Belt, disc, spindle & drum · review
The only random orbit sander on either half of this shelf with a price on its listing — and it publishes an orbit range.
The end of it An orbit rate, a sealed switch and two named collectors — and no orbit diameter, like everything else here.
Every figure below names its source. Each one is a manufacturer specification read off the listing itself. The judgments are ours.
Published, variable — and it is half of what characterizes a random orbit sander.
The other half is the orbit diameter, and this page does not have it. Nor does any other listing on either half of this shelf.
A 2.4 mm (0.09 in) orbit cuts fast and leaves a coarser scratch pattern. A 1.5 mm (0.06 in) orbit is slower and finishes finer. Both can run at twelve thousand.
So the most important distinction between two random orbit sanders cannot be made on this site from the makers’ own pages.
Which cancels the wobble.
An offset pad pulls the tool sideways once per revolution — twelve thousand times a minute, arriving in the hand as numbness after twenty minutes.
Every random orbit sander has a counterweight. Publishing it as a separate design is a claim about how well it is balanced, not whether it is.
The published Bosch GEX on this shelf publishes nothing at all, and its own page says why: no price, no barcode, nothing here to buy.
The part that fails on a sander.
Fine dust gets into a trigger switch and the contacts stop making. It is the commonest death of a cheap sander, and sealing it is a cheap fix nobody advertises.
Two listings on this shelf publish it. Both are American, and the other is the SKIL detail sander.
The DWV010 and the DWV012, fitting directly.
For an owner of one of them that is complete; for anybody else it is nothing, because the port diameter is not published.
The extraction-fittings shelf in this catalog is thirty pages about why the diameter is the thing that matters. A port of unstated size and two model numbers is a port a buyer has to measure.
A sanding machine is bought once and fed for years.
So the size of the belt, the disc or the sleeve it takes is a bigger decision than the motor: a common size is sold everywhere and cheaply, and an odd one ties the machine to one supplier at whatever price that supplier charges.
The published Scheppach BTS800 page on this shelf is recommended on exactly that ground — it publishes both consumable sizes, and both are the common ones — and the abrasives shelf in this catalog is where the arithmetic lands.
Read on the day this page was built: $79 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Type | Random orbit, 5 in pad — 127 mm (5 in) |
|---|---|
| Motor | 3 A · No wattage published |
| Speed | 8,000 to 12,000 orbits per minute, variable, published |
| Vibration | A separate counterweight design, stated to reduce vibration |
| Switch | Dust sealed, stated to protect against dust ingestion for longer switch life |
| Dust port | Designed to fit directly to the maker's DWV010 or DWV012 collectors — the only named collector fitment on either half of this shelf · No port diameter is published |
| Height | Shorter, stated to let the user get closer to the workpiece |
| Grip | Rubber overmould on the critical areas |
| Part number | DWE6423 |
| Amazon reference | B0858C7X3M |
| EAN | 0885911350013 |
Cancels the wobble. A random orbit sander spins an offset pad, and an offset mass pulls the tool sideways once per revolution — twelve thousand times a minute, which arrives in the hand as numbness after twenty minutes. A counterweight on the opposite side of the shaft balances it. Every random orbit sander has one; publishing it as a separate design is a claim about how well it is balanced rather than whether it exists. The published Bosch GEX on this shelf publishes nothing at all, and its page says why: no price, no barcode, nothing here to buy.
The orbit diameter. A random orbit sander is characterized by two numbers — the orbits per minute, which this publishes, and the orbit diameter, which it does not. A 2.4 mm (0.09 in) orbit cuts fast and leaves a coarser pattern; a 1.5 mm (0.06 in) orbit is slower and finishes finer. Both machines run at the same OPM. Across both halves of this shelf, not one listing publishes an orbit diameter, which means the most important distinction between random orbit sanders cannot be made on this site from the makers’ own pages.
For an owner of one of them, completely; for anybody else, not at all. The port is stated to fit the DWV010 and DWV012 directly, which means no adapter and no tape. What it does not publish is the diameter — and the extraction-fittings shelf in this catalog is thirty pages about why a diameter is the thing that matters. A sander with a port of unstated size and two named collectors is a sander a buyer has to measure.
Between woodworking machines of the same category and nearby price. Shown: what they all state. A half-filled column says nothing.
| Model | Price | Type | Motor |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEWALT DWE6423, 5 in random orbit sander | $79 | Random orbit, 5 in pad — 127 mm (5 in) | 3 A · No wattage published |
| Skil 7510-01, 3 × 18 in belt sander | $48 | Portable belt sander | 6.0 A, stated to sand any type of wood surface · No wattage and no belt speed published |
| WEN 6502T belt and disc sander | $110 | Belt and disc in one machine | 4.3 A at up to 3,600 rpm · No wattage is published |
| WEN 6321, 3 × 21 in belt sander | $39 | Portable belt sander | 7 A · No wattage published |
Finishing a surface before a finish goes on it, with a DEWALT extractor already in the shop
Amazon reports what buyers took in the month before this page was last checked: at least 3,000.
The figure is a floor, rounded by Amazon, and read through Keepa — it says what buyers picked, not what a maker claims.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
12 V · Ø 125 mm (4.92 in) · L-BOXX 136 · no price, no barcode
A bundle we cannot price, cannot verify and cannot find in any market but one — which is the whole review.
Best for: Nobody, until the listing carries a price and a barcode
Belt and disc · bench · €111
The cheapest belt-and-disc combination here, and the machine that stops you sanding curves by hand.
Best for: Sanding to a line on small parts, where hand sanding is slow and imprecise
≈ $360
100 × 610 mm (3.94 × 24 in) belt · portable · the same price everywhere
A 100 mm (3.94 in) portable belt sander with a decades-old part number, priced within €10 across the whole of Europe.
Best for: Leveling glued-up panels, doors and floors — flat work at speed
≈ $420
