Sander and vac question

[HarveyWildes]

I dunno, the RO90 is one of my favorite things in the world, and that category includes my wife and kids, the San Francisco Giants, hot rods and microbrew beer.

The wife and kids, hot rods, and microbrews - those I find very compelling.  But the San Francisco Giants?
                  [eek]
Almost a compelling endorsement, but now I must do more research.  Are there any Colorado Rockies or Denver Broncos fans out there that would also give the RO 90 such a high place in the global scheme of things?
                  [smile]

I root for the Rockies 143 games a year. If they could sign someone who can figure out how to pitch in that ballpark they'd be one of the best teams in baseball.

I like the Giants when they're not playing Colorado or Pittsburgh, which lately has been more than 143 games a year   Good luck this year.

 

[Cheese]

I say this because many people say get a do it all sander, and then say that they have 1/2 dozen or more sanders for the specialised tasks.
That is a lot of sanders.

Yes [member=40772]Holmz[/member], that's exactly why this forum is so important in presenting pertinent information and not regional preferences. My first Festool purchase was a DTS sander because it was "inexpensive", in a relative sense, and being a Milwaukee kind of guy, I wanted to try this expensive German sander which was 5X the price of the same Milwaukee product. Long story short, if I had been aware of this forum before I started to purchase some of these products, I probably would only own 4 instead of 8 Festool sanders. 

 

[aloysius]

I can see that I'm just about the only one who doesn't like the Rotex 90.

May I just ask how many of you actually HAVE either a DX 93 or a GDA 280 E yet consider the baby Rotex a better delta sander?

How many of you use SXE 400's or maybe the bigger Rotexes but still consider the baby Rotex a superior eccentric sander?  And if so, then why?

I think I must be missing something here.  One of my biggest complaints with the littl'un is the abysmal ergonomics:  it's just really hard to use in tight going like a Victorian staircase, for instance, where smaller tools just seem much more productive.  Does anybody else find the very short head "offset" allows the dustpath to just get in the way?  Does anybody else find the balance a bit off?

I'm not being critical here;  I'm just trying to understand.

 

[Holmz]

I can see that I'm just about the only one who doesn't like the Rotex 90.

May I just ask how many of you actually HAVE either a DX 93 or a GDA 280 E yet consider the baby Rotex a better delta sander?

How many of you use SXE 400's or maybe the bigger Rotexes but still consider the baby Rotex a superior eccentric sander?  And if so, then why?

I think I must be missing something here.  One of my biggest complaints with the littl'un is the abysmal ergonomics:  it's just really hard to use in tight going like a Victorian staircase, for instance, where smaller tools just seem much more productive.  Does anybody else find the very short head "offset" allows the dustpath to just get in the way?  Does anybody else find the balance a bit off?

I'm not being critical here;  I'm just trying to understand.

You are not the only one who does not like them.
I own a DX93, but I have only pawed the Rotex...

 

[Tim Brennan]

I have just one festool sander.  it's a DTS 400. I have used it very extensively to renovate a 1925 house. It's great for taking the finish off floorboards without loosing all the character. Also, I like to use it on walls when I have filled and need to sand back without making tons of dust everywhere.

I also tried to use it to take off decades of paint off the exterior windows. It's not really cut out for this task and in the end I ended up scraping with a Barco scraper which I don't recommend as it's long winded. A Rotex is much better in that scenario.

I have bought lots of different papers for this machine. Many different grits in brilliant and Ruben 2 and some crystal 40. I highly recommend the sander if you're prepared to get the right papers for it. It's great at taking finishes off as long as they're not too thick and flattening filler without creating any dust. But you definitely need a vac that has controllable suction.

Dust collection works perfectly on surfaces that are flat and large.

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[leakyroof]

I can see that I'm just about the only one who doesn't like the Rotex 90.

May I just ask how many of you actually HAVE either a DX 93 or a GDA 280 E yet consider the baby Rotex a better delta sander?

How many of you use SXE 400's or maybe the bigger Rotexes but still consider the baby Rotex a superior eccentric sander?  And if so, then why?

I think I must be missing something here.  One of my biggest complaints with the littl'un is the abysmal ergonomics:  it's just really hard to use in tight going like a Victorian staircase, for instance, where smaller tools just seem much more productive.  Does anybody else find the very short head "offset" allows the dustpath to just get in the way?  Does anybody else find the balance a bit off?

I'm not being critical here;  I'm just trying to understand.

. I owned the DX 93 a few years before getting the RO90. I still own both and will never give up the '93 since I often prefer it for Delta work over the RO90.
My only real complaint about the '90 is when in Random Orbit mode.
Too easy to overwhelm the mechanism and have the sander slow to a crawl. Tried working with the pad brake once or twice but that was a temporary fix.
I live with that underwhelming portion of the tool since the Rotex action is great for a small pad sander like the RO90 and I still have the Delta option if needed without dragging out the DX unless I need its smaller body to sneak around something

 

[BigfootBuilder]

Great choice and pick up the 6" pad at the same time, you'll use it sooner rather than later. One sander two pads...

Wait you can do that??? Holy crap I wish I'd known about this earlier!

 

[Cheese]

Wait you can do that??? Holy crap I wish I'd known about this earlier!

The 6" pad fits on the 125 machine, however the 5" pad does NOT fit on the 150 machine.