Makita cordless drywall sander

[Michael Kellough]

At Ohio Power Tools

Powered by a single 18 volt battery. It is claimed to run 36 min on a 5 amp battery.

 

[Tooldude]

Why would you want a cordless drywall sander?  If you don't want to choke on dust you will need to have it connected to a dust extractor.  So what's the point?

The rear handle looks odd.  Uncomfortable?

 

[Mike Goetzke]

Why would you want a cordless drywall sander?  If you don't want to choke on dust you will need to have it connected to a dust extractor.  So what's the point?

You can say that about many cordless power tools yet many are sold.

 

[waho6o9]

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Looks like one can hook up a dust extractor

 

[kevin clifford]

Makita makes a 2 battery powered dust extractor. Fits perfectly for this.

 

[Bob D.]

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Looks like one can hook up a dust extractor

It just looks heavy. Between batteries (or is it a single battery) and the rest of the tool it just looks heavy.

And in the photo the operator is bent over at the waist so he'll have a sore back at the end of the day after holding all the weight with his arms extended out in front of him.

I know they pose the models and the tool in ad shots to best display the product but still it seems awkward to use to me. But that's just me looking at the photo and never having used one.

 

[Jiggy Joiner]

Cordless is the future without doubt, I've even been buying cordless stuff for workshop use lately.
The cordless extractor is great, I have a bluetooth version, that's dedicated to a plunge saw. It doesn't have the power of a CT etc but, works great, at least with the plunge saw.

I think Makita missed an opportunity though, where as Festool has bluetooth built into batteries, which makes perfect sense. Makita, actually have there's in the PCB where a module plugs in. So Makita are currently doing a line of some tools without bluetooth, and an identical line with bluetooth.
That is a very odd way of doing things I think. If you've just bought a few tools from them and an extractor, and realise there is a bluetooth version of everything available, you'd be a bit upset.

The bluetooth tools are obviously more expensive, sure a better way is to follow Festool's lead, or make all the cordless stuff that has dust ports, bluetooth?

 

[Bob D.]

I wonder which configuration is less expensive for the end user/owner. If I buy one tool with BT build in or buy multiple batteries each with BT technology.

For one I only need to pair the tool with the vac and can use any battery. Battery is drained I just swap to the next no problem. For the other configuration I need to have all my batteries paired to the vac so as I swap them out during use I'm not stumbling to pair up a second or third battery as I go about my work.

Is there a limit to how many BT slave units (batteries) you can pair to a BT master(vac or other device)?

Is it possible to sync Makita BT with Festool BT or are they using proprietary protocols that would prevent this. So if I have a mix of BT capable tool brands I could use them all with my BT enabled CT-36 for example.

 

[Jiggy Joiner]

What I like about Festool's bluetooth is, you can put a bluetooth battery on an older tool, and it instantly becomes a bluetooth tool.

Makita and Festool bluetooth aren't compatible as far as I can remember.

 

[live4ever]

Bluetooth in the battery was definitely a smart way to go.  Kudos to Festool on what I assume must be a patent win.