Kevin Murdock
09-11-2006, 3:03 PM
All,
I've been looking at the 3 (are there others?) different models of 6" dual mode sanders common to the US marketplace:
- Festool
- Bosch
- Metabo/Ridgid
And I'm having a hard time coming up with how each defines "dual mode".
Looking online, I've found that the Metabo defines it as 1/8" stroke vs 1/4" stroke. The Festool site mentions that it has has a 5mm stroke for one of the settings, is the other a locked no-stroke or 3mm? And for the Bosch, I didn't find anything but for the vague "Turbo Mode for aggressive, fast stock removal, random orbit mode for fine swirl-free sanding"
Without getting into the other points of comparison between these three, I was wondering if anyone knew what the Bosch stoke is for both modes, and what Festool does for stoke in the stock removal mode.
Thanks,
/Kevin
I've been looking at the 3 (are there others?) different models of 6" dual mode sanders common to the US marketplace:
- Festool
- Bosch
- Metabo/Ridgid
And I'm having a hard time coming up with how each defines "dual mode".
Looking online, I've found that the Metabo defines it as 1/8" stroke vs 1/4" stroke. The Festool site mentions that it has has a 5mm stroke for one of the settings, is the other a locked no-stroke or 3mm? And for the Bosch, I didn't find anything but for the vague "Turbo Mode for aggressive, fast stock removal, random orbit mode for fine swirl-free sanding"
Without getting into the other points of comparison between these three, I was wondering if anyone knew what the Bosch stoke is for both modes, and what Festool does for stoke in the stock removal mode.
Thanks,
/Kevin