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Which do you prefer.
I prefer a 1/4 sheet palm sander myself as most of my needs are finish sanding. If you’re doing any rough sanding though, you’ll make a lot quicker work of it with a random orbital. I build a lot of primitive furniture and the orbital wont get into corners or tight areas.
I have had better luck with a random orbit sander for the type of woodworking I do but it all depends on your application because there has been times I could of used a palm sander
Palm sander and micro belt sander 🙂
I don’t even own a belt sander anymore
Random orbital and a belt sander is what I use for most of my work. If I have tight spaces I like using my rockwell multi tool with the sander adapter.
Dewalttoycollector wrote:
Random orbital and a belt sander is what I use for most of my work. If I have tight spaces I like using my rockwell multi tool with the sander adapter.
The sanding kits for multi-tools are super handy and surprisingly effective.
I was thinking of buying the Rockwell multi tool. How do you like it.
ChaseRogers wrote:
I was thinking of buying the Rockwell multi tool. How do you like it.
I’ve had it for about 5 years and so far so good. I have’nt had any problems with it but the blades are kinda expensive.
Dewalttoycollector wrote:
I’ve had it for about 5 years and so far so good. I have’nt had any problems with it but the blades are kinda expensive.
Is it cordless or corded?
I have tried both and they both do great work!
I have a cordless Milwaukee and a corded Porter Cable. The Milwaukee is great but the tool free blade change on the PC is awesome!
ChaseRogers wrote:
Is it cordless or corded?
It is corded. I have’nt tried the cordless but seems to me that this is a tool that you would want corded. But I might be wrong maybe having both is the way to go.
Depends. My M12 Milwaukee is sufficient in 9 of 10 cases. If you have a few batteries or your batteries are the new 4.0 packs, it would probably be sufficient in 95% of cases. Depends on what you’re using it for I suppose.
Conductor562 wrote:
Depends. My M12 Milwaukee is sufficient in 9 of 10 cases. If you have a few batteries or your batteries are the new 4.0 packs, it would probably be sufficient in 95% of cases. Depends on what you’re using it for I suppose.
Well I might have to try it. I did go with the Milwaukee mini recip so I might have to expand on the 12v.
Dewalttoycollector wrote:
Well I might have to try it. I did go with the Milwaukee mini recip so I might have to expand on the 12v.
The M12 Jig saw is probably my favorite tool in the line. It’s not good for 2X’s, but for cutouts and stiff it rocks.
The M12 Jigsaw is very nice and for sure comes in handy!
You don’t think of a 12V Jig saw being much, but it is. The design of it is spectacular and offers more control than any other Jig saw I’ve ever used.
Amen to that!
I think if I had the M12 I would be getting the bigger 3ah battery packs. 🙂
They have the 4.0ah XC packs out now.
For the 12v ?
Not to bad of a price!
crazyandy wrote:
Not to bad of a price!
I didn’t think so either
I have let my Son know about the new bigger Milwaukee battery packs he loves Milwaukee and every tool I bought him is still in service and not one of them has broken in any way. 🙂
Nothing better than milwaukee quality!
For the m12 stuff they added about 10 bucks to the price. The size increase for the M18 they kept the same price.
Joe M wrote:
For the m12 stuff they added about 10 bucks to the price. The size increase for the M18 they kept the same price.
That’s kinda odd isn’t it. Guess there’s less competition in the 12V category.
Milwaukee has the 12v in the bag
crazyandy wrote:
Milwaukee has the 12v in the bag
Very much so. No other 12V line is even close.
They do on the number of tools but not on power the Metabo stuff is in another league as far as sheer power is concerned it makes the other 12v stuff looklike toys thats just a fact. But as far as having the most tools Milwaukee are just walking away with it. 🙂
Has anyone seen the Low profile random orbital from DeWalt?
ChaseRogers wrote:
Has anyone seen the Low profile random orbital from DeWalt?
Sure haven’t
Yeah i one on ebay. It was a random orbital.
Well guys, I finally broke down and bought a Dewalt Random orbital sander for 59 at Lowes Today. Very happy with it so far and will have a video up this weekend. This has cleaned me out for a while, time to do some fundraising. 🙂
ChaseRogers wrote:
This has cleaned me out for a while, time to do some fundraising. 🙂
Story of my life
Yeah Haha i have hooked up some landscaping work on sunday, hopefully that will cover the cost.