RS 2 owners in the US may need to paper-up.

[Cheese]

While we're all aware that the RS 2 has been discontinued in the US, I just noticed that the sandpaper for it is now no longer available on the Festool USA website.

498944-498954 Granat
499030-499037 Rubin 2

Also note that the sanding pads for the RS 2 are no longer available on the Festool USA website.

483679 Standard pad
485648 Non-marring pad

And the sanding pads are also not listed in EKAT.  [huh]

 

[RustE]

Hmm. Was this sander discontinued 10+ years ago?

 

[tsmi243]

Thanks for the tip

RS2E was discontinued about a year ago, in the US. 

 

[guybo]

FWIW, festool sells 230x280 sheets of granat(9x11  for us yanks), they also sell 481523 a hole punch for the half sheet sander,festoolproducts has one listed. guy

 

[rst]

The Makita equivalent has the same hole pattern...I have both

 

[rvieceli]

Yup and the Makita is half the price.

 

[Alanbach]

[member=48572]Shane Holland[/member] - Is this correct? Are the Granat sheets for the RS2 being discontinued? Can you shed some light in this?

 

[Shane Holland]

[member=66185]Alanbach[/member] has not reported the RS2 abrasives to be discontinued. We still have them listed with many items in stock, although there are some on backorder.
https://www.festoolproducts.com/accessories/sanders/abrasives/rs-2-e-abrasives.html

The RS2 sandpaper hole punch (481523) has been discontinued and removed from our website. [member=58842]guybo[/member]

Thanks,
Shane

 

[luvmytoolz]

I know it's an old thread but does anyone here know if the RS2E base/pad use the same screw placement as the RS100, RS200 and RS2?

I bought a replacement pad (suitable for the RS100/200, RS2 as I was of the understanding it also matched the RS2E) for my roughly 40 year old first model RS2E, but the outer 4 corner screws holes are 5mm closer than the matching hole threads on the sanders base. The pad is 181mm centers while the sander is 186mm centers.

A chat online with Festool Aus said it was compatible, but I'm dubious as my RS2E also has 2 screw pillars centered on the long plane about 80mm or so apart which this pad doesn't have.

I wonder if the RS2E design changed at some point altering the screw placement?