Triton Oscillating Spindle & Belt Sander – 450W Dual Mode, Tilting Table, Variable Sleeve Sizes, Orange (TSPST450 / 977604)

Solid little unit that performs way above it's price. There are some very good reviews here and there is little I can add. Make sure you buy some finer grit papers to use with it, though, the 80 grit is very coarse for a sander like this. One thing to mention is the unit is pretty high and I made mini table to stand it on. The table I made is 50cm square and a height of 70cm. It didn't have to be that wide but a few experiments showed it was wise for added stability. The table was made out of some cheap stud-work timber, so it only cost a few pounds, but built like a tank so it was nice and heavy and stable. I also screwed the Triton down with four 12ga screws. The 70cm height puts the works surface of the sander at 103cm, which I found just about right. I eventually added a small draw under the table to keep all the extras in. Although the storage on the sander works well, it's a bit of a nightmare vacuuming the sander without all the extras ending up on the floor or the inside of the vacuum cleaner! The hose you see attached is just a Karcher. The main switch failed about six months in, but one email to Triton and I just bought a new switch from an independent supplier. The switch arrived the next day. It was easier to do this than to return the sander to Triton. I didn't find dust a problem with the sander. Checking this out, it seems the taller the wood you sand, the less the vacuum collects, so its all about height of the workpiece. I usually sand wood that is at most a few inches thick so dust isn't a problem. My only minor complaint is that there is some vibration a the small diameter end of the belt sanding attachment. All in all a very useful sander. The performance is great for the money.

I have been working on a number of small projects in the garage lately. I have made a few Christmas decorations, some shelves and other larger projects such as a bird table. We recently had a fence replaced and I made use of the 4” x 4” posts that were removed, along with reclaimed wood that I had stored previously and off cuts from the new fencing to make it all. I had to cut the wood into strips on my table saw and bandsaw, so it needed a lot of sanding after being processed. For years I have been using a bench mounted belt and disk sander, but I find it very difficult to sand smaller pieces on this and have managed to sand the end of my fingers a little on occasion! Not badly, but in the end I decided that I wanted to find a better solution that gave me more control. After a lot of research I decided to buy this Triton machine. The reason that I picked this one was because Triton have a good reputation, (If you look at reviews, their products are always well liked by the majority of buyers) and I also wanted a machine with a belt sander as well as spindle sander. With this set up you get the best of both worlds. A belt sander for straight edges and spindle sander for curves. The belt sander is great for smaller pieces and that is what I wanted it for. I have way more control with the belt vertical and the table horizontal. As for a spindle sander, I have wanted one of those for years! Please see the video for an in-depth look at it. Also, with a 3 year guarantee you can’t go wrong. This machine feels well made; it comes with 5 spindle sanding sleeves, ½”, ¾”, 1”, 1½” and 2”. There are only 4 rubber drums and this is because the ½” sleeve fits directly onto the spindle without a rubber drum. The other Triton spindle sanders come with a 3” drum. In fact, if you order Triton sanding sleeve sets you will get 6 because the 3” is included. Now, the thicker end of the sanding belt is actually 3” in diameter, so you can use that to some extent, but only on semi circles and a 3” drum would be much more versatile on curves giving full 360 degree access. I decided to buy a Triton 3” rubber drum assuming it would fit the spindle being a Triton spare. Sure enough it fits and I made my own insert to allow me to use the 2" spindle safely. Making this was easy using the sander to fine tune the insert and make it fit. So now I have all of the available spindle sizes. As far as sanding is concerned, it is great, very aggressive with the 80 grit sleeves and belt. Luckily the sander has a dust extraction port and my shop vac fits perfectly. Dust extraction is brilliant, you can see this on the video with hardly any dust being thrown out. There is a space for everything on the sander base and if you are careful about replacing everything once you have finished with it, you will always have everything at hand. The motor is not too noisy, you can clearly hear the shop vac over the top of it in the video and the camera is much nearer the sander. I checked that everything was square to the table and it was spot on. So, I love this machine. I notice that other manufacturers sell identical models and I do not know whether they are different in any way, but the three year guarantee clinched it for me. I am very happy with it and it is a brilliant addition to my workshop.

