WagnerSpraytech 0513040 PaintEater Electric Palm Grip Paint Removal Sanding Kit, Orbital Disc Sander

Great product if you have a DIY that involves sanding large areas!

I have 13 old oak doors in my old house. They have about 8 coats of paint on each door - the top 4 are latex paint and the bottom 4 are oil based enamel from what I can tell. I have tried orbital sanders, belt sanders, paint strippers and heat guns. All of them can get through the latex, but it takes hours to get through the enamel that has been on for decades. I had the most success with the heat gun and scraper, but it still took me about 8-10 hours a door to strip the paint. I bought the Paint Eater and tried it for about 15 minutes tonight. It chewed right through the latex like it was nothing and after a few passes made it through the enamel. I got about 1/2 of one side of the door completed - definitely a time saver and stripped it clean down to the bare wood.I do have a few complaints though... The motor is 2600 RPM's, so when you pass over the paint it will sometimes bite it really hard and throw you around a bit - it took me off guard the first time and it nearly flew right off my table. Definitely need 2 hands and a tight grip to hold onto this thing. It spins so fast that if you leave it in one area too long it will begin to melt the paint which just spins the paint around and clogs up your pad. Also, after only 15 minutes it got so hot that it was uncomfortable to hold around the motor and when I stopped smoke was coming off of it - I assume the paint chips that were trapped in the arbor.Overall, the few complaints don't outweigh the time that this has saved me just from my little test tonight. The pads seem a little pricey, but it will probably be about the same price as the amount of sanding discs I was using before for each door.

I've been using the paint eater to prep cedar siding before re-painting my entire house.It works quite well and will strip the paint off if you need to remove it all and you can feather pretty good also with it if that's all you need to do. I found where I have old boards with 4 layers of old paint on pine siding it was hard to feather as it was making some deeper rough edges so I used a palm sander to help feather those. On the newer sides of my house it's all cedar and has only one primer and paint layer and it feathers much better on that and I didn't need to do extra sanding on mostly all of that. Overall it was worth buying because it does very well when you haven't got several old layers to deal with. If I had a situation with really bad siding with 4 layers of old paint in really bad shape I would try one of those diamond blade strippers as I think they will strip off old paint a lot faster than this will. This will strip off all the paint if you want, but it would take longer than the diamond blade strippers from what I've seen. Good product to have though and happy I have it for my project as it's doing a great job on the cedar siding with only a couple layers of old paint which hasn't got too much peeling and where it is peeling it seems to feather it well. Also on the old pine siding their was never a primer applied before it was originally stained so I think that is causing it to be harder to feather as it wants to just strip it all off to the bare wood, this probably wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for the lack of a primer on the original solid stain paint job, as the primer would hold the solid stain on better so if can take the sanding without coming completely off.

I am not a handyman by any means. I have next to 0 experience performing any level of home maintenance. My apartment is a historical building and I have beautiful brick walls that have been painted, and 16 foot ceilings with tall painted polls. I had purchased paint stripping products to test on the walls. I won't mention the name hear about it they do sell a test kit with three paint remover products and paper to put over them remover. Two of are these removal products decided to stick onto the wall permanently, making the problem worse and I was thinking I needed to call-in the professionals. Then I saw this tool which I thought was quite affordable. Let's just say that it was able to do in 10 minutes what the other products could not do in 48 hours. I love how the finished look on the brick wall looks natural, as I'm going for that distressed industrial style look. And its self and out the edges and just gave a more authentic vibe to the wall. As for the wooden 16 foot polls, the paint either it was easily able to eat through multiple layers of paint with ease. I felt extremely confident using the tool and had no issues whatsoever in achieving the result I desired. Even if you had to buy a replacement pad, I feel like it would be more cost-effective than having to purchase all the other tools he potentially need to remove paint, not to mention the hours of time you save. Really there is no comparison.

I used this for removing peeling and flaked paint from the corner boards of my house. It worked well but is not easy. You have to get a feel for using it as it will wobble badly if not controlled. I've read some of the reviews concerning the stop pin breaking its plastic guide. While using, due to the direction the disc is turning, it will tighten. This is what causes it to resist removal. I put some anti-seize on the threads and base and it came right off with no problem. I also superglued a hard piece of rubber against one side of the plastic guide where it usually breaks (not necessary if you use anti seize). This is overall a very nice product and a good idea as well.