 Here's Paul Krossen here, small workshop guy. Today I'm going to show you how I avoid the drudgery and the danger of sanding in my small workshop. I do that by using a Festool R090 and a Festool ETS 125 in combination with the dust extraction system. This is called a CT Mini-1. And it has a HEPA filter in it. I'm finishing up a bed build, a twin bed for my grandson who stays with us. And I'm using all red oak and I've gotten down to the part before I assemble it of sanding all the different components. Let's talk about this Festool R090. 90 refers to the 90 millimeter diameter disc on there as opposed to a ETS 125 because that's 125 millimeter, about three inches to five inches. This has several modes on it. It's got a Rotex mode. So you turn the dial to one of three positions. So this left-hand position is the Rotex mode. What that does is that drives that disc in a hard circle. In other words, you can almost stop it. It's not a random orbital thing where you go lightly. It's really more like a belt sander. And so I've got an 80 grid on here and we're going to demo using that in kind of that Rotex mode. Then it's got another random orbital sanding or eccentric mode on it. And this has a three millimeter stroke on it and it's great for that. And then it's also got the ability to put a triangular Delta sanding pad on it to get into corners and stuff. And when you put it in that mode, then it doesn't rotate obviously. You don't want that triangle rotating so it's just more oscillating. The major advantage and one of the primary reasons why I like this setup is because of the dust extraction. This is a really good system for extracting that dust as it's created, whereas this does some of that but not nearly as well. And you'll see that when I turn it on. So let's do this, let's do a little test. We're going to use the Rotex mode here. I'm going to just send off a piece of this. I'm going to put some marks on here. Pretty heavy to see getting it off and then this will be where we'll do the DeWalt. And again, this is the battery operated. You can get some differences depending on what model of which brand you bought. So let's kind of time it with the DeWalt first and to remove all these pencil marks. Timer, stopwatch, start. So here we go. Troop me to get this using 80 grit. So now I'm going to use this device. The advantage of this is you can plug into it with the device and then when you turn on the sander it will turn on the vacuum. When you turn off the sander, it will turn off the vacuum. If you're using a shop vac unless you have a special circuit of some sort you'll have that running the whole time which is kind of bothersome. All right, so I'm going to put this in Rotex mode and I've got an 80 grit pad on there to be fair compared with the other one. And this one's kind of like riding a horse, a wild mustang. So you place it on there and then you turn on the switch and you kind of holding it down. It's probably best to hold underneath the hose to kind of keep this pad level. You don't want it up, you don't want it down. It'll really run away from you. So here we go. This mode is for coarse sanding. So routine, I'll put a 60 grit disc on here and use the Rotex mode and clean it up the first coarse sanding. And then if it's a smaller piece I'll stick with this device and I'll just change the disc to 80, 120, 180. And then depending on what I'm doing maybe 220, 320 and on up. This is also a polishing device by the way. But if it's not a smaller piece where this is covering the whole piece then I'll switch to my ETS 125 in order to cover more surface. Also this one is easier to handle and just better balanced and I really like it for that purpose. And all I do here in order to keep it all going is I just switch the electrical and switch the vacuum from here to here. And that's really easy to do. But anyway, that's the way to do my sanding so that it's safe, great HEPA filter, terrific system that turns on and turns off. I don't have to listen to the noise and it's all kind of enjoyable. I hope you, this video helps you understand these devices a little bit better. It was intended to be a full blown review. Plenty of those on. These have been out for quite some time. Why am I showing it? Well because my three or four subscribers are beginners probably and they may not have seen these yet. There was a lot of videos created when they first came out but those were a long time ago so probably haven't seen them. Anyway, if you like my videos subscribe to my channel. Give me a like, give me a comment. Stay safe in your workshop. Small workshop guy, signing off.