I  have one Festool tool.  It's a ETS 150/3 sander that I got a great deal on when they first came out.   I use it in conjunction with the Bosch ROS that I had before.   Yesterday, the pad fell apart.  This is the second time I've had to replace the pad.  If I have to do it again, it will be about as much as it cost me to begin with.

 

 

 

Henry Ford said, "Besides the Model T itself another revolutionary element which the Ford Motor Company introduced twenty years ago was the idea of service. Some of the early manufacturers proceeded on the theory that once they had induced a man to buy a car they had him at their mercy; they charged him the highest possible price for necessary replacements. Our company adopted the opposite theory. We believed that when a man bought one of our cars we should keep it running for him as long as we could & at the lowest upkeep cost. That was the origin of Ford Service."

IIRC, the old Schick razor philosophy was "give a man a razor, sell him blades for a lifetime."

if you don't use it, it'll last longer!

 

(you probably should ignore advice you didn't pay for)

I had bought one of those when they were introduced. I wasn't thrilled with having to have discs with a different hole pattern so all I did was plug it in to make sure it ran, then put it away. About a month later I sold it for what i paid,

On 4/1/2025 at 3:35 AM, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I had bought one of those when they were introduced. I wasn't thrilled with having to have discs with a different hole pattern so all I did was plug it in to make sure it ran, then put it away. About a month later I sold it for what i paid,

Yeah, that is exactly why I never bought one of their sanders.