Grizzly Baby 12 inch drum sander yes? No?

[stoppy]

Looking to add a drum sander to my tools. Will be sanding mostly small pieces. Any one here have the Baby Grizzly, or spend a little more for the larger open end?

[KC]

Looking to add a drum sander to my tools. Will be sanding mostly small pieces. Any one here have the Baby Grizzly, or spend a little more for the larger open end?

If this is your first, you may find it handy enough that you'll want to put everything thought it... so I suggest opening the wallet a bit for the capacity.  Can't imagine you'd be sorry.

[Ohio Mike]

Looking to add a drum sander to my tools. Will be sanding mostly small pieces. Any one here have the Baby Grizzly, or spend a little more for the larger open end?

If it's the G0459 you're looking at, I decided not to buy one after some research.  This was 8 or 9 years ago and they were having lots of trouble with the plastic drivetrain gears self destructing.  A quick check of Amazon reviews shows complaints as recent as 2015 about this problem but no later.  Maybe Grizzly has fixed this issue - I don't know.

Also, the minimum thickness of the G0459 is 1/8".  I'm guessing it can't sand anything thinner because it uses a hook and loop fastening system to hold the paper to the drum.  I need to be able to sand veneer down to 3/32" and sanders without hook and loop (like the SuperMax) can sand all the way down to 1/32".

I bought the Performax 10-20 and it has worked out well for me.


Mike

[stoppy]

It is my first drum sander other than a homemade one I made to use on my lathe.

The more I think about it the more I think I’ll get the larger capacity one.

[Arlin Eastman]

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It is my first drum sander other than a homemade one I made to use on my lathe.

The more I think about it the more I think I’ll get the larger capacity one.

Jim

Three years ago this one shown up on my door step curtsie of some Woodnetter whom I do not know.

It works great and two grits can be installed.  I put 60g on the front and 120 on the rear drum and out pops a nicely sanded piece of wood.

https://www.grizzly.com/products/Grizzly...der/G1066R


At the time the cost was only $995 but I feel even at the current cost it is a great deal.  It is also not Hook and loop but clips on the end. 
Last make sure you have a good DC since if you do not it will leave a lot of dust on the floor and inside.  A 3hp DC is good a 5hp would be best but my

https://www.grizzly.com/products/Grizzly...es/G0562ZP

works pretty good.


I did read up on what you are looking at and it is belt driven not the plastic parts anymore if that helps your decision

https://cdn0.grizzly.com/partslists/g0459_pl.pdf