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This thing will eat the paint off a house with ease. Best tool I've found to do the job. Also found tons of other uses for it. Throw 40 grit paper on this thing and it will do amazon work on any job needing heavy sanding.
Awesome for paint removal, rough planing and more- takes some practice but once you get it you'll wonder how you ever did without it. We use 16 grit on up to about 60. Also the "velcro" backer pad with a coating removal disc works great on lighter paint removal and sanding/feathering. We own 3 of these now-
This is the least expensive, best designed tool for prep work available. Now 3M, Norton and others appear to have discontinued the product, rendering to tool useless. It's very tough, light weight so it's easy to use, and best of all it takes 5" center hole sanding disks. They are cheep, come in a very wide varity of grits and can be found at any big box store, hardware store, paint store, ect.That was true up until August of "06. 3M, Makita and others are you listning. We need out paper back.
I have used this tool for sanding down paint on houses, a job it is particularly well suited for. But for painting houses, I consider it a must-have. The features I appreciated most were:- Light weight (much lighter than a disc grinder - but it still feels well built)- Great balance (making it much easier to use one-handed than a grinder)- Durability and suitable powerOverall, this is a great tool for painters, which is why it seems to be standard issue with many pros. If I were using it for anything else (sanding or grinding fiberglass, for instance), I would personally prefer a sander that has speed control (such as the 7" sander/polishers from Makita or Milwaukee) so that I could have better control of the amount of material being removed. The only thing I have come across that could use improvement (and it is a bit nit-picky) is that the trigger lock is difficult to operate with the left hand - I am right handed, but sometimes need to use the tool with the left when up on a ladder, etc. I have also seen it cheaper than Amazon's current price ($99) at a local home superstore.
If you need to remove paint from a house, barn or old garage, buy this thing before you start. It runs at high speed and if you're using it in only one hand, it can get away from you if the disk gets wedged in a crack or caught between two boards. I only wish their orbital sanders held up this well.
Considering the amount of effort it saves (esp. I learned about the tool from a house painter who told me it was invaluable. It does an excellent job without marring the work surface.
With a coarse grit sanding disk you can quickly and easily take an old painted surface down to bare wood. over using a scraper), it's dirt cheap. It's also very durable (I've had mine 7+ years).
One warning though, be sure to use the side handle that comes with it. The bottom line is, unless you really enjoy scraping paint (in which case you're a little weird), you'll want this tool - it's a MAJOR labor saver.
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