Engleberg Sanders

How many horse power?

Read the frame number off the motor, and if its less than say...7 hp, find a single phase used motor with the same frame size. Check ebay.

Gunner

Leftwingers are like pond scum. They are green, slimy, show up where they are not wanted, and interfere with the fishing.

Strider

Hehe....

Cant fool me !!!

IF it werent for leftwingers, then all fishing seasons would be cancelled......

It sounds like mine, which says Engleberg / Sundstrand on the label. 4x54 belt, 3/4HP CI motor, CI base and guard. It's one of the nicest platen type belt sanders I've ever used. I paid $100, ready to run, at a DMRO auction.

Ned Simmons

Yup, Sundstrand! Mine is a 1 hp 3 ph, I bleeve. Only flaw that I can see is, unless the bearings are truly perm. lubed, which mine clearly weren't, there is no easy way to lube'em. Looks I will be paying considerably more than you did! In sweat as well as cash!

What is a DMRO auction?

---------------------------- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll

I'm sure the finish would be better than on mine when it came off the Blanchard grinder, and I didn't have any problems. But it'll be slow going if you have much to remove. It probably took 15-20 minutes to take .100 off my platen and the Blanchard was grunting pretty good everytime the piece moved under the wheel.

Ned Simmons

Ned,

Does yours have the spray/mist-er at the dust port? If so, do you use it? I got one, think it is really awesomely elegant--and simple!

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It's got a little nozzle and valve that points toward the exhaust, but I never really knew what it's supposed to do. Do you have more details?

Ned Simmons

Not specifically, but I assume it's a mist-er of sorts, like what you might use on a BP. Except here, the tool is the paper. Also, it proly just helps turn the dust into water-bound sludge. Great idea, if the spray is wide enough.

I have noticed in my own limited experience w/ these sanders, that w/ SS rod, water greatly increases the removal rate--I think. Never had time to really "do the experiment", but my impression was that whenever I wet the rod I was sanding, the removal rate was quite a bit faster, and I was, at the time, measuring to .001.

I'm sure different type nozzles could be kluged, for different/better wetting actions.

---------------------------- Mr. P.V.'d formerly Droll Troll