DX 93 e Sander ?

[sp3851]

Does anyone out there have a DX 93 E sander ?
Planning to doing some furnature refinishing and would this be a good tool to buy ?

Thanks

 

[Brice Burrell]

Sp, a few guys have the DX93 and they seem to love it, it is on my wish list. Try a search I know we have talked about this sander before.

 

[Lou Miller]

I have one and think its a great sander. Its does an excellent job of not only getting into corners, but also sanding very difficult shapes and contours as well. The only negative I can offer on the sander is that it does not have a plug it cord. Its proven to be an excellent buy for me. I never really thought I'd use it all that much, but I find myself reaching for it more and more evryday. Its a specialty sander, but one that I'll never be without again.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I have a DX-93 which I purchased to use primarily in refinishing woodwork trim in my old house.  Much faster than my little Proxon (like a miniature Fein Multi-Master) and much easier to control than my Bosch Vario (narrow belt sander), and great for sanding contours, inside corners and the edges of trim pieces that are very close to a corner.  It would be a better tool if Plug-It were added, and if motor housing were smaller so it wouldn't interfere in tight areas, and if the speed control included a tachometer - mine hunts for speed no matter the setting on the dial and no matter whether under load or free-wheeling in air.  But it does the job and is easy to control.  Very useful for getting into corners, recesses and rebates.  A near perfect complement to a Rotex sander if you are refinishing a staircase.  I also have an RO 125 and an LS 130 in addition to Bosch 1/4 sheet pad and 4x24 and Vario belt sanders and a Milwaukee 1/2 sheet pad size orbital sander.  If I had to cut back to two sanders, the DX would be one that I would keep.

Dave R.

 

[ejfud]

It's been a great sander for my furniture refinishing projects. I have also found it useful for many other projects.

Gary

 

[bill-e]

While I haven't used one, it seems to me that a detail sander that actually works would be great for refinishing projects.  While refinishing furniture can have a very gratifying result, I've always found it quite tedious and #1 on my list of "Why I hate sanding"

We are redoing a room right now and my wife went out and bought a little B&D mouse sander.  Believe it or not I can't convince her to use any of my Festool stuff.  She's happy to spend hours with "her" sander spewing dust all over ...go figure  ???

 

[Toolpig]

As a homeowner who does a TON of remodeling projects around the house, the DX93 "Deltex" sander is my go-to sander even more than the Rotex150 and a couple of Fes palm sanders.

I've edge-sanded oak floors with it, which is about as bad as it gets.  Works like a dream.

Today, I had to take some 70-year-old lead paint (hard as nails) off of a couple of window sills in some tight corners.  Used the Rotex for the wider areas and the DX93 in the corners. 

You know what they say...."The money's in the corners!"

My favorite sander by far.  I JUST WISH IT HAD A DAMNED PLUG-IT CORD!!!

TP

Does anyone out there have a DX 93 E sander ?
Planning to doing some furnature refinishing and would this be a good tool to buy ?

Thanks

 

[Diver]

I JUST WISH IT HAD A DAMNED PLUG-IT CORD!!!

I'll add to that sentiment,  I used my Deltex a ton the last few days sanding into corners and using the extended length pad to sander under reveals, but boy is swtiching cords a pain.

The Deltex always had the one up on the Fein Multimaster because it oscillated instead of only pivoting, seeing as now Fein has updated the Multimaster to include this feature I am hoping Festool will step in and finally update the DX 93, if only with the Plug-It cable lock and I would be happy. (I don't plan on flush trimming nail with my sander, a la Fein)

 

[dirtydeeds]

you can have a plug it for your dx93e

item number 491 144

you have a hanging tail off the back end but it does the business

and you dont need a degree in astrophysics to fit it

 

[Ned]

you can have a plug it for your dx93e

item number 491 144

you have a hanging tail off the back end but it does the business

and you dont need a degree in astrophysics to fit it

True, DD, but you need to get it from a supplier outside of North America.  It's [acronym=Not Available In North America]NAINA[/acronym].

