3M Xtract Electric Random Orbital Sander, 88764, 6 in, Central Vacuum

I love this sander. For this price point, it should have a removeable cord and it MUST have a box if you want 5 star ratings. Its great and very ergonomic on flat surfaces. It's a little clumsy on corners and edges.

You can see that some time ago I wrote a rave review of my 5" and 6" sanders. The 5" served me well for many years now and after taking a few week break from sanding I went to use the 5" this past weekend and it's dead. Tried multiple outlets and it simply just doesn't work anymore. The 6" is still working fine but the 5" was my go to for everything. Sad that now I'm going to pursue other brands, probably Mirka and spend almost double on a 5" sander but at least I know it will last or that they will stand behind it if it doesn't. 3M please rework this sander and put one out on the market that will not just randomly die on us.

I've has this for 6 weeks and it stopped working last night. When it was working it was great. Very smooth and quite operations with great dust collection. Last night it just stopped working, flashed the lights 3 times. Unplugged it and tried again, same thing, flashed the lights 3 times and nothing. I went from very excited to very disappointed

Stopped working little over 90 days. Sander never left the table I use to do my finishing work. It did work great for dust extraction and probably the best balanced low vibration orbital sander I have ever used. However for the price I would not except to have issues this early on.

I liked it until the motor died with 3 weeks of use. When I bought this sander, I had seen a few reviews saying this but I thought the problem would have been fixed but it wasn't. This isn't a tool you can trust and it's not worth the time dealing with it, the frustration and disappointment. It's a product which has lots of potential but, as a professional woodworker, I expect my higher end tools to work flawlessly from the moment I pick them up to the moment I put them down over the course of years. This product is not that.

Lasted 3 months with ~3 hours of use total, while exclusively using the 3m disc's and a high end dust extractor for light finishing work. Awful experience, my old yellow tool is 7 years old with maybe 260 hours sanding and now it's back in service. It's hard to imagine this not being recalled as it's clearly defective for most users

This sander only lasted 6 months. I do not use this all the time only for my hobby shop in my garage. I purchased it in February of 2023 and on 10/15/2023 plug it in no beep or lights come on. When the sander worked it worked great I actually told others how great it was and a huge step up from the box store sander I had been using. But after 6 months and light use I cannot believe it does not work. I have sent in a request for warranty but now I do not have a working sander and I have stuff to complete. I would not recommend purchasing this sander based on my experience I wish that this was not the case as I really did enjoy using this sander when it worked properly.

Bought a few months ago and not used much. Every time I've used it, it has overheated and shut down. This includes majority of the time with extraction and the odd occasion without extraction. Unit was sent back to supplier and replaced with brand-new one which has done the same thing on several occasions. I am returning products to supplier this week and moving on to a different brand entirely. Pretty unfortunate because my whole workshop is stocked to the hilt with 3M products. 💩

I'm writing this review while I am on hold for customer service. I've had this sander for 9 months now and have done nothing but sing it's praises. I have been beyond happy with it Last project, it started stalling during sanding. Just randomly with no excessive pressure applied or anything. Sanding some pine for a project yesterday and it just stopped. It will not come back on. I've used multiple outlets and even used my backup sander on the same outlet in the dust collector. The problem is the sander. After logging on here, I see this is common. I don't understand how this is not recalled

Bought the sander in August of last year and have less than 30 hours on it and just like most of the reviews it suddenly started cutting in an out then went completely dead. This is way to expensive a sander for there to be this many customers with the same issue. 3M needs to get on the ball and fix the defect and have a special page to get get these sander repaired.