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warco-belt-and-disc-sander-now Review and Critique of the Warco BDS Benchtop Belt and Disc Sander.  Odd that belts and discs are still in imperial whilst the rest of the dimensions are given in metric. It weighs in at some 20kg so I was glad that Warco had a sack barrow available to get it to the car. The catalogue picture and specification are shown below (1). The machine comes complete with an adjustable table for the disc, which can also be fitted for use with the belt when the belt is in the vertical position and a separate table for use lengthwise with the belt horizontal. Apart from attaching the tables and fitting a disc the machine is ready to go, possibly! 1. BDS Belt Sander. I. I like this disc sander/belt sander combination. ONLY problem is that when first turned on, you have to push the belt to get the unit turning/running. Other than that It works really well and I have used it on several kydex projects without fail. I like the unit for the projects I do with it but I think that if someone were to put a heavier object like a thicker piece of wood, I don't think the unit would have the power to handle it. Read more. 13 people found this helpful. Helpful. Being a belt disc sander, it contains a 6-inch sanding disc. The design of the machine has a cast-iron base, contributing to the reliability. One of the things that the users find problematic is the quality of the belt guard.  This particular belt disc sander model has no limits when it comes to positioning. It enables you to sand pieces both horizontally and vertically, due to the belt platform position.

Odd that belts and discs are still in imperial whilst the rest of the dimensions are given in metric. It weighs in at some 20kg so I was glad that Warco had a sack barrow available to get it to the car. The catalogue picture and specification are shown below 1. The machine comes complete with an adjustable table for the disc, which can also be fitted for use with the belt when the belt is in the vertical position and a separate table for use lengthwise with the belt horizontal.

Apart from warco belt and disc sander now the tables and fitting a disc the machine is ready to go, possibly! I have taken a few photos of the sander as it came and detailed a few quick mods that I made during it's first inspection.

The initial impression is that it could be quite a useful machine for the workshop but could have done with a little more care at warco belt and disc sander now assembly stage. It has a sticker on it saying warco belt and disc sander now was checked but my version of 'checking' and whoever checked this are not quite the same!

As delivered the machine comes with one coarse belt 60 grit and a medium disc 80 grit Spares are available for both belts and discs in 60, 80 and grit, I will order some grit belts and discs which are probably better suited to metalwork. The main body of the sander is made of cast iron which warco belt and disc sander now a good deal of weight to the machine, it is definitely not designed to be portable.

The belt platen and mechanism is pressed steel about 3mm thick and the rollers and disc are aluminium. As can be seen from photo 2 of the sander the colour scheme has changed from the usual Warco green to a two-tone grey.

The photo shows both the supplied tables fitted, one warco belt and disc sander now the disc and one for the belt.

The disc table is cast appears to be zamak and machined with a slot to take a sliding protractor guide made of plastic. The view of the back 3not often seen in brochures, shows from left to right; a the tracking control knob; b the belt tension lever; c the table mounting arrangement; d the backstop and e the drive belt cover. The table for warco belt and disc sander now belt is an aluminium extrusion fitted to an adjustable cast zamak again bracket. The table and bracket assembly are adjustable across the width of the belt by sliding on two 10mm rods bolted to the side of the belt platen.

The belt table 4 can also be adjusted at an angle to the belt, useful for sanding a mitre joint. The table and bracket is sturdy but not entirely rigid due to flex where the slide rods are fitted to the side of the belt platen. It would be better if the rods went right through and bolted to both sides which in turn would impart more rigidity to the belt platen.

To move the belt from horizontal to vertical just requires loosening one allen cap screw 6 and the whole assembly can be pivoted upwards. This also needs to be done to replace a belt. This photo also shows the dust catching shroud at the end of the belt which channels sawdust down to the 60mm diameter outlet which can be connected to the shop-vac or piped into an extraction system. I did a quick test on a bit of scrap wood and it definitely produces dust a a rapid rate so for woodwork the extract is likely to be a necessity.

