JET 2" x 42" Belt and 8" Disc Sander, 3/4 HP, 1Ph 115V (Model J-41002)

first off before I get into this specific product, know the time and energy I spent looking into all of the belt sanders avauilable, the companies and if they are a legit company, if they will stand behind the product etc.... How reliable the products are and so on..... If you are in the market for a 2" belt sander, you can buy one of those cheap pos "Harbor Freight" brands like Chicago something, it's on amazon and all the other CHINA made crap. If china made a decent product i wouldn't care, but they don't. The pieces inside are plastic.what they say is cast iron is stamped sheet metal. as the sayiong goes, "YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR" Now as for this incredible buy. Firest off, I did allot of research on Jet, the company. You can do the same, They give a 2 year factory warranty, have repair centers all over the country and after the warranty is over you are not on your own. If it goes down, you need a part you can contact them they will firect you to the nearest service center and you can still have it serviced or get parts and service it yourself if you are that type. Point being, there are parts available for these! WhY? JET is a legit manufacture and company. Even Craftsman who had a good reputation for quality is a joke these days when I looked at their belt sanders. (all plastic.) Packaging was perfect, easy to open and get out (although this thing is a real machine and weighs a ton cause it's made of metal not plastic.) Assembly is a breeze, took 20 minutes. Everything fit perfect, was level, didn't have to do any adjustments or modifications. This belt sander has POWER, does not bog down no matter what. I am so so happy with it. I have owned machines 2 and 3 times it's price and this one in my opinion is as good if not better. I will be buying allot more Jet products in the near future as I am setting up a new shop. Tracking and belt change is also easy. This thing is so user friendly, I could not be happier!

Works like a champ! I really do love it. I acquired this primarily for the belt grinding, and I have a complete set of coarse thru extra-fine belts. I leave the side off as I change belts frequently, which is fairly easy to do... more difficult with coarse belts. I've used the disc grinder several times and it is working great too. Now I need the vacuum system setup as the Jet will take metal off easily (with good belts). I did something stupid and needed support help. Because I messed with the tensioner incorrectly, I needed some help getting it working properly again. Mary in customer support was awesome, and she helped me get manufacturing images and instructions (typical of far east manufacturers - you must look at the pictures and do some interpretation yourself). All in all a surprisingly great experience. BTW as an aside, I purchased a bunch of neodymium magnets and placed them along the bottom where the belt runs. It is amazing how much metal gets attached to them... worth the effort if you like your lungs!

Received my unit yesterday, it is the newer gray model (so that's not a big deal). Assembly was fairly easy, it does need some adjustment after all it was shipped, weighs 70 lbs (shipping weight) so I'm sure the shipping folks weren't exactly delicate. There was a small section of casting flash on the edge by the disk which hand to be filed down so the dust collector would fit. They also send a few allen wrenches which don't actually fit the bolts you need to loosen for adjustment (still haven't figured out what they are for, guess I need to revisit the directions). The plastic dust collection cover for the disk was/is slightly warped and there were a couple of nubs that needed trimming to fit but it was fine after all the screws were installed. Do check tracking BEFORE you turn it on, mine was slightly off and put a little nick in the plastic housing but I'm sure that this machine will see worse. The machine is actually quieter than I expected and comes with a 100 grit belt and disk installed. Belt change is simple, not flawless (you have to finagle the belt out between the table and platen) , but simple enough. There are some reviews about the platen being bent, I believe the angle is by design to encourage proper grid pressure to the belt. Make sure when you adjust your table it is 90 degrees to the platen and not the belt. Slack belt grinding can be don by removing the platen or by grinding above it. Remarkably, it DID NOT burst into flames, smoke, spark, fly into pieces and cause mayhem as some of the reviews would lead you to believe would happen. Bottom line, initial feeling is this is a good unit, plenty of power, fairly quiet motor and decent build. None of the "issues" are deal breakers, I really couldn't find another mid range grinder that I liked so why 4 stars and not 5? The price point seems slightly high. For almost $500 I would expect perfection, no flash, no warped covers, etc. but that's just me. Most importantly I don't regret the purchase

Heavy duty and high quality, Belts are easy to find on amazon, Easy to work on it and super stable ( heavy, thats good). Not loud and must for shops, pro or home. I use it every week for all kind of projects. Great for knife sharpening as well. Motor is super strong, I sa unable to slow it down no matter what material i work with or how hard i press in it. Yeah its pricy but you het your money back with years of use and high quality. I got cheap Ryobi one and got tired of it. Glad i seen many on this one. highly recommended.

