Jet 18/36 Drum Sander

[Sawdust Maker]

Thanks for a great writeup.

My men's shed bought the bigger machine the 22-44. The paper is 80 wide and I'm having to have a bit of a play getting the 76 mm to fit. Not helped by getting the all thumbs clutz to help!

I have a 16/32 Jet sander. I bought sanding paper by the roll. The last piece ended up too short. I decided to "economize", and use up the short ends by joining 80# and 120# to make one strip. Now I could coarse sand on one side of the machine and fine sand on the other side. Good in theory, but 80# paper is considerably thicker than 120#. Good idea but not really practical.

Jim

Hadn't thought of doing that (I've the 15-32 as well). Now I know not to

[Ambrosia]

I've had the Jet 1836 sander for about a year now - haven't used it much but overall I'm satisfied. I finally got around to fitting a digital height gauge to it and thought a post on the installation might be useful to someone.

Basically, I made a tee slot nut to fit in the motor cooling fins. The iGage transducer fitted perfectly inside the motor support casting.

I also made up a knob for the cover catch as it's a real pain to have to fetch an Allen key every time I want to run the cleaning rubber over the paper (which I should do more often).

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[Xanthorrhoeas]

Thanks for the post and photos. It’s great to share these insights.

[fletty]

Sorry for the late arrival in this thread but I started looking because I was searching for clever ways to install a digital height gauge on my JET 16/32 ...... and I found it!
I fear I may have already posted this (?) but I mounted my JET 16/32 on to a small filing cabinet mostly because I was getting frustrated with the unusable storage space in the supplied A frame support.

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I also fitted outrigger castors, and a pair of swing-out ‘gates’ with attached Carbatec roller stands to act as infeed and outfeed guides....

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When not in use, the ‘gates’ swing back against the sides and the roller stands tuck in around the back below the motor....

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One extra thing Hong I keep promising to do, is to fit some sort of positive lock to hold the infeed ‘gate in the open position because the ocky strap I currently use is just SO unbecoming

[nickwithaz]

Thanks for a great read Ric. Review was very useful, but the entertainment was even better.