Posted by Glenn Ragle on March 01, 1999 at 18:50:23:
In Reply to: Re: Sanders? posted by Bill Stevenson on February 24, 1999 at 17:30:08:
: : I have a Porter Cable 1/4 sheet pat sander and I love it. No dust pick up and due to that it does throw a bit of dust. I have tried the random orbit sanders and found that when you get to an edge the get a little tough to control, not so with the pad(vibrating) sanders. Good luck.
I have found that the random orbital sanders are alot more powerful. They especially work good for sanding curved surfaces. You can change pads relatively easy from soft to hard depending on what your doing. Since I have purchased a random orbital I have not used my sheet sanders since approximately 5 yrs. now.