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Review on Micro Power Sander - Micro Mark 81266 by Stephen Johnson

Revainrating 2 out of 5

So weak, so slow, so not for me.

So it is not clear what exactly this is supposed to be used for. I thought I had the easiest job for a grinder. I only need one tool to sand down my plastic prints, which I use dental floss soaked in wood. Boy was I wrong. When I moved the instrument from side to side, head movements became useless. So all you can do is rub it up and down or draw circles. The paper is blank but I used the heaviest grit and erased it in the same project. I resorted to giving my parts a head start and used regular sandpaper and a pencil to smooth out what was left just to speed things up and it still took forever. Went through 3 pads of sandpaper. You can grab it with your fingers and prevent it from swinging. The same goes for too much pressure. That means you have to find a balance between lightly touching the surface and pushing hard to get the tool to stop, and usually that means your head isn't straight and the damn thing is just rattling against the part I'm grinding. From the tools to the cheap plastic tool heads, everything is plastic. So get ready to buy or print your own tool heads for this thing. A complete garbage. If it was $40 I'd leave it as a cheap tool for quick patching up of prints with resin. But there's no way I'm keeping this at $80. I'm returning it and decided to just buy the legal $160 version of this tool with metal heads and no sharpening attachments. TLDR: I've bought more powerful electric toothbrushes than this thing. fewer.

Pros
  • random orbital sander
Cons
  • high price