The machine is heavily built for a bench top, and it seems to run fine. However, when I got it, the sanding disc plate had more than 0.20" of runout...almost a quarter of an inch. This is terrible. I was able to sand out some of that but not all. I'd have to mill through the thickness of plate! Fortunately, I had no trouble contacting Jet support and they sent out new, true plate right away. Like one of the other reviewers, I was frustrated with the fact that you have to remove the table in order to change out the belt. But in 5 minutes I cut off a slice of the table with a grinder. Much better. See photo. Also, the safety cover for the belt has two knobs that are a little tedious to remove each time you want to change the belt, which can be every couple of minutes. So I epoxied 60x10x3 mm neodymium magnets to the inside of the cover (see photo). This holds it on and is easy to pop off when you need to. I do recommend either stacking two 3mm magnet bars, or better, get the 5mm ones. Then I epoxied the original knobs into the cover (photo). Now it is a pretty decent machine.

I wanted the 1" x 42" belt sander, but it didn't seem heavy duty enough so I bought the 2" x 42". The 2" x 42" motor is 3/4hp vs. 1/3hp, the disc sander is 8" vs. 6", and I like that the belt and disc are directly driven from opposite ends of the motor. I only had to make very minor adjustments to get the belt to run true. Then I easily made minor adjustments to the idler and motor pulleys to center the belt. Very pleased with my purchase. As shown in the photo. I made a new work surface, with a smaller cut out for the 1" belt, out of 1/2" thick steel. Now I have the heavy duty sander with the 1" x 42" belt.

I don't usually write reviews on Amazon but after reading dozens of mixed reviews about this Jet sander and then finally receiving it in the mail today, I just couldn't let it slide. This tool is excellent. Well-machined and thoughtfully designed (although the belt changing issue with the table could be improved). Yes it's heavy, but I don't plan on toting it around, and I vastly prefer that it stays in one place on the bench. My old, lighter Craftsman liked to wander. The tool arrived in good shape and I had it assembled, tables squared and belt trued in eleven minutes. It's more expensive than some others, but, as they say, you get what you pay for. I can go on, but suffice to say that I'm really glad I made this purchase.

First off, I'm a Jet fan-boy. I have a Jet cabinet table saw, Jet 8" planer and a Jet 14" bandsaw. The cabinet table saw is an amazing piece of equipment as is the 8" planer. The bandsaw is okay, not great but okay. Buying a Jet sander was a painless move for me. After reading a bunch of reviews about the Jet 1 and 2 inch sanders I was prepared for the disc part to have too much run-out like many other have complained about. Yup - I have way too much run-out, I measured it at 0.0012 inch which is quite a bit of wobble. So Jet customer service gets a phone call Monday morning. So what about the rest of the sander? The poor double wall shipping box and Styrofoam did not fare too well. The Styrofoam did a great job of turning itself into a bunch of little pieces that managed to get disbursed all over my shop when I unpacked the sander and a corner of the casting around the disc side managed to break off. Not a big deal - only cosmetic and I epoxied it back on. Now for a WHAT THE CRAP moment???? To adjust the belt tracking you need a 5mm hex wrench and a 10 mm open end wrench, conveniently NOT INCLUDED. Hello Jet?? There are other metric hex wrenches included but none for the tracking. Unbelievable. I used the belt part of the sander and I had to adjust the tracking twice over 10 or 15 minutes of use but I suspect this was just the parts and/or the belt getting broken in. The tracking adjustment is very precise and I easily got the belt smack-dab in the center of the top roller. Hopefully it will stay there. Dust collection - there is a separate port for the belt side and the disc side. I think I need to build a manifold out of sheet metal that will connect the two ports on the sander with a single 4" outlet for my Onida Dust Gorilla (what an amazing dust collector by the way. :-) I will keep this review updated as things evolve.