The Vlies scouring pads shown in use
with the RAS 115 to the right are espe-
cially useful for this as they tend to dissi-
pate the heat better than regular abrasive
sheets do and leave far fewer deep
scratch marks than coarse abrasive
sheets will.
In this photo I am cleaning the floor of my
finish room which, as you might imagine,
gets quite gunked up from time to time.
The RAS 115 with Vlies scouring pads is
just the ticket.
The small (115mm) diameter pad helps
get into nooks and crannies that larger
grinder style units cannot such as under
the toe kick on the cabinets that are pre-
sent in my finish room.
My suggestion is to practice a bit with this
machine before starting in on an impor-
tant work piece. Use a slower speed and
a lighter touch until you get the feel of
how aggressive it is with a given abrasive
material. Once you develop a feel for it,
you will find it in your hands often.
Dust extraction, while very good, is not as
complete as with the other Festool sand-
ers which employ the nine hole system
we discussed earlier where air is drawn
through the center hole and out through
the eight outer holes and into the at-
tached dust collector. As mentioned
above, the RAS 115 instead uses a
space between the sanding material and
the body of the unit to draw the sanding
grit out through the vacuum port. The
brushes that can be rotated around the
outside perimeter of this space are what
help to direct the sanding grit into the
vacuum port.
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