Best Bosch Power Tools Orbital Sanders

Orbital sander PEX 400 AE - dust box fail – Huge dust box issues. Falls off easily. Nothing really holding it on. Heatlh hazzard. Plus, very hard to open it to remove dust, and then hard to… Read more

close it again. Major fail and for that reason, as it is a health hazzard, I do not recommend you buy it despite the sander working fine.

So far so good; it did the boat – Does a good job and seems robust. You can buy either the pre-punched sandpaper that is affixed by velcro or you can clip in the sheet having cut it… Read more

from a normal-sized sheet of sandpaper. If you can't find the template and punch to make the holes in the sandpaper, just use a screwdriver. It's easy,

Tool is fine, company is terrible – I’ve owned this sander for a number of years, and although the dust collection system isn’t great, it otherwise works as described and I’ve been… Read more

happy. At the same time as my Bosch random orbital sander, the sanding plate wore out and sanding paper no longer sticks. I had to take them both to a service provider, they’re not user-replaceable despite being held on by a couple of torque screws, where I was quoted 3 weeks without my tools *and* replacing the sanding plates would be more than the cost of a new tool. Bosch treats their tools as disposable so that’s what I’m doing - disposing of them and buying from a competitor who makes small parts available to consumers. 0/10 would not recommend Bosch.