The dust collection from the disc is also ducted to the same outlet. Once the belt is vertical the other table, which is normally used with the disc, can be fitted 7. This involves removing the backstop as the table uses the same mounting hole. The table is only bolted to one side of the belt platten and this means there is some flex if you press down on the table.

The protractor is fited onto a length of aluminium 'U' extrusion which slides in the slot machined in the table. There is quite a lot of free play in this warco belt and disc sander now but it should get to within a couple of degrees. It is possible to fit both tables to the belt platen at the same time, this may be useful in some circumstances although I am not sure for what. To warco belt and disc sander now the belt the platen has to be in the raised position so that the belt will clear the support foot and the top of the disc housing 8.

The belt tension lever has to be released and the belt can then be slid off towards the front. Replacing the belt is straightforward the only thing to note is the direction of rotation which is marked on the inside of the belt 9. Apparently the belt join can come apart if the belt is fitted the wrong way round. Once the belt is warco belt and disc sander now the construction of the platen can be seen 10a steel pressing with a couple of reinforcing cross pieces riveted in.

I did note that the pressing process has left the top of the platen bowed upwards slightly, probably about 0. Despite being a fairly hefty pressing the platen still has a certain amount of warco belt and disc sander now flex but I doubt if this would be apparent in use.

The tension roller at the right hand end of the platen both applies tension to the belt and adjusts the belt tracking. The mechanism is quite simple and a clever design but could be better made. The roller has ball bearings quite deeply inset from the ends and a 10mm support shaft, the shaft is machined with a flat on one end to stop it spinning. The shaft is mounted in a 'U' shaped bracket which in turn is restrained in a slot on the underside of the platen The whole bracket and roller assembly can slide both along the table and to a lesser extent from side to side.

In use this bracket is forced out by a fairly hefty spring to provide the belt tension. The operating lever is an over centre design which is either completely loose to change the belt or in tension when in use.

The roller bracket pivots and slides about a short column fitted to the underside of the platen with a bolt that goes through the platen and is held in place by a nut and washer.

The washer in the photo is one I have fitted. A screw adjuster pushes the bracket from side to side and a compression spring holds it in place this serves to adjust the belt tracking. Note that the roller assembly is closer to one side, there is about 10mm at the rear and 15mm at the front, this I believe is the cause on a number of problems I encountered before getting the unit to run. I encountered a few problems with the machine but these were easily rectified and I soon had the sander up and running smoothly.

Before running the sander I pushed the belt round by hand, warco belt and disc sander now caused some very strange rubbing grinding noises from within, I removed the belt and made further investigation. The first thing I found was a a small moulding flash on the plastic housing round the disc. As can be seen in photo 12 the disc is pretty close to the right warco belt and disc sander now side of both the casting and the plastic moulding.

Just above the screw the plastic was rubbing on the disc. I took the disc off and a fine file warco belt and disc sander now removed the offending plastic.

The plastic moulding is actually part of the dust extract ducting, the screws hold a plate over the lower part of the disc. A more serious problem was that the tension roller was rubbing on the 'U' shaped support bracket. I removed the roller and bracket assembly 13 and the first thing I noticed was a hefty dent in the edge of the roller.

The roller and spindle came out of the bracket quite easily. A bit of brute force with the vice, a warco belt and disc sander now hammer and a bit of wood got the bracket back into the shape I thought it ought to be i. With the bracket straightened out I warco belt and disc sander now the roller and spindle This has got to be the most peculiar bit of engineering! Each end of the spindle has a circlip fitted which prevents any lateral movement of the spindle.

To prevent the spindle falling out of the bracket slot two screws and washers 15 clamp the circlip to the bracket - weird. I refitted the roller and bracket assembly and had considerable difficulty getting the spring 16 in place around the tracking control screw. As can be seen from the photo the spring is fairly long and quite thick about 35mm long x 12mm diameter. Basically the spring was too big and fully compressed about 12mm long would not let the roller move far enough to the back.

