This tool falls somewhere in between the Silent Paint Remover and RAS 115 in terms of speed. Anything more than a few layers of paint and you’ll be changing sandpaper all day long, especially if the paint is still gummy and not decades old. This thing is so powerful that we’ve even used this to refinish small areas of hardwood floors! The downside of the ROTEX 150 is that like most sanders, it bogs down when it encounters heavy paint build up. It’s not quite as clean as the ProScraper, but I didn’t have any airborne dust in the shop once I started using this big boy. The dust collection on the ROTEX 150 is very effective as well.
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This baby has a 6″ head and operates in either full rotary mode (like the RAS 115) or random-orbit mode for less aggressive sanding. The ROTEX 150 is the Mac-Daddy of rotary sanders. Craftsman Blog Rating: A+ (Retails $36.97) Buy It Here Festool ROTEX 150Īfter my experience with the Festool RAS 115 I decided to give Festool another shot. For small areas and small budgets, this is the best option. On the downside, dry scraping lots of square footage will cost you in replacement blades and be a slow and tedious process. At $34.97 it is around 1/10 the price of most of these tools. It is rare that a paint chip gets away from the vortex that this little beauty creates. If you hook it up to a HEPA vac you will have almost flawless dust collection. The best thing about this scraper on steroids is the dust collection. It comes with a replaceable 2″ carbide scraper blade and it has a hollow body that hooks up to your shop vac. The ProScraper is essentially a hardened plastic hand scraper. The ProScraper is the most low tech of all these tools and yet it performs like a champ. Craftsman Blog Rating: B+ (Retails $315) Buy It Here ProScraper I’m just waiting for Festool to improve the dust collection system. Overall, its an amazing tool and it does what it says. If you have a downdraft table in your shop, this tool has the potential to be a powerhouse once again. There is a work around that I found, which brought this tool back into use in my shop. I brought the tool back to Festool to try and see if mine was defective, but indeed it was simply bad design. I may have had more luck if I was working on a wide flat surface, but for window sashes and doors, the dust got everywhere. There isn’t an effective way to keep the dust from escaping. Festool is famous for its incredibly powerful HEPA vacs, and while mine could suck a 2×4 down the hose if it would fit, the dust collection setup for this tool is plain awful. It can be connected to Festool’s HEPA vac to make the tool a lead-safe tool, but I wasn’t impressed with the dust collection. And without a doubt, it works great! This tool is fast and powers through multiple layers of paint with no problem. I bought this tool from the uber-expensive maker, Festool, to try and speed up the stripping of historic window sashes in my shop. Craftsman Blog Rating: A- (Retails $599) Buy It Here Festool RAS 115 I’ve also found that its effectiveness is greatly reduced when you encounter severely dried out or alligatoring paint. If you’re using it indoors, make sure you provide excellent ventilation. You can get to work right out of the box and not have to worry about seriously gouging the wood. Both of which can occur when using heat guns. You’ll need a good scraper to take the paint off after the Speedheater heats it up. It’s simple to use and doesn’t have a steep learning curve. And since it keeps temperatures in the 400✯ range, it helps prevent fires and the vaporization of lead paint (which occurs at around 1100✯).
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I’ve used it to strip around 13 layers of paint from old windows in one pass! The infrared heat causes the paint to lose its bond with the wood fairly quickly. The Speedheater isn’t slowed down by multiple layers of paint. Infrared Paint removal may sound like something that is over the head of the average homeowner, but I can assure you, it is not. Caution: Remember to use lead safe work practices with any of these tools! Speedheater All of these are the biggest contenders if you are looking to do some serious paint stripping. Some work better than others, and their performance often depends on the type and condition of the paint you are removing. Here are the best paint stripping tools I have used over the years. And much of that paint is lead paint so I have to be extra careful to make sure we keep our dust under control.
Being in the business of restoring old houses, I do a lot of paint stripping.
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