edge sander?

[robinson46176]

but the problem is, when you need to use the auxilary table, you have to find places to put the stuff that was sitting on the table...

Yep... Temporary flat spots are a curse.
The 510 auxiliary tables would probably be OK as shelves for me though. I am pretty sure I have not used them in the last decade... Maybe not in the one before that. I doubt that I would ever sell them since they were part of the original buy of my 510 so maybe shelves would be a good use for them. Then in the event I wanted to use them I could just take the stuff off of them (and temporarily load up some other flat spot) to use them and put them back.


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[damagi]

I, too, think that is what the OP had in mind. And, thanks to his question and the ensuing suggestions, I had the opportunity to do just that today. I mounted it on the right side, switched the coupler so the belt ran right to left, and mounted the table on the side, parallel to the belt.

The only problem is that mounting the sander this way puts the table very low:



I had to lower my hot-rod shop stool all the way down.

But, it turned out to be very comfortable and easy to handle the workpiece:



I needed to round the edges on a 20"-long piece, to make a quick-release mount for my miter saw, and the horizontal sanding machine did the job, quickly and easily:

Thanks for posting this - this is exactly what I was suggesting earlier in the thread. If you want a larger "table" then you can bolt some plywood to the fence. I am happy to see this worked.