Thread: Replacing conveyor belt on Jet10-20 Plus drum sander

Position the lower slot of the outboard tracker on to the belt, about the middle of the travel, then slide the tracker along the belt towards the rear/ incoming side of the machine, and into the U shaped steel channel. The tracker has a rare earth magnet on the rear, and this connects the tracker to the channel and holds the tracker in position.

My drum sander is bolted to the top of a mobile cabinet I made to hold the extension tables, belts, sponge rubber. My problem was complicated by the fact that the right angled support bracket which holds the bed in position (see in left of attached drawing ) was inserted back to front, with the bracket foot and hold down screws under the bed, so I could not access the belt or the outboard tracker in the normal way by simply undoing and removing the bracket in. To change the conveyor belt , I had to undo the machine hold down bolts, slide the heavy sander away from the support bracket and remove the support bracket.

The support bracket was installed incorrectly because of the restrictions in width of the mobile cabinet. I had turned the foot of the bracket inwards to save space, whereas it should have been facing outwards from the bed, easily removable and giving access to the belt and tracker, as shown in the accompanying picture

A design fault on my part, not realising the significance of the support bracket positioning.