You can clamp the disc sander to your workbench in a temporary position or use the mounting holes to secure it more permanently. Tilting Work Table for Versatile Operation Bevel sanding is easy with the cast iron tilting work table. With a positive and negative tilt option, the large, /8-inch by /2-inch work table supports your work piece in any position.  Piece of garbage, don’t waste your money, I ended up tossing it in the garage after 2 weeks. Unfortunately I should have just returned it but I thought I could modify it to work to some degree of accuracy. I should have known better, since then I purchased a Kalamazoo, impeccable quality made in the USA. I just saw a Rinkon 1x30 belt/ 6" disc sander combo that has a dial-in speed controller. I am curious about the speed controller on this. Specifically, I have an old Delta 1x30 belt/disc sander and am wondering if I can use the Harbor Freight Router Speed control on it. The goal is to hold the unit in a vice with the disc sander horizontal for the purpose of performing initial flattening of slip joint parts. I would go to the surface plate and hand sand on sand paper next. The intent is to cut some time off getting parts flat by hand. Belt and disc sanders, such as this item from RIKON Power Tools, is ideal for individuals who are looking for a solution to sanding and buffing their wooden projects without the need to manually do it with a traditional sandpaper. This particular RIKON Power Tools disc sander even has a safety on/off switch for users to avoid accidents. While disc sanders do provide ease of use, the addition of a safety feature is always welcoming.  While belt and disc sanders are certainly larger than the traditional sandpaper, it won't take up too much space inside your garage or tool shed. You can place it in a corner of the room, and you might not even have to move it around anytime soon. Durability.  It is a 2-in-1 sanding machine which includes a 6 x 6 inch disc and a 4 x 36 belt. NE Atlanta, Georgia Tel. The screws are very long and extend through a plastic housing and into the cast iron base. Smooth, good belt tracking. It did not bog down at all. Figure 13 - dB reading of max and average

I have owned this sander for over a year and used the heck out of it. I am an amateur luthier making guitars and ukuleles. Sanding hardwoods like mahogany and rosewood. Works great. You have to keep drive belt tight and then it wont slow down. I did have to drill out screw head on drive belt cover because it was seized.

Then I could change worn belt and keep new one tight. I love this little sander! I wish I would have got it sooner. I'm a wood worker and boat carpenter it does everything I throw at it. The design is great the disc doesn't interfere when you use the belt like other ones. Don't know what people are complaining about. Remember you get what you pay for. I'm a true believer of that. I love the machine already. I'm a professional woodworker and it sanded 2x6 arm rest for a swing with ease.

It did not bog down at all. Remember let the sander do the work not your arm. And the complaining about the vibration, well bolt it down, that really helps out. This machine will work nicely. It was out of the box, assembled, inspected, safety check and working in 5 minutes. This sander provides the capability I need in tight quarters. Good sander for most projects. Smooth, good belt tracking. For the money, very good sander.

Price: you get what you pay for! Tracking is terrible and when you change belts you have to pull half the machine apart. It is noisy and unbalanced…. I usually do not write poor reports, this is the first. I was excited to try out this machine after it arrived today. I took it out of its mangled packaging, plugged it in, and turned it on. At first the belt did not move, the motor just whined for a few moments. I gave the belt a push and then it began operation.

The motor is ridiculously underpowered, and franky terrible. This tool is a joke, only suitable for extremely small pieces of soft wood, if that. Definitely completely useless for any hardwoods. Worst tool I have ever purchased, I will be returning this asap. Do not buy this tool.

This tool does what it's designed to do. Did not have any of the problems from. The negative reviews. I picked this sander up at a sale at the local woodcraft store on a whim; now I cannot imagine life without it.

I mainly use it to rough out braces and bridges for fiddles and mandolins -- works great. I would have given it 5 stars, but the quality of the product is a bit on the shoddy side; table for the disc sander needed to be aligned; the screws in the chassis are crooked and not square to the chassis - so 4 stars.

Hint: do not use this sander without a dust collecting solution. With those removed, the cover can be tilted up and out of the way at least enough to get to the motor mount bolts. I removed one bolt to see how much "wiggle room" there was, and there was plenty as you can see in the photo. Reassembly went very smoothly. I reattached the belt platen and adjusted the belt a little looser than before and retightened the bolts.

The rest was easy. Before replacing the drive pulley cover, I plugged the unit in and check how everything was running and tracking. The belt tracked perfectly and the noise of the machine dramatically reduced. I just realized I was assembling uh, reassembling my new combo belt disc sander on a Wednesday! With everything running much more smoothly now, I adjusted the disc worktable to 90 degrees, reattached the drive belt cover and started to make some tests.

I should have tested the sound level before rebuilding the unit, but the much quieter rebuilt unit clocked in at a still red-zone average dB. Like most machines in your shop, hearing protection is required. Of late I have become interested in the use of vibration testing for machinery. Vibration is a very good indicator of equipment build and component quality and provides a useful reference for how smooth a piece of equipment runs, how accurate it will be in use, and even how long it will last.

The rms magnitude number indicates that the smoothest running machines in my shop are the jointer and the Rikon band saw. The planer has double the vibration of either of those machines, and the new Rikon combo sander has six times the vibration of the planer. It is extremely important to note that the accessories we attach to a machine can impact vibration levels. We all know that a table saw benefits from a well-balanced blade.

The sanding belt that was preinstalled on the sander was of poor quality. The joint, or splice, in the belt had a defined ridge, or bump, that was adding greatly to the vibration of the machine.

Changing to a better quality sanding belt made a big difference. With all this said and done, you really just want to know, does it sand well? The answer is an emphatic "yes! The dust collection, while not great, is really no better or worse than any other combination sander on the market.

The ability to get to the idler end of the belt platen and sand concave curves is a real plus. Orienting the belt platen assembly vertically expands sanding options. The 10" disc size on the Rikon is "just right" for most shops. Twelve-inch models start to get very pricey, as do the replacement sanding pads.

Six-inch disc models provide so little usable workspace that they hardly seem practical. Remember, you can only use the half of the disc that is spinning down toward the worktable, so a 10" disc has an effective usable workspace of 5 inches. Obviously a 12" disc would have 6" of useful work surface, but a 6" disc only allows you to sand on 3" of the disc. The design of the Rikon combination sander is sound.

The machine is heavy and solid, the components are of high quality. The electrical and wiring, which I had a chance to inspect while the machine was apart, are excellent. Perhaps my machine was built on a Friday or a Monday, but disassembling and reassembling the unit provided me with valuable insight and knowledge of the machine.

All-in-all, the machine represents a very good value for the money relative to the competition. This exercise provided me, and I hope you, with some valuable insight. When opinions of a piece of equipment vary widely in online reviews, all that may be necessary for those who dislike a machine is to get out a few tools and make some adjustments.

And for those who got a machine built on Wednesday, you may have gotten a "perfect" machine, but you missed out on the knowledge obtained by disassembling and reassembling the unit.

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