Picked one up a Sherwin Williams on Thursday. Makes a tedious job almost enjoyable. The old pole sander just got retired.
I’d say you move at least twice as fast as using the old style sander heads.
http://www.fullcircleinternational.com/index.html
It’s as good as advertised in the link.
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Rugby,
My neighbor has one. Loves it.
How will you get to inside corners?
Chuck S
Same as always. Sanding sponge and/or a screen folded at a 45 deg angle.
Or perfect my finishing skills so no sanding is needed. : )But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville
That Radius 360 is the best sander I have ever used. I ordered mine from:http://www.all-wall.com/and they offered free shipping. Unfortunately I could not find any store In the Vancouver, BC area that carries them so I picked mine up just across the border in Blaine.
I do the same you do: Sand the corners with a sponge if necessary. Luckily my mudding skills are getting better and better.
Martin
Darn it. I'm over on Vancouver Island doing some reno work and finally got tired of the sanding pad on a pole flipping over and gouging my work.( I sure don't need to add to my lousy mudding woes) I had read the article afrom Myron (drywall guy) about the round sander so I was going to start looking for it this week either in Victoria or Nanaimo but it looks like I'm not going to find it.
roger
Roger
Let me tell ya, I used it during my sons bedroom Reno and I loved it. I connected it to the best and lightest extension pole I could find and had a blast sanding the ceiling. I stood about 6 to 7 feet away from were I was sanding and didn't get any dust in my eyes. But be careful: it is very easy to over sand an area since you remove a lot of drywall compound with it.
Good luck finding one in BC. I couldn't find one in the lower mainland, nobody knew what I was talking about.Martin
If you don't get any in your eyes, how do you know if you are sanding :)
Right now I'm playing with a butt joint and I'm going to stay with this sucker even if this one joint takes me a month until I get it right (or better)!
Since moving to BC a few years ago I'm used to asking for all sorts of things and getting that look of incomprehension. I can understand some suppliers not having something or maybe not familiar with some product but when supplier after supplier (and this is usually older staff even) haven't even heard of what I'm talking about. They are not even curious to ask me more information.
If somebody tells me about a different product I want to know more. I might think it's a stupid idea but I still want to know.
roger
I've had the same experience here on the island. They aren't very curious about things they haven't seen. Its a pretty parochial place. Unlike Vancouver, where everyone seems to be from somewhere else, I meet people in Victoria all the time who have lived here their whole lives. When they look at a problem its always a "how did they do it in the '50's?" kind of approach. Not realizing that most of the people were first generation settlers trying to adapt to a new place, who generally made a hash of things. The number of times I've watched crews replace a breakwater that repeatedly washes out exactly the same way, because that's how its done. A return air ticket to Holland for some advice would pay for itself the first year.
I can't speak for the mainland but I have never seen such poorly built houses. Not that every other place was perfect but it always seems like another Kodak moment when I see how they do things here. A friend of mine who is a carpenter from New Bruinswick who now lives here say he now knows what the fishermen did when they weren't fishing.................building houses!!!!!!!!!
roger
I picked one up a few months back and love it too.
Two complaints though:
1. Without anywere for the dust to drop on such a large pad, it just gets pressed back unto the sanding surface. I'd love for there to be some way for all the dust to get out from under the pad.
2. Disks only come in a 10 pack, which is fine, but it will take me 10 years to go through a 10 pack. I would like to get a variety of grits, but I cannot justify dropping well over $100 just to get a variety of grits. I wish that they would offer a variety pack of 2 disks each of 5 different grits. I'd pay a small premium for that.
Heck, if anyone is interested in pooling together for grit variety, let me know. with just five people we can each buy one set of different grits, then snail mail disk pairs to the other four people. Anyone in?
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
The dust does build up quite a bit. Much worse when sanding overhead though. Got my face floured a couple of times when I lifted the pad off sanding the bottom of a low soffit.
The Sherwin William's in town only carries 5 packs. They cost out at a pricey $1.25 a disk not inculding tax. But not doing drywall that much a 5 pack will last a while.
http://www.all-wall.com sells 25 packs (80 to 240 grit) as cheap as $16.99 per pack but you need to order 16+ to get that price. The regular price is $19.99 which is about .68 per disk as I figure it. Free shipping if the order is over $99.00
Count me in on the disk exchange if it gets going.But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville