Why pay $189 or $200 for a single Milwaukee? You can buy ten of these for the same money. Now on sale thru Oct 15/07 with coupon $18.88. Limit of seven per coupon. These are almost disposable. Use it on one board and then throw it in the dumpster. Break out a shiny new one for the next board.
I’ve got one that’s five years old and still goin’ strong.
Go figure.
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Why pay $189 or $200 for a single Milwaukee? You can buy ten of these for the same money. Now on sale thru Oct 15/07 with coupon $18.88. Limit of seven per coupon. These are almost disposable. Use it on one board and then throw it in the dumpster. Break out a shiny new one for the next board.
Right. Why make good quality goods when you can just buy cheap shit that ends up filling landfills. You are China’s ideal customer…keep feeding the sleeping dragon.
Mcdumb that has to be the stupidest logic I have ever heard you deserved to be banned for even thinking like that.I might be ugly but at least I ain’t got no money!!
Come on guys! My wit is wasted. I already own two each of Milwaukee and Makita, plus an ancient single speed Craftsman. If I were just getting into this boardbuilding thing as a hobby or otherwise, I’d buy one. Halcyon and others have been using them for awhile and seem to have had good luck. I’ll probably buy a couple of them just for back-up. Can’t beat the price. How’s that for logic? McDing
Ah, your just jealous cause they don’t have a Harbor Freight in Boca whatch-ma-callit.
Yah, the HF sander debate has been done and done again. However, you did say “Why…?” in your post.
From my experience there is a practical reason for avoiding the HF sander. Mine wobbled. That sucked. Since it was my first VS sander, I though I had a crooked sanding pad. I turned it over and measured the wobble which was over 1/8" of high/low. Made it really tough to be smooth with the coarser grits and the paper didn’t last near as long because I was really only using about 1/3 of it. I worked through it until the speed controller burned out and I mounted the pad on a “good” Makita. Then it ran smooth as silk. The arbour on the HF was crooked. Who would’ve thought that?
As I’ve read these HF sander threads, I don’t remember anybody else complaining about wobble and many talk about years of good service so maybe I got one of the exceptionally bad ones. If you get a good one, you grin at the great deal you scored. If you get a crappy one, well, it’s another story.
Maybe my problem was that I bought the $50 model with the lighter weight, needle bearings, and digital speed control.
So you bought the one with all the “bells and whistles”. Well I knew there were a few guys on here that used them and were satisfied with them so I thought I’d bring the ridiculously low price to their attention.