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This is an excellent product and may not be as fast as hand sanding or the $400+ Porter Cable, but it is dustless, and I was sanding the kitchen as my wife was cooking in it and there was no air-born dust and very little that remained on the wall and floor.Ensure you have a strong vacuum to make this product perform like it is designed to. I have used orbital sanders with vac attachments in the past, and this performs just as well, but captures the dust MUCH better.
I have a 6.5 horse Craftsman shop vac that you can buy at Sears. I tested the sander first on a smaller vacuum and it did not perform well as many people had said.
I just received my sander in the mail yesterday and put it straight to work. I pressed firmly, if not hard, on it into the wall and it only slowed down very little (read -- much harder than you would ever want to press on a sander, I was just testing its limits).
After hooking it up to the larger vacuum it was a completely different story. The thing couldn't be stopped.
The surface smooths quickly and smooths well. You will be disappointed with a weak vacuum.
The Porter Cable sander was a little steep in price , so I ordered the Loveless sander. Sometimes you just can't beat the old manual $25 sanding stick. I bought this sander about 2 years ago through Grizzly Industries. If you went to a courser grit it would only leave deep scratches on the wall. Do yourself a favor and save yourself some money. What a piece of garbage. I even tried to hold the unit in my hand without the sanding stick and it still didn't remove much material.
You can't give it away to anyone you know because you know that it will ruin their work. I was remodelling my kitchen and wanted a dustless sander. I just recently threw out the Loveless sander. First I wouldn't remove much of the drywall compound no mater what grit I used. The other problem was that the head kept flipping over and gouging out my freshly spackled wall. I had only used it once for a total of 30 minutes and put it back in the box. This product will be a big disappointment if you buy it.
I read the other reviews before buying this. It takes some getting used to and it isn't all that versatile in close quaters, lots of chatter if you move it just the wrong way. I am a general contractor with over thirty years of experience. I bought this for working on my own home; didn't expect commercial results. It doesn't have enough square inches to properly sand a seam, but then if you want that kind of machine you pay the big bucks and buy the Porter Cable. For what I paid it was worth the money, it will also sand floors which is a plus.
my Sears wet/dry vacuum works.this little anemic machine can barely suck up a paper clip and IT DOES NOT suck up sheetrock dust.No power, gimmick all the way
I was disapointed with the product. After 15 minutes of use, the orbital head slowed down. It stopped within 20 minutes and I was unable to clear the head to continue the job.
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