Sorry Sasa, can't really help you much further. I don't have a Rotex any more to check what you're saying. In fact, I don't have any Festool sanders at all any more. Festool Australia's incestuous little relationship with the Aust Competition & Consumer Commission was for me the final straw. Any organisation that dictates selling prices in a deliberately anticompetitive manner to punitively enforce a minimum selling price (resale price maintenance) is both unethical and unconscionable.
Either way, there's absolutely no way I'm going to condone, let alone financially support, this type of disgraceful behaviour. The Rotex 150 was the last to go: from nine sanders to zero in 12 months. From 4 saws to zero in the same time. From 3 vacs to 1 in the same time-frame. The last vac I'll keep as it doesn't require any Festo/ol parts to keep running. I can get everything I require from non-Festool producers - Starbags, Domel motors, Nilfisk Alto Wap hoses & accessories, Kemo auto switching circuitry - to keep it running beyond my lifetime.
I now use (& both prefer & recommend) Mafell's range of saws, & Mirka, Delmeq, Indasa & Rupes brushless sanders. The latter 3 are still too new to me to definitely recommend, but I intend to augment what I have with another 8mm sweep Mirka DEROS to reproduce the aggression of the Biggest Rotex 150.
I also have a couple of very old Bosch & Metabo detail & mini ROS which actually perform better in many ways than my equivalent Festo/ol Deltex & RO90 sanders ever could.
I'm sure that you'll find your big Rotex useful. Mine gave me many years of reliable service. I never had any complaints with my RO150, apart from being a bit too big, heavy & maybe a tad unruly to use overhead & vertically these days.... The RO90 , by contrast, was/is just awful. Terrible. Useless. Tiring. Evil-mannered. But in terms of weight, speed & ease of operation, overall ergonomics & smooth running the latest EC sanders from the Finns, Dutch, Portugese/Taiwanese & Italians are just "better mousetraps".
If the Rotex pad can freewheel both ways in EXzenter mode all is well. Remember, the spindle must lock in the "other" mode for pad exchange. No Mirka spanners for pad changes here, thank you very much! If it doen't then send/take it back. I'm extremely doubtful that anything untoward has happened just from turning the spindle 360 degrees without a pad attached. Assuming that I've read your post correctly, that is.