I am guessing here but I think this might have been found either during original assembly or at 'checking' and rather than fix it properly a pry bar or large screwdriver was applied to force the roller assembly into place. Thus accounting for the bent bracket and the hefty ding on the roller. I found a slightly lighter shorter spring and fitted this 17 as can be seen there is still enough space between the spring turns to allow the roller assembly to move into place.

I also fitted some new unbent washers! On with the bent washer saga! I took the belt guard cover off just for interest, the toothed belt and pulleys simply transfer the drive at from the motor spindle to the belt drive roller.

The belt guard also serves as the support for the whole of the belt assembly and is a fairly substantial casting. The belt guard is fitted to the main body by three large pan head screws which pass through slots in the casting allowing it to slide up and down to set the belt tension. The pulleys are a good fit on their shafts which have substantial flats to provide the drive. They are unfortunately held in place by, you guessed it, a bent washer 18 in fact two bent washers.

I made a couple of 3mm thick washers with a deep countersink and refitted the pulleys with M5 countersunk allen screws The photo also shows a hole just below the belt guard, this apparently is the belt tensioning device. You stick a screwdriver in the hole and lever up against the little nib cast into the cover to slide it up and then tighten the three fixing screws.

The drive pulleys only have a flange on one side so one on the outside and one on the inside to keep the belt in line 20 the pulleys are not interchangeable, the top one has a cast in spacer behind it.

The photo also shows the three fixing screws, they look to be behind the belt but this is warco belt and disc sander now photo effect, they are quite accessible.

Warco belt and disc sander now centre hole is where the cover screws on, you can also see the reinforcing webs on the casting. I think my washers and screws look a bit better than the original! The plate is not quite straight which causes the lower left corner to ride up on the casting where it is filleted between the front and the disc shroud. I tried to move it but there is no slack in the fixing screws. Not a problem but it just catches your eye. You may also have noticed that the belt platen does not go down into a truly horizontal position, it remains angled up due to the rubber support foot.

If you take the rubber off it goes down nearer the horizontal. Another view not often seen in brochures is the underside 22nothing much to see really but at least there is a cover plate with ventilation holes.

I unscrewed the plate and noticed that one screw of the three had not been screwed down. It transpired that the threaded hole was full of paint preventing the screw going in, I prodded the dried in paint a bit and managed to remove most of it and then ran a tap through the hole to remove the rest. Photo 23 shows the inside the motor which appears to be an open frame 2-pole induction motor and the back of the NVR switch.

The cable is clipped securely in place. The sanding disc table warco belt and disc sander now reluctant to stay at the set angle this in main was due to the poor fit of the mounting pin warco belt and disc sander now the hole in warco belt and disc sander now casting. The pin on the rear of the cast bracket 24 appears to have been machined, at least it has what look like machining grooves under the paint.

The pin however is a very loose fit in the hole in the base casting I found a small piece of brass shim which I cut to length and fitted around the pin. The shim is springy and has lined the hole in the casting where it seems happy to stay without any Loctite or similar adhesive, warco belt and disc sander now can just make it out in the photo.

Warco BDS Belt & Disc Sander. Quality, robust belt and disc sander. Features horizontal or vertical sanding table. Table can be used with the sanding belt in a vertical position. Cast iron body, heavy duty construction. Features. Calibrated table with mitre gauge to sanding disc. Dust extraction outlet. Powerful w induction motor. Supplied complete with a belt and disc. Warco Belt & Disc Sander MMA (Spares or Repairs) In Paranoid Expedition Engineering Limited - Sale This auction is live! Please register now so you are approved to bid when auction starts. 1 /4. Bidding has ended. Prev lot: Next lot: a. Auction Date: GMT. Sep 30,  · The Wen comes with a six-inch disc, and the belt sander measures 4” x 36”. With a ½ HP motor, it can spin the disc at 3, RPM and the belt at 1, SFPM. If you have any difficult angles to sand, you can easily adjust the belt between 0 and 90 degrees. Though it is an affordable sander, you will still be receiving a heavy-duty product.

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