I have to get the rubber roller on our widebelt redone. Takes min 3 weeks to ship, have it done and ship back. Can i make a steel calibrating drum and use that on a combination head temporarily? Single head with a moveable platen.

Hi Dave,

Don't know about you product or machine. But if you have a softer rubber sanding drum your belt splice marks should not show. If you use a steel drum your belt splices most likely leave marks. This will depend on the type of belt and type of splice as well.

If you swap in the steel drum and end up with splice marks, you ought to be able to lower the platen and erase them.

I need my roller redone also, thanks to an ex employee falling asleep at the wheel. Please post a followup and let us know how your roller recovering process goes and who you used.

Have you tried gluing an old sanding belt to a piece of plywood and dressing the rubber drum by sanding it without a belt on the machine? There is a little more to it but you may get some more life out of it. We did that to a Cemco years ago and it worked.

I have Bill, we dressed it a few times but when we bought it (used) it was ran hard and put away wet. Almost no grooves left of the drum and it is extremely hard, like baked.
Good point about the splice on the steel drum fred.

This is a situation where you should have a replacement on hand. I would purchase new and ship the old for repair when new is insatalled.

I agreer mike but it is a machine that was purchased through house of tools. Canwood brand. No longer in production so no idea where to get a replacement head.

Hi Dave,

A lot of these machines originated out of the same plants in Taiwan.
They just get different labels such as Jet, General International, or perhaps even Powermatic or Cantek. Often very little changes such as color and logos.
If you know the year of production you may be able to x-reference to another brand.

You can make a steel calibrating drum to use on the combination head temporarily.