Andy Hall wrote in
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:33:48 +0100, Grunff wrote:

Neal Jones wrote:

I needed a random orbital sander in a hurry. so rather than conduct
my usual lengthy, and somewhat pathetic internet research, I went to
the Shed and got Performance Power 420 watt job.

It's excellent. Really sturdy. It has the velcro style base plate
which beats the whatsit out of my old B&D effort.


Heh. When I first read about random orbit sanders, I was very
sceptical. I didn't really want to add another sander to my vast range
or crappy orbital sanders which don't really sand at all.

I was in B&Q one day, and I saw the PP random orbit sander for £18. I
thought what the heck, let's try it. Took it home, tried it, and
whaddya know - it actually worked! For the first time, a sander other
than my belt sander actually worked!! I was most pleased. I used it to
sand wood. For exactly 2 hours. Then it stopped 'random orbiting', it
just spun.

So it went right back to B&Q, and I bought at Bosch PEX400 instead.
This is a very similar tool in design. It performs in much the same
way, with the following differences:

1. It has a much, much better dust collector.
2. It vibrates a lot less.
3. It hasn't stopped working yet.

I've used the Bosch for maybe 60 hours so far. Superb.


Similar experience. I started with a B&D one and it failed in the
same way - the random orbit didn't.

I replaced it with a Metabo SXE450 and that has the same attributes of
excellent dust collection into a bag or to extraction and an ability
to set 3mm or 6mm orbits.

In terms of vibration I can do a day's work with it and have no
sensation of tingling fingers at the end.




.andy

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And does anyone have experience of the Axminster RAS125 Random Orbit
Sander?

http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp?pf_id=31298

Quite a bit cheaper than the PEX400AE (and the SXE450!) - but is it that
much worse?

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Rod

www.annalaurie.co.uk