Hello and hope everyone is doing well. So i recently had some issues with my performax 22-44 drum sander which ended up being the motor coupling. Replacing the coupling resulted in me basically disassembling the sander. Anyway, i got it all put back together and did the entire setup process exactly like the manual said. Aligned the drum and and the infeed/outfeed rollers and had the thing set up perfectly.
Fast forward a few weeks i was sanding a bunch of 12" veneer panels yesterday, and I got KICKBACK from a drum sander (which i didn't even know was possible) and i took a veneer bullet right to the pills. Was curious if anyone has ever seen this. I'm pretty good at aligning tools and i'm positive it is set up per the manual. The infeed/outfeed rollers are supposed to be set up one revolution in drum height above the bed. Looking at other sander manuals like the supermax they recommend 3 revolutions. Also kind of weird the sander actually made a weird like honking noise when the veneer was almost out of the sander, so the stock was only contacting the drum and the outfeed table. Super weird.
Thanks!