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After hooking it up to the larger vacuum it was a completely different story. 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 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.
The surface smooths quickly and smooths well. I have a 6.5 horse Craftsman shop vac that you can buy at Sears. The thing couldn't be stopped. You will be disappointed with a weak vacuum. 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).
I had only used it once for a total of 30 minutes and put it back in the box. Do yourself a favor and save yourself some money. What a piece of garbage. If you went to a courser grit it would only leave deep scratches on the wall. I just recently threw out the Loveless sander. I bought this sander about 2 years ago through Grizzly Industries.
The Porter Cable sander was a little steep in price , so I ordered the Loveless sander. First I wouldn't remove much of the drywall compound no mater what grit I used. You can't give it away to anyone you know because you know that it will ruin their work. Sometimes you just can't beat the old manual $25 sanding stick. I was remodelling my kitchen and wanted a dustless sander. The other problem was that the head kept flipping over and gouging out my freshly spackled wall.
This product will be a big disappointment if you buy it. I even tried to hold the unit in my hand without the sanding stick and it still didn't remove much material.
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. I am a general contractor with over thirty years of experience. I read the other reviews before buying this. I bought this for working on my own home; didn't expect commercial results. For what I paid it was worth the money, it will also sand floors which is a plus. 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.
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. It stopped within 20 minutes and I was unable to clear the head to continue the job. After 15 minutes of use, the orbital head slowed down.
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