The SuperMax Tools Story

There's a tool company that's located not too far from my shop, called SuperMax, and we're lucky today to have Warren Weber from SuperMax right her in the shop with us. And he's gonna give us a little bit of a background on the company, on SuperMax. Kind of how they got going, what the deal is. So, Warren, thanks for coming over today, and you brought a little bit of show and tell stuff as well. And what is the history of SuperMax as a cartoon character super hero. Or what's the story? Thanks George Uh SuperMax tools started out as performax products, back in the mid 80's, in the twin cities, about 15 years ago, it was sold to WMH Tools Group. So most of the the mere mortal knows that as Jack, Hypodermatic, that tool group That is correct. Then about 8 years ago, some of the former performax employees got together and they bought the company back from Jet Tools, and created SuperMax tools. Where we expanded the line of drum sanders, brush sanders, and wide belt sanders. That we offer everything from, hobbyist woodworker, to the large commercial facilities. So, Performax and SuperMax are not the same company today? That is correct. There is no such thing as performax Tool company anymore. Okay, then that was again that name was purchased by somebody else all together. That's correct. So, in the SuperMax line, this is a 19 inch wide sander, which you should call it a 1938, cause it will do twice that cause of the cantilever head. Biggest machine you make, smallest machine you make. The Smallest machine we make is 19 inches in width. The largest machine we build is 50 inches in width. But sands configurations still a drum like this. But 50 inches wide, but its not a wide belt. That's correct? That's correct. And on that 50 inch is a cantilever like this one? Or supported two ends? It does not, there's a 19 inch and a 25 inch that a cantilevered or open-ended. There's closed-ended designs that go from 25 inch up to 50 inches as well. That seems like the engineering to get big ones to cantilever would be. That's . That's correct, 25 inch is about the max you can go on cantilever design and keep it actuate. Now this one, people are use to looking at this we got an abrasive roll on there. That one is just a little bit different, so in addition to the sanders like were use to looking at, what's the deal with these machines that you sell that got, wire wheels and flutter sanders and all sorts of different stuff going on there. Well its ticker of the type of work that you can not do with a flat sanding. Where were sanding a profile, so its just a raise panel door or a molding. The flatter sanders are also very well on plywood, because I won't burn through the venire, like a flat sander can. So what's nice about the brush type machine is then you change out that head and out in something like a wire brush for distressing or texturing wood. You could put in a nylon impregnated brush for cleaning or scuff sanding. You could put in cloth polishing wheels for buffing, and polishing. Somebody I worked with barn board, it sounds like this would be a great, this would be great way for them to go, because you could, you're not gonna sand away the cool profile that went in time that's edged into the surface. But you could get the dirt out of the surface, clean in up, make it look a little better. That's it exactly, it will clean it, it will take out any fuzz, or lose grain, and give it a light sanding, but not lose any of the character that was originally there. Well that's pretty, well thanks for stopping in, any last tidbits about SuperMax that you wanna tell us, besides what a great company it is? Well we do offer a full range of products, again from the shallow hobbyist shop up to the commercial, industrial facilities. Theses are just a couple of the small samplings of the cross type of tools that we do offer. Cool well its always neat to hear how companies got going, how they got to where they are today. Thanks for giving us the SuperMax story it was just super. And that takes care of what were learning about SuperMax today. Thank you George.