Thank you for this video. I am waiting to get my 5hp Woodmaster DB 550 dust collector finally set up before I use the sander, but I really appreciate your video. Your remarks on feed rate are going to be a huge help. I would have started everything at slow speed. Great tips.
Great tips . I just gotten my used drum Sander fixed. I did the exact thing you said not to do. I was trying to use it as a plainer . I was going through sand paper pretty fast it was tearing out on me. Iv never had a drum Sander before thanks for the tips
Nice review Paul! I used mine today and I thought in the manual it said never sand thinner than 1/4”! I know I have used it on thinner material than that! I have a dedicated vac on mine! It does put out a lot of dust! 😀Thanks for sharing your tips!
Hi Bill, in the manual that I have it says material thickness down to zero. On my woodmaster 718 it says nothing thinner than 1/4” which makes sense on that machine. Great call to have a dedicated vacuum on the drum sander!
Thanks Paul. That's one beast of a sander! Interesting about potential waviness past 1/16". I've only noticed that on my 16/32 Jet if the stock doesn't lay flat.
@@ToolMetrix HI Paul, I normally shoot for about 1/16" thick on my veneers. But, often I am trying to get the most from a particular board and the veneers will end up thinner than that. Maybe down to 3/64" and sometimes 1/32", but 1/32" is getting kind of iffy.
Subbed. I have a WM725. Recently installed a carbide helical head. What a huge difference! Now I’m interested in making molding. Did you ever use your 718 to sand projects?
Hi Ted, I use my 718 to make molding from time to time. It’s a great tool for that and I really enjoy using it for that purpose. I have used it as a sander a few times, mainly for end grain cutting boards. If I was making a large batch of end grain boards I would probably set it up as a sander. For 1 cutting board I usually feel like it’s not worth swapping it over to sanding mode. For any other material (figured wood, whatever) the carbide cutterhead does such a great job that I never feel like I need use the sanding head. I do have to sand with a ROS after planing but just lightly.
This appears to be a single drum sander? I have a twin drum version of the generic axminster type marketed under many brand names. One area nobody seems to cover is checking alignment of the drum/s with the feed table and following on from that,fine tuning the height of the second drum relative to the front one depending on the grade of belt used. After being assured the front drum was factory set and no adjustments needed,I did use engineers blocks to check this and found that it was indeed out of parallel by 1/16,so sanding in a taper across the board.Setting the height of the second drum,once also parallel, is more trial and error dependent on the grade of belt used.If always using the same grits from the same manufacturer little further adjustment is required.
Thanks for responding to my other comment. I do have one more problem I'm dealing with . I keep tearing the paper on the side . I start it on the right side end on the left it tears on the left side. Not sure what I'm doing wrong gone though 4 rolls any tips I'll take thanks
Unfortunately I don’t know what might be causing this. Definitely give the customer service team at WM a call and hopefully they can get this sorted out.
I think you are mixing fractions and decimals. One hundredth of an inch is written .100. One eighth as a decimal is .125 I don't think you are taking that much of a cut on your sander. Nice job other wise.
Thank you for watching. Perhaps I misspoke. Thanks for raising the issue. "One hundredth of an inch is written .100" . That is not correct. .100 is one tenth of an inch. One hundredth of an inch would be .01.
