I just got my first Festool it's the ETS 125 EQ. What a nice sander, light, very low vibration and great ergonomics. I want to attach the dust outlet to my Fein shop vac. I'll need an adapter of some kind. Any one already solve this problem?
I tried a stepped adaptor. Waste of money. It lacked the ridges inside
and out that the Bosch hose has that locks it to a Festool. Adaptor
would fall off in use. If you want something you have to use duct
tape to keep it in place, get an adaptor. Otherwise, get a Bosch hose.
WOW! Great solution. I got the Bosh hose today. Fits perfectly both ends and has a larger diameter hose to boot. Great advice guys. Thank you very much.
I would be careful hooking that sander up to a shop vac. The only reason is because you can't control the suction on a shop vac. The suction for the ETS 125 needs to be set very low otherwise the sander will "dance" around. The dust bag that comes with the ETS 125 works pretty well and would consider using that instead of a shop vac.
Thanks James, My Fein has two speeds I'll try it on low this weekend. I did use it a bit with the bag and it seemed to work very well. I just don't want to keep buying Festool bags.
Find a way to put an air hole in the suction path, like some
vacs have on the handpiece. The hole can drop the suction
a lot.
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