Review on 🔌 WEN 6313 Electric Sheet Sander: Powerfully Smooth Sanding Results by Tropingzz Cece

I do a lot of woodworking, especially since I retired. I'm renovating my mother's bedroom in Morganton that she bought 70 years ago. It requires a lot of sanding and very careful sanding of the veneered furniture. I mainly used an HF Bauer precision grinder. I compared it to Wen's grinder. In comparison, both performed about equally well, except that during my use, a large piece of the rubber pad on the HF grinder came loose in one of its corners. So I had to kick out the HF grinder at the end of this comparison! It went like this for a whole year. The HF Bauer Mill costs $44. To do this you can buy 2 Wen 6313 grinders which I did. I once had an HF Chicago Electric grinder that lasted a full 2 weeks. Here's what I found with the Wen grinder: Wen has a Velcro (like Velcro) surface that's permanently attached to a rubber pad. On the HF model, it was just rubber, and the non-slip surface of the 3M Pro sandpaper melted on the rubber pad during use, and when changing the paper on the HF sander, a small amount of the rubber pad tore off until the pad and thus was the grinder is no longer usable. Velcro surfaces should prevent this. But here's the problem: the distance around the base to the paperclips is a bit longer due to the thicker pad, so it's a bit difficult to get 1/3 sheet of sandpaper on this sander. The paper should be almost centered. When there is a paper jam, the front and back overlap less than 1/8 inch. The paper should be quite taut and the staples may tear at the side edges. However, on no occasion did the paper turn off while I was using it (as others have complained), and I used the sander long enough to wear down a few sheets of sandpaper Wen light, easy to use, about average noisy (but wear always wear hearing protection when using grinders etc.). The cord is the same length as the HF and both are too short compared to my Sears Craftsmen Grinder. It works well as a grinder and the price is so low it might make sense for you to buy several, so you can keep one as a backup or use all of them with a different grit. There's HF quality control - not so much $44 vs $20 - for me, Van isn't difficult to buy.