Loveless Turbo Sander

Tradesman

Hey, anybody use the Loveless Turbo sander? I've seen their ads and checked out the website and plan to buy one of their drywall vacs. Was wondering if the sander would be worth it. Seems like a good tool for closets and corners (not the PC's strong point).

Tradesman

Since there haven't been any replies to this post, I'll reply to my own post, in case anyone has the same question. Since I first asked the question about the Loveless Turbo Drywall sander, I did a little more research online and found a number of reviews on Amazon. Definitely mixed reviews; enough negatives to steer me away from the tool. Sounds like a good idea whose time has not yet come. Still gonna buy the vacuum, though.

Drywall1

Please let us know how it works. I have looked at them before and just didn't know anyone with one.

Nate

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Brockster

I've got this porta cable sander and along with my crapsman vacuum you don't get too much dust. It works great for (maybe) knockdown but works best at knocking down a popcorn ceiling or remodle/retexture jobs where you need to smooth out the old sand texture to start over. It also comes in handy to clean up a HO DYI mud job. I rarely use it but it's nice to have around for certain jobs.
You really have to be careful with new drywall or you will be re-coating walls, plus it roughs up the paper a lot and will leave swirl marks too.

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CrazyTaper

HEY BROCKSTER, I just finished a job for NASA and it had to be 95% dust free. I rented the Porter Cable from AMES with the pad and 180 grit paper. I was considering buying a unit but your post has me concerned. I had no trouble with it. Yes, you have to watch for the swirls-but other than that -no problemo.

drywallet

We have one, and use 120 girt and it still seems to leave swearls. I use it after the first coat and second coat to just brush sand. The final we use 100 on a sanding pole and fine 3m sponges. Works the best for us

Tradesman

I love the Porter-Cable sander but also had some trouble with swirl marks at first. Switching to 220 grit pretty much solved that. That thing SANDS! With a light touch, though, it does a great job- fast and virtually dustless.

I'm still looking for a dustless sander for inside corners and places like closets where the PC is hard or impossible to use. I usually wind up using the Radius 360, which works great on corners and all but the most confined spaces. If I need dustless, I've got a hand one that just plugs into the vac hose and uses a sanding screen. Works o.k. but I am still on a quest for a power sander that will work in confined spaces and control dust. I'm just not sure that the Loveless is the one. A number of the reviews I read complained that it was slow and high maintenance, needing oiling every 30 mins. Some said it worked great. I'd really like a professional's opinion, but apparently there aren't many pros who have used it, which tells me a lot.

Al Taper

I have a kitchen job starting this week.And I was thinking on how to keep the dust down. I was going to wet sand. But then i was thinking of the cheap dustless sanding parts you buy at HD or lowes.Has any one try it and does it work?

Tradesman

Hey, Al,

I haven't used the sanders at HD or Lowe's, I got mine at a lumberyard about 12 years ago, but I think it's basically the same. It is just like a regular old hand drywall sander but the pad on it has grooves cut in it for the air to flow through and it takes a sanding screen rather than paper. Works great, virtually dustless, excellent for small jobs. The only thing I noticed about it right off was that the sanding screens being a grid, they tend to leave scratches when sanding either up/down or side to side. The way I get around this nuisance is to sand with the sander held kinda diagonally so you're not sanding with the grid on the screen. Does that make sense? I can't think of any other way to explain it. Also, 220 grit screens with a light touch scratch much less.

Brockster

I've had low dust jobs turn out great by scraping lap-marks and crossing everything off real good and a good moping with a wringer type mop. It is kind of a pain but if you scrape and do a good job as you go along you can get away with no sanding.

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studmancny

Agree with Brock put it on good and wet sand using a regular old sponge no grit, something you take out of the sink on your way out the door for no dust. The porter cable works good best we have used. practice on 2nd coat w/ 180-220 grit, but can sand skim coat with no swirls. As said before this thing will eat had aguy sand 12000 ft in 8 hrs. and it looked good.