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On the good side:

• The Shop Fox has equal or more power compared to other 12” disc sanders within its price range.
• The Sanding table tilt angle and distance from the sanding face is fairly easily adjusted.
• The dust port seems to work great when a shop vac is attached.
• The unit is fairly quiet.
• The miter table is flat.

 

On the downside:

• The miter slot in the table is not parallel to the in-board edge of the table, so if you want to set the miter slot parallel to the disc face, you must use either a jig or a dial indicator.
• The miter slot will NOT accept a standard 3/8” x ¾” miter slide.
• The Disc face to which the sanding disc attaches is not flat.

 

Either the motor has excessive runout, or the sanding disc face is bent causing the disc face to wobble back and forth/in and out (this is in the horizontal plane-towards and away from the sanding table) so that only the high point of the sanding surface actually cuts (unless a bunch of force is applied, and then it cuts unevenly). When combining the wobble, and the not flat sanding face, it makes it extremely difficult/impossible to do any setup for a precision angle (within 0.1 – 0.3+/- deg or 0.6 degrees total) to be sanded. Even if using a digital protractor, the wobble makes the angular setup within o.3 degree impossible.