When cordless office shaft started getting honorable , back around 2006 , manufacturer always said a cordless random - orbital smoother was out of the motion . Too much uninterrupted power draw , they say . The batteries could n’t do by it . The closest you could come to a 5 - in tool — the case pro woodworkers and jobsite carpenter use every twenty-four hour period — were these puny little contingent sanders that ’d be dead before you could scuff up a door stile . Well , Makitafinally calculate it out .
The mystery , concord to Makita ’s Wayne Hart : “ This was not a retro - fit job on an survive twilled or cordless tool to accommodate an 18V battery . ” alternatively , the engineers ramp up the motor and other component around the existing 18V Lithium - Ion battery , optimizing power and runtime for a cordless program the company has used for years .
The ruined Cartesian product is a 3.6 - pound cock that will run 20 minutes on the high speed setting ( or 40 proceedings on the low setting , which nobody uses much ) . So , sure , it ’s not perfect . But that ’s plenitude of power if all you ’re doing is climbing a ravel to smooth out the putty on a patched soffit to develop it for a coating of paint .
The ideal client for this sander already owns tools in Makita ’s 18 - volt lineup — the $ 143 cost for the mere tool ( atToolsUp , not in store yet ) is a far better trade than the kit with two batteries and a charger , for$286 at Amazon . Even so , this is a lot pricier than Makita ’s AC - powered sander , the BO5031 . If you ’re not quick for this wave - of - the - succeeding cordless business , that$85 productis a fine surrogate — a 4 - headliner role model as review under the rigorous examination ofPopular Mechanics ’ Roy Berendsohn .
Underpowered and overpriced ? Maybe . But either agency , a major breakthrough in the earth of sanding . Such an elusive , coveted power tool could never amount cheap . [ Makita ]
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