Orbital sander

[Dan Adamson]

Hi all, I’m looking at purchasing a new orbital sander to replace my cheap Aldi middle isle sander and il looking for some recommendations please, here’s my thought process on the subject so far.

Recently I’ve became a bit of a Bosch Professional (BP) fanboy and I like the look of the BP GEX-34-150 but I think the price is high for what it is and it may be a bit big & heavy for most of what I’d be using it for. So then I recently bought one of the BP 12v multi head drill/drivers and I was really impressed with the quality and power so that lead me to look at the BP GEX 12V-125 as it uses the same battery system but I’m a little concerned about the run time and lack of power it may have. Then there’s also the fact of I’m probably 99% of the time going to have it tethered to the extraction unit so not really sure I would see the benefit of having a cordless sander.

I have Milwaukee drill and impact drivers so also looked at the Milwaukee M18-BOS125 with having that battery system also, but the above put me off of having it tethered to the extraction unit.

Oh I also have a couple of Ryobi tools so their orbital sander is a possibility also?

I’m stuck at the moment don’t know what to do so any advice would be helpful.

Thanks Dan

 

[Spectric]

With these tools where you want consistant power and are connecting an extraction hose then little point in cordless. I have a 110 volt Bosch GEX 125-150 which is great for what I want it for and it has never missed a beat, also not too much vibration unlike some.