SKIL 6 Amp 3"x18" Belt Sander with Pressure Control - 7510-01

Works great for my small project exclamation point no complaints at all. Was at least 25% cheaper than my local hardware store.

Works well. Been put through its paces. Like that it tells you when you are putting too much pressure on it. Great for firt time belt sander users such as myself.

This thing saw some action and it can most definitely take on anything 100 times its size.I bet I ran thru it a couple dozen sanding pads any thing from 40 grit up to 220 grit .It held up and for the price this rates a 5 in my book . The pressure sensor is annoying . It doesn’t enable the performance of the tool it just doesn’t take much to see you have it maxed and need to let off or hold it in a different position. Once you have used it for a good day that next day you should have the feel of the best way to hold this tool so it’s doing the work functioning at its peak performance

I tried a few different belt sanders and I found this one. For the price you can’t beat it, works perfectly. I returned a Milwaukee M18 because it was so heavy and bulky. I’m all about cordless, but this is worth the sacrifice! It’s light, the pressure sensor is a great feature, and the belt stays on just where you need it to. dusk collection works well.

Operated grate much lighter than my old Skil full metal body sander. I hope it will last 20 years as it did. I do like the design ez to grip and liked dust collector my old tool did not have this . Overall a good quality sander

Working great

I had a few home improvment projects that needed some real sanding. After going through about 20belts on this thing it's great. It'll run for 30min to let you sand down large parts of a deck which is great. It also does some nice detail work to smooth out joints and glue squeeze. Swapping out the belt is easy and mine does a great job at staying in place as you are sanding. Dust collection is a joke, but I've never had a hand tool that wasn't. Great setup.

Does the job well, without leaving scuff or burn marks (when operated correctly, of course!). I used a very light touch (always had a green light on the Pressure Indicator), and, it practically did the job on its own! Despite the manual claiming that the belts can be "easily" put on and off, I found it difficult to do so; there just wasn't enough slack. The sander's dust filter attachment seemed to work, though there was so little debris that I couldn't tell one way or the other (i.e., was anything vac'd or did most fall on the floor?). I wanted to attach my own vacuum cleaner to the dust port, which claimed to be a "standard 1-1/4 (inch) vacuum hose," but it wouldn't fit any of my multiple portable, stand-up, or shop vac, hoses! I made do by wrapping duct tape around the openning of a smaller vac's hose, then squeezing it into the Skil sander; a tapering dust port fitting would have been nice to fit more than just the stated size's vac hoses, "standard" or not. It's also heavier than I would have liked, and, most of the time, I was forced to use it with one hand, and found it difficult to use, even with two hands (the oddly-named "auxiliary handle" (there is no other!) is not situated well (needs to be extended a bit) and is too bulbous for me (not easy to hold). It doesn't lend itself to being used upside-down or upright, and the manual expressly warns against it, but, at one point, I was forced to do use it upside-down, and, though it was a bit of a struggle to keep it upright (I have no way to clamp/vise it down), it worked (I used my vac hose, not the filter attachment, to avoid breaking the latter). I purchased multiple grit belts from a third party, and they worked quite well. Despite my criticisms, it did the job, and it was well-priced, so, I am satisfied, and can recommend it.