Thread: Which ROS? (Smoothness vs Reliability)

Originally Posted by strangerep

Thank you to everyone who replied!
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I also bought a small Hitachi 125mm as a spare since it got
good reviews. Seems fine so far, touch wood.

Cheers.

I've been using METABO FSX-200 (125mm ROS) for quite sometime now, ... they're about the same price as the Hitachi counterpart, .
BUT, imho, the FSX-200 is smoother and ALWAYS give me excellent result. The vibration is not an issue btw.

Its hard to find a good service agent,that particular one in Willoughby my old next door neighbour when I lived there, took a small Elu router to him to have the bearing replaced,he put the armature it in a vice and knocked the bearing off,he is a butcher,completely ruined his router which he used in his business for years and years you could still see the vice jaw marks on the armature when he returned it to him.He ended up throwing a brick through his window one quiet, dark night,he was that upset about it.Look further.

Hi All,
This ROS, is that a Rottweiler Of Some-sort. Why would you want to take a Rotty to Metabo Service Centre.
Beats the Heck out of Me, or maybe it means something entirely different.
Could you please put that ROS into English.
Regards,
issatree.
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Random Orbital Sander.

Thank youCliff,
These abbreviations get away from some oldies, like me .
Regards,
issatree .
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and in the USA they are known as DA sanders (dual action).

I'm surprised this thread's still alive, but thank you to
everyone who made suggestions.

The final score: the repair guy at Willoughby eventually
looked at my Metabo (took many weeks - I guess they're
very busy). He cleaned it out, and the result is certainly an
improvement, but still not the original silky smoothness.
He mentioned the possibility of replacing a bearing,
(Soundman-> I'm guessing that's what you were referring
to - thanks for the info) but said it wouldn't be cheap. So I
decided not to replace the bearing, at least not right now.

Anyway, it ended up costing $94 for the service and a new
dust bag (I'd managed to damage the original bag due
to my clumsiness). This was just expensive enough to make
me annoyed about the whole exercise, but I guess I've
learned something thereby.

I think I'll stick to the little Hitachi which seems perfectly
adequate for the modest tasks I ask it to do. Oh, and also
that old principle of using a "high quality abrasive" on a
"medium quality tool" has proven true.

Thanks again to all.