Larry Jaques wrote:

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:33:14 -0600, Duane Bozarth
calmly ranted:

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OTOH, my wife uses hers a lot for the refinishing she does and likes it
well...
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You must be rich, Duane. Media cost for those things has to be
$50/day, minimum. Have you seen the new Searz circular thingy?
It has a pair (or 3?) of 3/4" washer-sized sanding discs on it.
I can't imagine how long they'd last while sanding, but I'll bet
you a dollar to a donut that it's sub-1-minute. g

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Haven't seen it, no...we only have a small catalog store here which is
mostly appliances, etc., so don't see most of that kind of
thingy...thank goodness!

Re media cost for the detail sander, I'm not really sure...shouldn't
make it sound as though she's a full-time pro, particularly since we're
now back on the farm she's busy enough w/ other stuff. She did resell
stuff w/ a couple of friends in TN in a small shop and was pretty
regular w/ it at the time...but, that was her thing so I never actually
bought any media for it myself...

I did use it while painting the house to get into the corners of some
window sills where I had to do some repair/patching on...w/ the coarsest
pad she had it took the epoxy filler down to a paintable surface fairly
quickly w/ less effort than I was expending by hand although still had
to finish the very corners w/ the sharp chisel trick...

It's not indispensible nor wonderful, but does have some specialized
uses imo...