Ned

 

[dirtydeeds]

ned i bought it early last year, ive just checked the uk website it doesnt look like its listed any more although its avalible on the german website

it was always going to be dodgy this year because new regulations that makes it almost impossible for an unqualifed electrician to do any more than change a lightbulb

non electrician wiring a plug........................ well if you are selling your house and the buyers lawyer finds out you can forget the sale

 

[Ned]

non electrician wiring a plug........................ well if you are selling your house and the buyers lawyer finds out you can forget the sale

Words fail me...

I start at "ridiculous", but I can't think of anything intense enough.

Ned

 

[dirtydeeds]

charity shops wont take electrical goods because they have to have an electrical safety certificate

this lot may SEEM stupid but diy electrical work can be diabolical

my worst case was renewing kitchen worktops, because i was removing a hard wired oven i went to the fuse box. there were only 2 fuses in the box for goodness sake (old house so no RCDs or breakers)

so i pulled the 30 amp, by luck i checked for voltage OH DEAR still live

so i pulled the second fuse 16 amp (and too low for the oven current draw) OH DEAR still had voltage

so i pulled the main house switch.

confirmation....................... the hob was wired to the mains with no fuse

(clearly it was illegal for me to be changing a hard wired hob)

ive also seen main circuits wired with lighting cable

no wonder we have stupid laws, we have stupid diyers

 

[Ned]

As we continue to veer OT...

I once owned a building built in 1876.  The attic still had the old post-and-tube wiring (ceramic insulators and bare wires).  It was live.  It wasn't fused.  And it was hooked directly to the power grid, not through the power company's meter.  Only the obvious age of the connection kept me from being accused of stealing electricity.

Ned

 

[semenza]

As we continue to veer OT...

I once owned a building built in 1876.  The attic still had the old post-and-tube wiring (ceramic insulators and bare wires).  It was live.  It wasn't fused.  And it was hooked directly to the power grid, not through the power company's meter.  Only the obvious age of the connection kept me from being accused of stealing electricity.

Ned

Yikes!!!

 

[Eli]

*OT*

You want yikes?

I went into the walk-in basement of the house we just bought the other day and noticed an extension lead staple up to the joists. I followed it one way out to a motion activated spotlight. Okay. I followed it back and discovered twenty feet of it coiled on top of a cabinet before terminating in a plug at a double splittler, which was then plugged into a four way strip into a single plug. This is 240v. Just leaving the lead coiled like that can make fire magic.

 

[Holmz]

...
... If I had to cut back to two sanders, the DX would be one that I would keep.

Dave R.

Dave - The suspense is killing me.

What is the other sander you would keep?

 

[Kev]

Call me a heretic, but I'm not a fan of the DX93 and prefer using the RO90 in delta format. The DX93 is one Festool I haven't bothered to own.

No disrespect to the people that like it ... I'd imagine it's slightly better when you're performing a job with meticulous precision - and that's rarely me [big grin]

 

[leakyroof]

Call me a heretic, but I'm not a fan of the DX93 and prefer using the RO90 in delta format. The DX93 is one Festool I haven't bothered to own.

No disrespect to the people that like it ... I'd imagine it's slightly better when you're performing a job with meticulous precision - and that's rarely me [big grin]

While we all wait for a 2007 thread to come back to life, ..... I own the DX 93 and often prefer it to my RO 90 since I can sneak it into tighter spots.
Better DC collection over the Delta Pad set-up of an RO 90 for me at least.
I was sorry to see this Sander discontinued.

 

[AlexThePalex]

I'm a fan of the DX93 too. It's just that I'm a little bit bigger fan of the RO90. Since I got the RO90 I haven't touched the DX93 anymore. But before the RO90 came the DX93 was one of my most used sanders and I always liked it very much.