I brought a new ETS-125 home tonight and gave it a quick test-drive. I'm beyond impressed; I'm completely blown away.
And I'm normally a pretty critical consumer.
The ETS-125/CT22 combo is truly amazing and really exceeds my expectations. The vac sucked up virtually all of the dust; I was expecting to have a fair amount left on the bench but it was doggone near dust-free when I was done. phenomenal. And quiet, and smooth... shockingly so.
I did have some chatter issues; the sander seemed to bounce around more than I expected sometimes. I had the vacuum turned down to minimum suckage, and initially had the sander dialed down a bit. speeding the sander up to full speed (still at minimum vacuum) eliminated most of it. Part of the problem may have been my motion with the sander; the part I was sanding was pretty small and some of my motions were pretty rapid. Moving the sander more slowly helped too.
But egads; I've been using that vac with my old Bosch ROS and was getting lots of dust. I had expected better performance from the Festool, but I was very pleasantly surprised.
So I wish I woulda bought this bugger long ago....
And I'm normally a pretty critical consumer.
The ETS-125/CT22 combo is truly amazing and really exceeds my expectations. The vac sucked up virtually all of the dust; I was expecting to have a fair amount left on the bench but it was doggone near dust-free when I was done. phenomenal. And quiet, and smooth... shockingly so.
I did have some chatter issues; the sander seemed to bounce around more than I expected sometimes. I had the vacuum turned down to minimum suckage, and initially had the sander dialed down a bit. speeding the sander up to full speed (still at minimum vacuum) eliminated most of it. Part of the problem may have been my motion with the sander; the part I was sanding was pretty small and some of my motions were pretty rapid. Moving the sander more slowly helped too.
But egads; I've been using that vac with my old Bosch ROS and was getting lots of dust. I had expected better performance from the Festool, but I was very pleasantly surprised.
So I wish I woulda bought this bugger long ago....