Thread: Belt Sanders .... Again.

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

The 6 year guarantee by AEG doesn't require you to keep the receipt. You register the machine serial numbers on their website and upload a copy of the receipt; a couple of days later your item is registered.

Can I ask what went wrong with the sander? I ask because I have one and it has coped with many meters of redgum and merbau without any dramas. I've bought a few 18V cordless tools and the corded ROS and not had a problem with any of them either. Did the magic smoke escape or something mechanical choose to no longer be a team player?

The 3 + 3 yr extended warranty was one of the reasons I decided to give the thing a go. Sounds like a good deal in theory.

What went wrong with it ??

First pass, it was warmer than one would expect,
second pass, it was hot,
third pass, it was hopping around like an old landcruiser on the gibb river road
fourth pass, I was looking for the welding gloves to be able to hold onto it.

Much the same as this story .... AEG belt sander HBS1000e

... and quite a few overseas comments about the Ridgid branded equivalent ... which interestingly, seems to have been discontinued in preference for a different unit.


Magic Smoke ..

Nahhh ... Ive had a couple of vacuum cleaners, that the same parent company sells using brand names they have purchased ... so I was able to recognise the symptoms and prevent the magic smoke escaping from the sander,

... by switching it off and leaving it on a piece of corro, to cool down.