I could not answer your question but I have a Steel City dual drum sander. My outfeed drum had a bad clip on the trailing end of the drum and it would never hold any paper longer then 2 passes on the wood. I wrapped both drums with hook and loop, and now I do not even use the clip on the trailing edge and never lose my sand paper. It now works like a champ!

 

Will go look at how mine is connected Don, but I think you are right. It would be almost impossible to work in that space.

 

Yep, you can. I did it but had to fabricate a bent iron "finger" replacement to do so. Don't fret, just sleep on it.

 

No matter what I did I couldn't get that thing in there. I took the drum off and installed the clip. What a bit@h. But it's all together and I'm sanding. I still have to tweak the tracking a bit but this thing is sweet. $500 and I got a Performax 22-44. Plus $200 in parts. I'm happy!!!!!

 

I have the Jet 16-32 and I love it, cuts the time in doing the sanding and with the grit I use in it and controlling the feed speed I can sand a whole project and just do slight touch up sanding. Saves a lot of time…. I love it!

 

Hello everyone,
I’m trying to remove the inboard retaining clip and am having issues holding the small hex nut on the Phillips screw.
Any suggestions ??

 

I took the drum out of my 10-20 to work on that clip when I buggered it with the "Tuftool". No way I was getting my big mitts in there, otherwise. It's not that tough to take apart and reassemble. I use a pair of 45° bent needle nose pliers for pulling in the sandpaper there, too.

 

I’m replacing the inboard retaining clip on my 22-44 Jet drum sander also. I bought small wrenches on Amazon to replace it.
The old one came out with no problems !
Just ordered a replacement from parts .
price was $55.00 yikes

 

That happened to my 22-44 years ago. I couldn't find a clip for it so I just wrapped the end down with that shipping tape that has strings in it. I eventually fixed the clip. Never could find one.