MattFerreras said:
Dovetail65 said:
Had an RS2 , sold it. Pig tail or know you may not need one.
I still prefer my RO 150 and ETS 150, even for sheet work. I just didn't find any application that I personally did where the RS2 was better for me than the RO150 or ETS 150/3.
I would use it to get large glue ups like tabletops to be dead flat. I'm sure I would get use out it.
Still preferred my other sanders even for that. An RO or ETS with a hard pad can make anything dead flat. Actually, the reason I sold it is because I was doing a large top and I couldn't get the darn thing flat until I pulled out my RO. Then I thought why do I have this thing.
Its a nice sander dont get me wrong(really nice), but I thought it would flatten real wood tables etc much better than it does. It doesn't, not quickly. Not initially in the flatting process. In my personal opinion using it for a year it is definitely a sander for the fine finishing, the RO will be pulled out for flatting. I could only use it AFTER the piece was flattened. I could retire in the time it took to even flatten a 60" inlay. The thing is a finish sander, just know that. My expectation(obviously wrong) was a sander that flattened like an RO with a square footprint, its not.
Way back when I had a 1/2 sheet Milwaukee model they dont make anymore. This thing was a beast, no dust collection back then like now, but this sander actually did allow for it and it worked pretty darn well. I remember it being so great, that's why I got the RS2. Maybe I am so used to the RO 150 I got spoiled since, but I never had a sheet sander work like the memory of that Milwaukee. I used to run it across 2x6 deck railing tops and it would flatten the heck right out of the hard to sand green treated Doug fir we used to be able to get(It tended to cup slightly within a couple days, but rarely move after). Maybe its just a memory of a good tool over poor tools back then, but my love for the sheet sanders has diminished. Probably becasue I use my RO daily. I was without for 3 days last week and I just about died. I simply cant work without my Rotex 150 at all anymore. Flattening inlays has been in my daily routine for the last 9 years, from 12" diameter to 72" dia(a table top) and I tell everyone nothing flattens surfaces like the RO 150 with a hard pad, except a Timesaver(over 42" is to big for mine). Nothing I have tried anyhow. I have been looking at some 7" air lately.
