81 Re: Porter Cable sander
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This article is from the Woodworking FAQ Collection 5, by multiple authors.
81 Re: Porter Cable sander
From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Date: 9 May 90 23:24:48 GMT
In article <24134@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mclean@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Stuart Mclean) writes:
|I've been planning on buying a belt sander this summer, and am wondering
|if your recommendations would go so far as to endorse the Porter-Cable
|instead of a belt sander for most applications? Most of the woodworking
I've never used a belt sander but it seems like it would be easy to
make a mess with one. The PC is fast enough that I could see doing
cabinet doors and bookshelves with it. And it's a random orbital motion
which leaves a nice looking surface without any extra effort. One
drawback is that there is no concept of a dust bag as far as I can tell.
Another consideration is that it's a lot harder to turn it upside
down and clamp it to your table for stationary sanding. I don't know
what kind of results you'd get if you did manage to clamp it down.
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