Silverline 972660 350W Bench Belt and Disc Sander 390 mm 350W UK

The belt sander is only 350watts. It’s also around £100 (at time of writing)The belt sander instructions are not great. A series of pictures give clues where the screws go. Mine was missing one of the dust extraction screws so instead of 4, only 3. I managed to find a replacement in my overgrowing odd screws and bolts box.After around 10 minutes if assembling it was good to go.The sander itself seems ok. Smaller pieces of work are handled nicely by the belt sander and for more detailed the disc sander works well too.Any excess pressure on this sander will cause the unit to either stop or bounce around on the desk.Remember though that this is a £100 belt sander.To lock it in any position than horizontal, there’s a nylock nut near the hinge you need to tighten that before use in any position.To make it more stable secure it to the desk. I’ll probably drill a few holes through the base so I can get all four corners secure for a safer experience.Overall happy with the purchase.

For the price it is a good sander. I have used it for 2 weeks now.You will need to buy more belts to get a smoother finish. You can lock the position by tightening a bold at the base. It is a bit tricky to get a good right angle. There were some screws missing but it still worked. The instructions to build could be clearer but it is not difficult to put together. Took me about 10 mins to build. I am happy with it. I just make children’s toys so not very demanding work. I use a dremmel for finishing.

Have used this for a couple of days now, but quite a bit. Noting some of the other reviews I would say I bought a Silverline band saw a while back and was very disappointed with it, so I bought this with some trepidation.Assembly instructions are a bit lacking, there were washers missing in my case, and it was actually damage on receipt (dented), but perfectly functional. Changing the belt is a pain, and there is a gap between the metal ‘plate’ and the tool rest that is annoying. Perhaps I can adjust something there.?It is possible, with a square and some attention to adjust the disc table perfectly square. There are two vacuum extraction point but take care adjusting the housing when assembling as it can foul the table mounting rod, then you have to disassemble. Just rotate the housing as far as you can counterclockwise to give you enough room.I sand small parts on this and don’t think the speed is too low, and feel the power is fine - I still have finger tips!It is noisier than I expected and definitely needs bolting, or at least clamping down. Not found a way to lock the belt arm vertically (other than using the vacuum cleaner nozzle which does me), but I may be not seeing something thereOn the whole I think this is actually a good enough starter tool for the money!

An absolutely awful attempt at making a tool. It was completely impossible to get this to run for more than 10 seconds before the belt wanders off to the right, makes a hideous juddering sound and the belt jams. The problem is the belt tensioner / tracking adjuster. It doesn’t adjust anything it just bends a weak tab of metal more or less. The more you try and adjust it the weaker it gets and the worse the problem gets. It was back in the box and on the way back within 2 hours of arrival. Absolute piece of junk

Great little versitile sander, at an affordable price. Does what I need it to do. I've pushed it quite hard grinding knives and it's held up well. RPM is a little slower than I would like.

That is excellent and easy to use

For what it costs the sander is ok. I certainly wouldn't say its a tool that could be used professionally on a regular basis, its just too flimsy for that. The adjustable table and mitre guide for instance is really quite poor. The guide is plastic, the guide rail is a sloppy fit in the table and cannot be fixed in position either so you have to hold it and the work at the same time whilst using the sanding disk, although this seems be a standard approach with this sort of tool. This is obviously not very good though for accuracy and I will be making a new guide at some stage. I think Silverline could do better than this to be honest. The whole table is out of square in both x, y and Z directions as supplied.Contrary to many reviews you can lock the belt in an upright position using the lock nut (13mm spanner required) that is behind and to the left of the plastic guard that sits in front of the sanding disk, shown in image A in the instructions that come with the unit. This is not mentioned in the instruction leaflet though so I can understand why so many miss it.The belt runs true for me, it just needs to be setup properly I think. Mine worked out of the box though with no adjustment.Some say you need to remove the guard to change the sanding disk, you dont actually. With some care you can guide the disk down into the guard without it latching to the backing plate loops then position it in place. Its a bit tricky though if you are not careful.The sander is OK for what it costs but if you want something better you will need to spend at least half as much again or even double the amount. Its quality reflects its price.

This is a nice product. Easy to set up and easy to use. The tilt arm is very handy. And the 45 deg stand also. Would recommend