OK, everyone knows I'm the wires and sparks guy, so no need pay much attention to a topic from me on woodworking tools- though I do get religious about my SawStop table saw....
This is a follow up, on what amounts to a rather delayed realization of a high grade sanding solution with absolutely minimal noise and dust- documented partially in the Saint-Saëns planar thread.
In November 2016, I ordered a FESTOOL Pro 5 Ltd sander, 125mm random orbital sander with 3 mm orbit. Due to overwhelming demand at the low introductory price, they ran out of stock, Checking back, it wasn't shipped until 2018. Hey, better late than never, right? But a lot of stuff going on a work, plus Beverly's passing due to pancreatic cancer, etc. So never followed up on that.
Well, Steve, being the exemplary woodworking maven I can never hope to match, at least seeing stuff in the periphery of photographs in his shop, I realized that getting a matching dust collector with equivalent functionality might be a worthwhile option to consider, if the price wasn't too dear.
Enter stage left, the FESTOOL CT 15 collector, with remote activation, and hose couplers with very low leakage, totally compatible with my now ancient Pro 5 Ltd. This is NOT an Influencer Ad for FESTOOL, just ongoing personal experience.
Of course, that's just a picture from the ad in Amazon for the CT15 from the Hartsville Hardware order.
Besides what looks like a very high quality air hose, the feature of interest to me is that there is an AC outlet you can plug the sander into, and this triggers the on and off function of the vac. Handy...
And since this is the Internet, and nothing is real without pictures (and these days with AI, thats even sketchy!), here we are, ready for the next Sanding steps on the Saint-Saëns cabinets. Extra disks that were ordered also arrived.
Hmm, 2016 to 2026... maybe I should rename the post... done!
This is a follow up, on what amounts to a rather delayed realization of a high grade sanding solution with absolutely minimal noise and dust- documented partially in the Saint-Saëns planar thread.
In November 2016, I ordered a FESTOOL Pro 5 Ltd sander, 125mm random orbital sander with 3 mm orbit. Due to overwhelming demand at the low introductory price, they ran out of stock, Checking back, it wasn't shipped until 2018. Hey, better late than never, right? But a lot of stuff going on a work, plus Beverly's passing due to pancreatic cancer, etc. So never followed up on that.
Well, Steve, being the exemplary woodworking maven I can never hope to match, at least seeing stuff in the periphery of photographs in his shop, I realized that getting a matching dust collector with equivalent functionality might be a worthwhile option to consider, if the price wasn't too dear.
Enter stage left, the FESTOOL CT 15 collector, with remote activation, and hose couplers with very low leakage, totally compatible with my now ancient Pro 5 Ltd. This is NOT an Influencer Ad for FESTOOL, just ongoing personal experience.
Of course, that's just a picture from the ad in Amazon for the CT15 from the Hartsville Hardware order.
Besides what looks like a very high quality air hose, the feature of interest to me is that there is an AC outlet you can plug the sander into, and this triggers the on and off function of the vac. Handy...
And since this is the Internet, and nothing is real without pictures (and these days with AI, thats even sketchy!), here we are, ready for the next Sanding steps on the Saint-Saëns cabinets. Extra disks that were ordered also arrived.
Hmm, 2016 to 2026... maybe I should rename the post... done!
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