🛠️ RIKON 50 151 Sander by Power Tools Review

I don't have much room for a large bench grinder and have already burned out after paying $100 for another company's extremely underpowered 5 inch wobble sander. Fortunately, the Rikon grinder was a pleasant surprise: it's solid, well made, easy to use, powerful and exceeds expectations at this price point. The dust extraction is also good, the only thing that bothers me is the effort required to change the belts: instead of a kind of latch or knurled screw, you have to unscrew three screws…

There are a few things that are very good about this tool. , Ball bearings sealed all round with ABS carbon wheels to support the belt 3. Each screw is machine threaded and metal, not sheet plastic like many 4. tool is 95% hard metal with anti-vibration caps for support 5. separate dust ports for a belt and disc to connect to a vacuum cleaner 6. heavy base with dust proof switch and braided vinyl cord 7. Aluminum alloy support tables extremely convenient to adjust 8. Small footprint that can be

Device arrived defective. The belt would not adjust properly and immediately sank into the body. I investigated the problem myself and found that the idler/adjustment idler roll pin was not fully packed. This resulted in the shaft being misaligned and the tensioner not working properly due to the roll pin. I couldn't get the pin any further so I used a needle vise to get it out. Now I could see that the hole drilled for the roll pin was not straight from one side of the collar to the other…