In article .com,
wrote:

I say buy the HD and try it out. If you don't like it, they will take
it back and either credit your acct., credit card, or give you back
cash.

As a contractor that burns tools up, I am tired of paying 2 - 3X as
much for a tool that performs as well or maybe 10% better than a big
time name brand. I am beginning to buy today's crappy tools not
because of what they do as much as the warranty they carry to protect
their sorry product.

They have actuaries calculate all this stuff. A lot of warranties are
handled by companies that do nothing but warranties.
(They sell 10,000 sanders, 1 ends up in a solid surface shop and needs
to be replaced 3 times...so what??)

I don't believe that the PC sander is actually
THREE times better than the HD.

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That's pretty much where I'm coming from as well, Robert.
There is no doubt that the PC 504 is an incredible sander, but how good
can it be? Or.... how good does it need to be?
There's a 3-year warranty on the Ridgid R2720.

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