State spindle sander replacement spindles

[Randy A Anderson]

I have a State S3 spindle sander and need some more spindles and as all know they are hard to find so being a machinist I was thinking of making 100 and then selling them on Ebay so the question I have is, does anyone know if all of the state models had the same taper with the later machines having the threaded bottom?
Thanks for the help!

[David Kumm]

Go over to owwm.org. There has been much discussion about the various spindles. They should be of help. Dave

[Darcy Warner]

There are a couple types. Tapered, and tapered posi locks.
Don't believe they interchange.

I believe the b4's and s3's were the same without posilock.

[Randy A Anderson]

Thanks for the help


There are a couple types. Tapered, and tapered posi locks.
Don't believe they interchange.

I believe the b4's and s3's were the same without posilock.

[Matt Day]

Randy, I have a Porter Cable S1 that’s waiting to be refurbished. If the spindles are interchangeable I’m interested. Doubt they would be though.