I enjoy watching your videos and you have been giving good tips. I have the exact same drum sander and it works well for me. But the wheel to raise and lower the feed table is hard to turn. I bought it used and the belt was skipping underneath. I had to put a lot of tension on it to stop the skipping. And the wheel got hard to turn. I cleaned and lubed all the moving parts but that didn’t help. I was wondering if you have the same problem? I have been thinking about getting a bigger hand wheel.
I can't speak to that issue particularly but I do know that if that hand wheel is hard to turn, increasing tension on the belt is not the solution. The belt has skipped and the issue is timing between the belt and the gears it drives. I believe there is a RU-vid video that addresses this issue. Good luck with this issue.
....I do remember you saying "...I realized at some point, I needed to become a machinist..." Well, there you go. I did notice that they misspelled your name on the milling machine control board...
I had the same problem, the rollers had deep grooves, but you can buy new rollers that come with bearings in the shaft to replace the old rollers from Renovo Parts. They work much better than the originals.
My experience with Renovo Parts has been far less than pleasant. And fortunately, I have the equipment, materials and skill I needed to fabricate those parts. Several years ago, before I had a metal lathe, I bought one of those rollers from Renovo. They didn't have the part. They made it, for a " who the hell are you kidding " price and I got speedy any day sometime within the next month or two delivery. I bought a nice Logan Lathe and said goodbye.
