the side of the unit.
Dust extraction is good, but much better if you wrap something around the underneath of the table. As a quick fix I just wrapped the bubble wrap, from the box, around it. With that in place it collects 90% of the dust. Quite impressive really. I will make a proper shroud at some point.
Overall not bad for the price. I think the only real problem is technique, it wasn;t as easy as I assumed. That said I think it was more my bandsaw technique compounding the problem. i.e if you have a bumpy surface, the sander just follows it. More practice in both areas is needed.
Hope that helps, questions welcome.
MikeC. informs me that you can use the Charnwood sleeves with it and save a considerable amount of money. I've also located a company near me selling the JET sander for £18 less than what Axminster are charging - might use that 10% voucher for something else then! :wink: 
