3m v Mirka Deros Sander

[chromekilla]

Looking at purchasing a quality sander. Anyone use either or both of these?

Low vibration is my biggest goal.

 

[moparfreak]

I have the Mirka Deros 5" and it's been an amazing workhorse. Really a dream to use. In my opinion, it's a must to pair it with a tool-activated shopvac, the one I use is a Flex brand, it's pretty much dust free when you use it like that. So, between the $500 sander and another $300 for the vac it's not a cheap setup, but it is a dream to use. But if you're into the WW hobby deep, it pays off and will never go back to a cheap $80 RO sander ever again.

I don't have any experience on the 3M, so can't comment on that one. I've seen a lot of good reviews on the SurfPrep sander as well, which is also in the same type/class of tool.

Adam

 

[mobiledynamics]

I held onto my Deros sander for quite some time past the recall as just liked the smaller footprint of it. I did eventually end up calling Mirka and they swapped it out with the Ceros. Haven't put much mileage on it yet to A/B things

 

[purplezr2]

I have the Mirka Deros 5" and it's been an amazing workhorse. Really a dream to use. In my opinion, it's a must to pair it with a tool-activated shopvac, the one I use is a Flex brand, it's pretty much dust free when you use it like that. So, between the $500 sander and another $300 for the vac it's not a cheap setup, but it is a dream to use. But if you're into the WW hobby deep, it pays off and will never go back to a cheap $80 RO sander ever again.

I don't have any experience on the 3M, so can't comment on that one. I've seen a lot of good reviews on the SurfPrep sander as well, which is also in the same type/class of tool.

Adam

Have the same setup. I have a pretty decent wood/dust allergy, this combo really helps with that.

 

[dnschmidt]

Most of these are produced by AirVantage at least 3M's were prior to their teaming up with Festool. The Surfprep ones are without a doubt AirVantage and I think the original Mirka were AirVantage as well although they may have moved on to their own design. Of the two styles that AirVantage makes I prefer the one with the separate power supply vs. the all in one as the balance is much better and almost identical to a Dynabrade traditional air sander.

 

[mobiledynamics]

Just google AirVatage s the seperate power supply was the main draw for me....

Random Orbital Sanders – Airvantage Tools

www.airvantagetools.com

Due to the recall, etc Mirka stopped the Cero's it's entirety and replaced mine with the -Dero's-.
That's was the main reason why I held off submitting mine on the recall

 

[moparfreak]

The other nice thing is the Mirka comes in a T-stak case, and the Flex vac has an adapter plate to mount it. This setup is a few hundred cheaper than the festool stuff. I'll probably build a stand for the sander itself, but it's nice and mobile around the shop. I even brought this out to my deck when I was doing a strip and refinish and it worked great.



Adam

 

[chromekilla]

I had no idea about Airvantage, that looks like the ticket.

Thanks.

 

[tarbellb]

Is AirVantage still selling the remote power supply option? Looked at the website, dident look promising.