rdransman
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Since there's a right way and a wrong way to do nearly everything, and I have an uncanny ability to pick the latter, I thought I'd ask the following...
I bought the subject sander. The only specs I know are that it has a 5" pad, variable speed (max 12,000 RPM), 3/16" orbit. Amazon has it for only $515, including shipping:
https://www.amazon.com/Random-Orbit...=UTF8&qid=1539473581&sr=1-4&keywords=3m+28497
(Don't worry...I paid $145 on Ebay.) At max speed it really honks on. 3M does not recognize this item on their website, so it is probably obsolete, but hey, it's a sander, not a brain surgery kit. The question is: When I use it with the 3M 1/2" thick Interface pad and 3M Trizact 3000 and 5000 5" pads, wet, should I be using it at max speed or is it effective at lower speed?
(This post edited 10/19/18 because it's a continuously variable speed sander, not a 3-speed sander. Prior to this I had not used it, having only seen it run on You Tube, so I had described it incorrectly.)
I bought the subject sander. The only specs I know are that it has a 5" pad, variable speed (max 12,000 RPM), 3/16" orbit. Amazon has it for only $515, including shipping:
https://www.amazon.com/Random-Orbit...=UTF8&qid=1539473581&sr=1-4&keywords=3m+28497
(Don't worry...I paid $145 on Ebay.) At max speed it really honks on. 3M does not recognize this item on their website, so it is probably obsolete, but hey, it's a sander, not a brain surgery kit. The question is: When I use it with the 3M 1/2" thick Interface pad and 3M Trizact 3000 and 5000 5" pads, wet, should I be using it at max speed or is it effective at lower speed?
(This post edited 10/19/18 because it's a continuously variable speed sander, not a 3-speed sander. Prior to this I had not used it, having only seen it run on You Tube, so I had described it incorrectly.)
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