I bought a Festool 125 sander. I like it, but I wasn’t impressed with the sandpaper. I really like the Norton Pro Sand 5” discs because they last so long and cut so well. They have a hole pattern that supposedly works on any sander. Yeah, right.
So I made a marking template out of ¼” plywood. I used a hole punch and punched holes on the marked circles. It worked. I tried taping three discs together and punched them. It worked. The discs need to be laid on a hard wood surface and the mallet strike needs to be strong. In this case I used a scrap of ash that worked well enough. Cut-offs and drops are perfect for this use before they go in the burn bin.
Festool’s hole pattern is a 90mm circle with eight 9mm holes. That’s easy enough to lay out.
This was a make-do experiment that I will probably use a great deal in the future.
So I made a marking template out of ¼” plywood. I used a hole punch and punched holes on the marked circles. It worked. I tried taping three discs together and punched them. It worked. The discs need to be laid on a hard wood surface and the mallet strike needs to be strong. In this case I used a scrap of ash that worked well enough. Cut-offs and drops are perfect for this use before they go in the burn bin.
Festool’s hole pattern is a 90mm circle with eight 9mm holes. That’s easy enough to lay out.
This was a make-do experiment that I will probably use a great deal in the future.