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Random question. Does anyone else dislike their old style batteries?

Sander, good. Drill, great. Vacuum.... Umm, you'd be better off trying to suck things up yourself - it's rubbish!

Decent price..remember this is aimed at putting the odd shelf up or a bit of pre decorating sanding...not a tradesman...

Did think about getting the hand vac separately, will swerve that one.

The hand vac is rubbish and 1.5Ah batteries aren't brilliant, but still a great price for a starter kit that you can build up from. Heat added.

You can get various types of sand paper velcro backed for this sander on eBay. £4.24 for 20 cut sheets. No idea if that's good value but may be of interest. I used this sander to sand my staircase, metal railings, parts of radiators, walls, door frames but it's messy. I obviously don't know how to extract the dust. But does the job.

I must agree, I borrowed one, I burnt it out, and was only using mininium, not overdoing it ,had to buy another and never got the use. Morale, don't borrow tools.... Especially cheap ones.

I also had one of the original ones which I quickly burnt out so went and bought another one which i never got around to using. Anyone want a mint condition 15 year old version (y)

I see £20 as a standard price for this regardless of what the RRP says. Between the various retailers you don't have to wait long to pay £20. Amazon has had it at £20 for almost 2 years straight bar a few blips at around £15. Don't pay more than this.

Nearly got one of these last week when they were £18 but went with the Aldi one at £15 in the end.

Trend make very sticky ones. You can get them from toolstation

They don't make backing pads like they used to ! You can glue your own velcro onto an old backing pad.

The unbalance you speak of, is called an orbit. It varies from Sander to Sander, but generally the larger the orbit the more material it will remove in each oscillation. If it losing sheets, this will be down to the sheet brand or a worn backing pad. Swirls only occur when you haven't gone up the grits enough to "erase" the swirls to become invisible

i have one and its great, being a random orbit sander it isnt perfectly smooth to use, not sure if that is what simonspeakeasy is reffering to? :)

I have this and it's not quite up to standard. Maybe it's just mine, but the sanding head isn't perfectly balanced which means it vibrates a lot. And the sanding sheets don't stay on for as long as I would like; I suspect that the unbalanced head is responsible for this. Removes material well and leaves a smooth non-swirly finish. Good price and much better than a non-orbit model, so not voted either way.

I have this and a bigger Makita orbital sander. Both bought this year. Both are equally pants at dust containment :) Situation improves dramatically with addition of a vacuum cleaner gaffa taped o to the extraction port. The Einhell comes with an adapter if that's your thing.

The vibration from this wore down the battery contacts on my 2Ah battery to almost nothing and also caused one of the internal nickel strips to fatigue and snap. The dust collector lid doesnt click down properly on the rear so ejects most of the dust Good for light use

Orbital sander is also reduced https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B08D6W48K8/ref=sspa_mw_detail_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWw

Only doing handrail, stringer. It's ranch/plank style so large flat surfaces.

For the footfall try and lend a belt sander especially if old house (y)