I'm connecting the sander with the special 35 mm hose to a shop vacuum and the sander seems to jump around or chatter . Is it possible to have too big a vacuum?
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Not sure. Mine was jumping with 220 on polyurethane 6 hr dry for less than a minute then smoothed out with festool vac at half speed and 27 mm hose. The festool rts400 eq jumps a lot on poly without foam backing. After initial break in of grit with material and some dust it is smooth sailing. To much suction on festool can feel like its glued down but it doesn't jump and Bosch works fine on my 2 1/2 inch hose craftsman vac that has no speed control.
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If you are using a regular shop vacuum, you have too much suction. It's best to use a vac with adjustable power (Bosch, festool, fein, et al) and turn it all the way down. Barring that, you could try drilling holes in the tool end of vac hose until the suction is gentler.
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Perhaps not under continuous use but it recovers fast. The sander would likely be a bigger load. Its been a good machine.
562135
Not well, let me explain . The sander is a compressed air eater. Once your compressor is fully charged it will run the sander , but it will start slowing down quickly because a compressor of that size can not keep up with the sanders demand. Now if you want to stop and start your sanding project stopping so that the compressor can play catch up it will work .
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I use a Jet DC-650M, a relatively small dust collector, with a cyclone pre-stage through a 4 inch plastic hose. I never have "dust" shooting out the front. I see lots of small "shreds" flowing up the hose. Remote possibility: is the shop vac blowing instead of sucking?
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I haven't had this problem with this particular item. However, while using a different sander I did repeatedly experience the sandpaper not sticking. What I discovered is that the saw dust gets between the sandpaper and the base that the sandpaper adheres to. I found that hooking the sander up to my shop vac helped to reduce or alleviate this problem, but that isn't possible with this tool so my only recommendation is to vac the base off before attaching a new sanding paper. Make sure that you are using the hook & loop sanding papers. I found them at MultiFitBlades.com.
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I am no expert, but mine works perfectly. I never has an issue with it. Try going to your local hardware store and see if you can find the one you purchased. Product number, or the UPC from the box will help you be certain you are checking the proper sander. Maybe the dust trap is broken?
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The 1-1/4" hose that comes with the sander is 14 feet long and I attached it to the 6 ft hose from my 1-1/4" shop vac.
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ok you got two possibility's hear # 1 you got a bad motor and yes iv heard of this happening because the sander's are not made in the USA \ # 2 you have got the adjustment tension for the belt wayyyy to tight with the sanding belt on so it put's wicked strain on the motor # 3 you may want to try a heaver belt grit
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Sorry but you'll need a 36 gallon tank with a sufficient compressor to boot to run an air sander like this. The small Porter Cable compressor is good for about 10-15 seconds the first time you pull trigger and decreases to almost nothing within a minute or two. Don't fell bad I made the same assumption and mistake
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My sander came with a small flexible rubber adaptor that I've jamed on fein vacs shop vac and festool vac. A zip tie or two I was in business. I would say if the dia is around 1.5 inches it should fit with the supplied flexible adaptor.
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it uses muscle. you fill the bucket with water to the line. hook the large round end to your shop vac and the small end to the manual sander head. turn on the shop vac and start sanding. when I use mine I get a little dust that falls to the ground but the fine dust gets sucked into the bucket rather than the air.
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When attached to your shop vacuum, it requires an adapter up to the size of your nozzle. Did on mine anyway, I just jerry-rigged something with duct tape, worked great anyway. Very little dust, just noisy with both the sander and vac going is all. The whole thing makes drywall sanding a matter of seconds and minutes versus hours. Truly amazing.
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The vacuum port on the sander is pretty small but the sander comes with a tube that you can put onto the vacuum port that makes it larger. I'm not with the unit at them moment but I'd estimate it at 1-1/2 inch. If that doesn't work, home depot sells an adaptor for Ridgid shop vacs that can fit multiple different sizes of ports and hoses.
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No! It is just a dust collector. You will need some flex hose and hose clamps to connect it to your tools. You should be able to connect to your sander without any reducers.
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There's a small black plastic connector which connects to the square outlet at the back of the sander that mates to this hose. It is available at Amazon; check on the page of your sander model for it. That's where I found mine.
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If you had a way to hold it. This sander is a pos and I don't recommend buying it. I trashed mine and bought a old sander at a yard sale.
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No get the size you can grown into. I have had mine for about a year or so Best Vacuum I ever had. We have Festool Sanders, Jig saw, Track saw, Router, Domino joiner. We do mostly wood working but I used this at my house sanding drywall, and this thing just keep on sucking. you won't of even knew that I used an electric sand there was no dust that could be seen. The guys fight for it in the shop. Good Luck