Brice Burrell
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cerv said:
I really like my DTS as a finish sander but it isn't going to work real well to remove your paint. It's nowhere near as aggressive as the gear driven Deltex or RO90.
another sander dilema. RO150 vs RO90 vs ETS150/5
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I really like my DTS as a finish sander but it isn't going to work real well to remove your paint. It's nowhere near as aggressive as the gear driven Deltex or RO90.
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cerv said:
Now you see how so many of us end up with an entire fleet of Festool sanders. [big grin]
To be a little out of left field here. I have used the Rotex and Deltex and like both. That being said I don't plan to buy either or the RO90 in the mid term (3-5 years). I find that a good scraper plane or smoother does a better prep job and the cabinet makers scraper plane does a better job of paint removal than sand paper. That being said I use a sander for finish polishing and final not for prep and pretty much any sander will do that well. I have a Bosch vibro blade and it is fine for the limited detail sanding that I do today.
From the limited exposure I would be tempted to go with the RO90 as it does a lot of things pretty well. But if someone came to me with some systainers with sanders in them and said "OK pick one its yours" I would be really hard put. Given that I no longer see a need for a sander to remove material but only for finish I would pick the RO90 but that's me.
From the limited exposure I would be tempted to go with the RO90 as it does a lot of things pretty well. But if someone came to me with some systainers with sanders in them and said "OK pick one its yours" I would be really hard put. Given that I no longer see a need for a sander to remove material but only for finish I would pick the RO90 but that's me.
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I don't know, the RO90 is a pretty sweet machine. I will say the dust collection with the Deltex pad is not as good as my DX93.
I use a mix of hard and soft pads. It just depends how flat something is to begin with. If it is all wallered out, the hard pad is a bit though to handle.
I use a mix of hard and soft pads. It just depends how flat something is to begin with. If it is all wallered out, the hard pad is a bit though to handle.
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WarnerConstCo. said:
Wallered out, that sounds like the story of my life. [tongue]
