All in all, there’s really nothing “wrong” with square-based, orbital finishing sanders. They “vibrate” the sandpaper in thousands of little orbits. They’re easy to control and they’re inexpensive to ...

Maintaining your wooden furniture via staining can lead to some unfortunate and pesky swirl marks. Here are some things you ...

Orbital sanders use peel-and-stick sandpaper that comes precut or that you cut to fit, or you attach an abrasive sheet to the tool with the clamps on the sander’s sides. The quarter-sheet sander ...

Power sanders smooth wood, sure. But they can do more, like remove loose paint, take the sharp edge off a piece of metal, and ...

This will allow the use of the sander in fine applications ... which application can require some work. Q. Is a palm sander or an orbital sander better? A random orbit sander is regarded as ...

In order to get his guitars to come out the best they can, he needed a thickness sander. For those who don’t know, thickness sander is a machine that will sand off a small amount of material ...

[Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an original re-use for old hard drives: make em into power tools. The tiny servo motor that drives the spindle doesn’t generate much torque, but once the drive is ...

There is also a much smaller risk of leaving swirl marks than the orbital or belt sander does. You can also cover larger surface areas because your sanding time is sped up. It also means you could use ...

Drum sanders and sleeve sanders are designed to drive an expanding drum that accepts abrasive sleeves. Orbital sanders and planetary sanders use an orbital or planetary motion during grinding or ...