I like this machine, a lot. I'm really glad that I decided to buy it. It isn't perfect, but it is a great addition to my workshop. The manual is bloody awful. Triton have saved money by printing it as an A5 booklet - which results in the type being so small that you need a magnifying glass to read it! Fortunately, the machine is pretty much intuitive. I was able to read the bit that suggest that the machine should be bolted to the workbench. Absolute nonsense! This machine does not vibrate - I have it sat on a cutting mat on my bench and it doesn't move. It is also relatively quiet - I think that my shop-vac makes more noise than this sander. The first job that I gave it was removing the bandsaw marks from a bunch of toy cars that I am making for my grandchildren. It accomplished that very quickly - very much quicker than I could have done using sanding drums and flap-wheels on my pillar drill. It absolutely saved me hours of boring sanding and for that reason alone, I love it to bits! For the first time in my life, I actually enjoyed sanding! I really liked being able to transition flat surfaces into smooth curves using the belt sander. I thought that I would be using the spindles more often than the belt but that wasn't the case. The spindles are great for internal curves, but for external curves, the belt is the way to go. When you look at the photo of the wooden toys (work in progress) you can't help noticing that my bench is covered in dust. Dust extraction by vacuum when using the spindles is surprisingly good . But when using the belt, it isn't. Which is why my bench is covered in dust. I have since fixed this problem by constructing a hood - by cutting a plastic storage box in half. The difference that the hood makes is remarkable, because most of the dust is thrown toward the back of the machine. The hood catches it, preventing it from being sprayed all around the workshop. The next problem was that the fixed portion of the table and the moveable part wasn't smooth. The two parts didn't line up - there was a step. This was easy to adjust. I simply loosened the hinge-bolts and nudged the table into its correct position. On inspection it was clear that my machine had been assembled by an apprentice - look at the brutality that has been inflicted on the poor hinge-bolt! That apprentice was clearly unaware that the two parts of the table need to be inline! But, hey-ho, this is a budget machine. If I had expected precision, I'd have paid a lot more money. The machine is supplied with a set of 80-grit spindle tubes and one 80-grit band. These produce a surprisingly good finish for a coarse grit. But I knew that I would need more, and finer, abrasives than were supplied with the machine, so I ordered Triton bands and tubes in 150-grit. The 150-grit tubes are fine and work as they should. The 150-grit bands, however, are terrible! Truly awful! How can Triton put their name to such an appalling product? OK. I know that Triton don't make abrasives, they buy abrasives. But their incoming quality control people need a succession of well-aimed kicks up the bum for accepting products as bad as this. The seam that joins the band is lumpy and sets up a distressing knocking vibration that cannot be good for the machine and makes working unpleasant and difficult. I'll be returning those Triton 150-grit bands as unfit for purpose. I have already ordered alternative (and finer grit) non-Triton belts from a specialist abrasives supplier. In conclusion: 1. It works well and makes sanding (almost) a pleasure. 2. Dust extraction (with a vacuum) is very good when using spindles, but not so good when using the belt-sander. 3. A simply-constructed hood makes a big, really big, improvement to dust collection when using the belt-sander. 4. Some minor adjustments may be required if your machine was, like mine, assembled by an apprentice. 5. Don't buy Triton-branded replacement sanding-belts. Despite my whinges, I'm really pleased that I bought it this machine. Delighted, actually. And I would (whilst mentioning the above reservations) recommend it to anyone. Used carefully, precision sanding is easy to achieve - and that is a Very Good Thing. I just wish that it wasn't such a ghastly colour.

Ponceuse de très bonne qualité, la table est bien perpendiculaire à l'axe des rouleaux. Rouleaux fournisseur en 80, je conseil de prendre aussi des 120 en supplément pour un travail plus fin car la machine est puissante et enleve rapidement de la matière.

Farò una recensione commentando altre varie recensioni che ho letto in giro, visto che la uso da un po'. Primo, onestamente è più grande di quello che pensavo, ma non è una cosa negativa, anzi. Secondo, ho sentito di alcuni parlare dicendo che il tavolo davanti non è il dritto a 90 gradi, in effetti è vero, mi è arrivata che era più alto di qualche decimo, ma basta regolarla con una squadra con le manopole, non so perché in molti si sono lamentati, invece quello dietro è perfetto. C'è differenza tra altre levigatrici simili su amazon? Sì. Non posso dire dei componenti interni, ma ho notato che questa è dotata di migliori plastiche, le manopole stesse sono in plastica antiscivolo anziché solo plastica di altre marche, in più questa è garantita 3 anni. Le puleggie sono in plastica come ho letto in qualche recensione? Sni, togliendo la parte più lunga della levigatrice sotto c'è un "adattatore" in plastica, ma è soltanto un appoggio, a me no che non lo vogliate rompere apposta, dubito che ri rovini molto facilmente. Per ultimo, ho visto in vari video su YouTube che questa levigatrice funziona a carboncini, andrebbe girata e smontata da sotto, quindi se fra un annetto vi darà problemi, dovreste prima vedere i carboncini, vi rispermierà molto tempo con l'assistenza :) Per ultimo devo dire che è proprio una bella levigatrice, vi permetterà di fare ottimi dettagli sui vostri progetti, io partendo da un blocco squadrato l'ho portato a livello, e poi, inclinandola di 22,5 gradi ho dato alla mia barchetta questo look. Se volete prendere una levigatrice, e avete poco spazio, vi consiglio questa. È veramente comodo la possibilità di renderla una levigatrice per i lavori rotondi. Le uniche due pecche che ho riscontrato, è che a levigare i pezzi molto piccoli, è un po' complicato, soprattutto se il tavolo è inclinato, ma ho preso della grana 400 per questo, così da evitare che scappino dalle mani. Secondo, non bisogna premere troppo il pezzo sulla levigatrice o potrebbe rallentare. In più, è più che consigliabile, anzi, quasi obbligatorio avere uno di bastoncini color oro che se usati sulla carta vetrata in funzione, la puliscono completamente dal legno, o dopo poco sarà inutilizzabile. Sembra scontato dirlo, ma evitate di usarla con i guanti se tenete alle vostre dita.

Ein prima Gerät! Die Lieferung war pünktlich und unbeschädigt 👍👍

Todo correcto. Gracias.

Heerlijk apparaat om heel precies rondingen te maken.