It would help to look in the cabinets before buying tools

[junkyardjeff]

For the last 25 years I had been using what I recently found out was a finishing D/A for all my sanding and grinding and when I started on my 66 F250 it would not cut it so I went to the body shop accross the street from work and they showed me a D/A that could be used for both so I got looking and found out I had one that I bought off a co worker years ago when he needed drug money. It was not the greatest so I bought a cheap on from harbor freight and it was not much better then the first one so I got by with it for the past year or so,I got looking in the cabinets and found my dads old D/A so I oiled it up and changed the pad and it works alot better then the cheap one. Its a Rodac and is probably over 40 years old and I hope it will not **** out from sitting over 25 years as its the one I will be using now,the last time it was used was when you still had to glue the sanding discs on so its been sitting around for many years.

 

[trbomax]

Rodac is a good unit. Ive got about 6 of them from the seventies on up,never did have one **** out and we were sanding/grinding fiberglass with them.

 

[John in OH]

What does "D/A" stand for?

 

[Packard V8]

Double Action - it rotates and orbits.

jack vines

 

[John in OH]

Thanks, Jack! That makes sense .... I'm not a body or paint guy so I wasn't familiar with that term.

 

[junkyardjeff]

Anybody know if rodac is still in buisness as I have a body file that needs parts.

 

[Professur]

There's a cheap tool shop local to me that carries that brand name. dunno if it's any relation, tho ... almost all the tools they carry are chinese ... a la HF.