great tool
I had two quotes to paint my 3000 sq. ft. ranch house: $5000 and $6000. The main reason was a the labor involved in scraping and sanding and the thirty windows. The house was in bad shape.
Not one to easily depart with 5 grand I decided to paint the thing myself. This was the first tool I bought and I have to say it has payed for itself ten times over. It took an entire week of sanding with the machine and unlike others it performed flawlessly. I went through three disks so you may want to pick up a disk or two depending on how big your project is.
I removed the gray plastic shield surrounding the disk. Simply squeeze it and it pops right off. The reason was I couldn't get the machine close enough to those tight spots and it was blocking my view. Plus I was wearing safety goggles and a respirator (a must have unless you like lung cancer very fine dust particles) so flying chips weren't a problem.
You can use the machine to feather edge every single paint chip and pock mark as if your restoring an 18th century piece of furniture or just run it along and quickly knock down the chips. Depends on how much time you have. I found that in places where people will be notice like near the patio it worked well to spend extra time to get a nice smooth surface. Other places I just quickly moved it along and in some really tucked away spots I just used a scraper but it simply doesn't do as nice a job.
As far as durability if you apply a lot of pressure you can definitely hear the motor bog down. As an electrical engineer I can assure you that running a motor at full load to point of where it almost stalls will severly shorten the lifespan. I had good results just applying very little pressure and letting the machine do the work.
Overall if your tackling a big job I'd definitely give it a try.More detail ...
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