Dan Friedrichs
11-20-2015, 11:22 PM
I was lamenting in another thread that I haven't been very impressed with my Festool ETS125, but thought maybe it was the Rubin paper, so I bought a box of the new "Granat" paper to try. Well, I went to peel the used piece of Rubin off, and the backing pad came with it, and I can't seem to get it back on.
It looks like there are 4 Torx screws that hold the pad to the sander. It seems like my screws are too short, though :) The threaded holes on the sander appear to be only threaded on the back half - the portion of the holes closest to the pad is not threaded (or only very light thread marks are visible).
Did I somehow....strip out the threading that holds the pad to the sander?
For reference, I've never had the pad off, before, and this sander has only had light hobby use (probably <10 hours, total).
It looks like there are 4 Torx screws that hold the pad to the sander. It seems like my screws are too short, though :) The threaded holes on the sander appear to be only threaded on the back half - the portion of the holes closest to the pad is not threaded (or only very light thread marks are visible).
Did I somehow....strip out the threading that holds the pad to the sander?
For reference, I've never had the pad off, before, and this sander has only had light hobby use (probably <10 hours, total).