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ROS pad saver

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I bought a Bosch 125mm ROS a few months ago and a small pack of mesh discs mainly for the pad saver. Have come to use them in earnest last week.
Discs are fine. Pad saver is useless!
Any suggestions?
 
Is it that Bosch starter set with the pad saver and discs? When I looked at it, the pricing was such that the pad saver was essentially free. Is the problem that the pad saver is wearing out too quickly? Or is it failing to save the pad?
 
I bought one of them about 10 years ago. I think it was the Mirka one. Is was worn out after just a few square metres of sanding. I think the problem was that, with the finer meshes, the hook are longer than the thickness of the sanding disk. I went to a woody show soon after and relayed my experience to the rep there. He sent me a replacement, FOC (I was, at that time, still Steve Maskery, Internationally Renowned Woodworking Superstar, rather than the Whatever Happened to that Fat Bloke, Whatsisname, has-been).
It didn't last any longer, so I went back to using velcro disks.
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I’m currently using a Festool 125mm ROS with one of thier pads savers (although I suspect it might be a knock off as it was cheap and not direct from them). I use a mixture of mirka and festool’s own discs and I have to say they stick to the saver like manure to a manually operated digging implement.

Don’t do masses of sanding but I’m very happy with current setup.
 
Mesh discs eat up pad savers and if you don’t use one the mesh will eat up the main pad.
For this reason I’ve given up with mesh and went back to paper backed discs, this way I don’t use a pad saver and the main pad will last a couple of years
 
I agree with Jonathan. I use exclusively Mirka discs and kit (brilliant) and my experience mirrors his. If i am stripping something though - like varnish off a table for example - I invariably use mesh and saver, as it is much faster and has no clogging.
 
Windows said:
Is it that Bosch starter set with the pad saver and discs? When I looked at it, the pricing was such that the pad saver was essentially free. Is the problem that the pad saver is wearing out too quickly? Or is it failing to save the pad?
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I thought that it would be a good starter kit.
The pad saver doesn’t seem to stick to the discs.
 
Lurker said:
I thought that it would be a good starter kit.
The pad saver doesn’t seem to stick to the discs.
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That’s annoying. I have the same set and use the pad saver with a Festool sander with no problems. Given all items you’re using are Bosch, you’d expect it to hold. You could return the pad saver and try another. Maybe it’s a faulty batch.
 
Up date.
I bought a pack of two Bosch saver pads, they look identical to the one I was complaining about, they seem to work fine.
Must have been a duff one in the first lot.
 
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