Living The Dream
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My local hardware store is selling all their rental equipment, so I snatched this up. Someone already purchased the edger, so I'm on the hunt for one of those.
Wood Floor Band Wagon
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Mikey P
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Dolly Llama
Number 5
more like waves if not used right.
a drum sander is aggressive w/12 and 36 grit and can dig troughs if not careful
(commonly at beginning or end of pulls)
Have you done any refinish floors before, Nick?
if your first go'round...
you'll need a finish sander too.
You can use a rotary and screens (I think a square scrub w/vac port is best)
But it needs finish sanded after drum and edger or that transition point (at drum and edger) will stick out like a sore thumb if applying in stain before poly.
It also levels out any small ridges the drum sander can make no matter how careful you are
Much of that stuff doesn't show til you apply finish
..L.T.A.
Mikey P
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One sneeze or glance at your phone to see what time it is, and you just bought a bunch of planks...
Kenny Hayes
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It’s not that hard. He might wanna find an old rental that has beat up floors where they say the same as carpet, can you just make it look good. That’s what I did. I have all that crap. I too thought I might expand to that, but it’s still mostly residential 
Living The Dream
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My first house that I bought had wood floors and we refinished them. The hardest part was the stopping point along the wall, but I was able to smooth it out with the edger. I used a finisher that was similar looking to a Cimex.
Kenny Hayes
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An edger makes all the difference. You don’t have to worry about where you stop. But edge at the same time with each grit. The orbital sander is the ticket as well. Got all my stuff off eBay. I do use the orbital a lot as a square scrub on vct. It certainly recouped all my investment with it
Dolly Llama
Number 5
takes a little more than that to blow thru 1/32" of veneer hardwood.
(unless you're a ham fisted knuckle dragging cave man w/12grit on the roller)
if no finish sanding after drum, it's possible to see shallow dips with gloss finish when you look across the room in good light.
Note, that is speculation on my part, cause I've never NOT finish sanded after drum.
I just know you can't get it perfectly consistent the whole stroke or room.
Not just the machine technique, but all that wood isn't the same hardness either.
a piece of oak, maple or rainforest tree can vary in hardness from tree to the next.
even one part of the same tree to the other.
having said that, I think if I was doing veneered wood refinish (never have) the cimex like triple head sander would be safer methinks
..L.T.A.
