Supposedly mine got delivered today, from Amazon.
I'm on vacation until the end of the holiday.
Don't none of you guys sneak over and take it...
I'm going to leave positive feedback, thanking the vendor for creating a situation for Amazon to fix.
Bill
The sander kit CP7200S......
FINALLY have it in my hands! After getting back in town on the holiday.
Amazon sent it UPS and UPS handed it off to USPS, which is a cheaper method of shipping. USPS didn't deliver it Tuesday, but finally did today.
A couple of things.
First, the sander as shown in the Amazon ad, is not the one you get. It is a photo of an older model with a two finger wide trigger. The updated model has a one finger width trigger and a black grip that covers the entire handle. I like the feel of this design, and have no experience with the other, older one, so I'm happy. Also the newer one has the CP logo on the side of the barrel painted black.
Now the difficult part.
NOWHERE in the instructions, is it shown how to remove the pad. Nowhere on CP's site either. There is a small black handled pin in the kit. And a hole through the handle, right behind the trigger. But that wouldn't lock the barrel and the hole is a little too small.
There is a slot in the outer barrel, but when you stick the pin in and rotate the pad, nothing happens.
So I called CP customer service, and got a salesman that could only read from their online catalog. He finally connected me to a tech girl who explained that there was a small depression in the inner barrel, that the pin fit into. While I had her on the line, I tried it. Didn't work.
I finally figured out that I had to put pressure on the pad, while rotating it, to make the inner barrel rotate, and for the hole to come into view. Then the pin inserted in the hole, locks it. Also, you will have MUCH better luck, if while pushing and rotating the pad, you also shift the pad sideways, through it's random orbit locations, while letting pressure on the pin push it into the hole. I've never had this much trouble getting a pin into a hole!
This is all just in case you have the same trouble. And I suggested that CP put something up on the website. Amazon could update their photo too.
Bill
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