Thank you guys for help. Gloat

[Eduard Nemirovsky]

After all your great help (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=144175) I went to check this Performax 22-44. Owner,likely for me,change his hobby to car restoration and was ready to sell drum sander. He asked $1000, I paid $550:D:D for:
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and four new boxes of sandpapers and manual
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It was made by Performax, has a Leesen :Dmotor rewired for 220v
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Now I have just a few problems - I need to make a space for DS
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and clean machine
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Question :confused:how to clean out this discoloration on pressure rolls:confused:
Thank you again for your help.
Ed.

[Jon Prouty]

I saw your other thread during lunch... okay tell us. Did you get to run it at the sellers place? Did you run a test board and make sure it came out okay? I would love to find one but even at the $550 it make me nervous. Some day.... some day.

Congrats on the new toy... er tool.

JP

[Carroll Courtney]

Worth ever penny,nice gloat----Carroll

[Chris Nolin]

$550? Wow! Give us some negotiating hints on how to talk someone down almost 50% off their asking price? Did you take along a guy named Vinny?

[Eduard Nemirovsky]

Thank you, guys.
Owner wasn't really sure about a price. His logic was - I bought it for $1700 and want to sell for 2/3 of it.
I did "test drive":D with oak board I had in my car. I did check everything. It is a very small defect on edge of the belt, but everything was running very smoothly:D:D.It is no run off and drum is pristine clean, previous owner used in 10 years only twice, but for two big projects.
Before driving there I printed out search result for all 22-44 DS from CL around the country. Median price were around $700 but newer models.
What should I use to clean all old crease??

Ed.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Ed,

If that belt is rubber, use a mild soap and water to clean it. Don't use alcohol. It will harden the rubber. We found out the hard way on old capstan drives on the reel-to-reel tape drives used for data storage.

[glenn bradley]

Congrats. Well done.

[Van Huskey]

UMMM, you did NOT get a Performax 22-44 you got a 22-44 PRO... :D

Thats the equal of the Jet 22-44 Pro (you can download a manual at the Jet site if you need it) which is a much nicer/stronger sander. Everyones price recommendations were based on a regular 22-44....


Let me just say YOU SUCK!!!

Man do you suck...


edit: I see you got the manual, you can get parts from Jet also

[Gary Muto]

Congrats, you bought a 22-44 Pro model. It is probably worht closer to the asking price than we discussed yesterday. Nice work.

[Cliff Holmes]

Uh, yeah, that's a pro model. You got a major score there, buddy ... :D

[Eduard Nemirovsky]

I forget to mention that:D:D:D

[Julian Wong]

Uh, yeah, that's a pro model. You got a major score there, buddy ... :D


Ok, pardon my ignorance, what's the difference between the pro model and the non-pro model? Features?

[Van Huskey]

Ok, pardon my ignorance, what's the difference between the pro model and the non-pro model? Features?


In this case it is the Pro 3 which has a 3hp motor (the "regular" 22-44 and the Pro have 1 3/4hp) and it is built a good bit heavier, not really much on the "feature" side. It has the large open web casting above the arm that reinforces it, though I have never seen a regular 22-44 deflect much if any. The 22-44 Pro 3 goes for about $2100 most of the time, even on one of the Jet 15% off sales it is still about a $1900 sander.