I purchased a used one as the piece is a bit pricey, but the machine kzread.infoUgkxG6fbm3cHBd7CNTjk5D-dwYe9c9tCB9ZN has surpassed my expectations. We sand small parts by hand often, sized around 1"x1/2," and specifically look for a piece that's designed to be vertical. The motor has plenty of torque and great speed settings. The only inconvenience I had is that the disk measures 5" where we trim 6" stick-and-sand disks down easily by mounting it then cutting with a box cutter.

Really enjoying these reviews, can finally get some insight into the tools that are on offer here in Aus. Thanks mate.

I own the gex 150 AVE sander as well, brilliant sander. low vibration and wonderful balanced, would recommend it to anyone any day. fantastic video mate, like always.

@daskeg

8 жыл бұрын

+dragonlordrules1 Totally agree. One of the few tools I own which I absolutely love and constantly recommend to everyone.

Good report Paul. Made my mind up 👍

Great review thanks! I think I've found the sander for my new boatbuilding project! (May need both :) )

Great review, Paul. Thanks.

Best review and totaly accurate. Based on It I bought myself a gex ave and, I'm so glad because my hands don't hurt anymore after sanding (I didn' try the tool before It came home ;) ). Thanx mate - you've helped a lot.

@hinduspl

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have any issues with bosch gex? I consider getting one

Bosch is doing a great job competing with festool. I have they're hepa vac and sander works great almost dust free sanding. I'm also a Bosch fan have the glide saw, routers, vac and sanders. Wish they would make track saw available in USA.

thanks for the review, I'm off to axminster in nuneaton uk to go buy this one based on this video. excellent review

@petersmedley459

4 жыл бұрын

Simon Hopkins , excellent choice of venue! Don’t forget to take either blinkers or a briefcase full of cash for all of those ‘ooh!’ ‘Aah!’ moments.... 😉

Where do u get the attachment for the hoover from?

bosch says the smaller one has orbit PLUS Rotation. is the Rotation Forced? or does it rotate 'passively' ?

Hi, where do you get that adapter from for the vacuum please

Nice review. Cheers!

Great Great review hi thanks for the info I’ll definitely get the bigger one of the two what’s wrong the subject of the Merica which is what I was going to get but started looking into it they seem to have amazingly bad reliability issues which obviously put me off straight away

Great tool. Like!

Hello Paul ,Can you help me please ? MAKITA - BO5041K or Bosch GEX125-1

I have the American version of the small one, works great for me and the best dust filter I've found on theses smaller sanders. Only issue I've had is that the Velcro no longer holds the sand paper very well after about a year.

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+Lyle Kobberstad I don't have enough varied experience without using a vacuum, but I believe thats a problem with all 'blow-into-cannister/bag' type setups - not enough of the dust is extracted away from the pad so the dust prematurely wears out the velcro.

@nocnymarek7645

3 жыл бұрын

How do look vibration level on it? Are you able work over 15 min?

Very keen to see the GEX150 Turbo... Because hell if I'm paying a grand for a Festool.

What does it mean AVE and what AE?

I own the 125 and love it, Ive heard the Bosch's customer service is pretty unsatisfactory

Can i sand paint from walls with it? And uneven cement surfaces?

@TheWoodKnight

5 жыл бұрын

You can, I wouldn't. right tool for the job type thing.

Is Bosch GEX125-1 AE a Double-Action?

An excellent review as always Paul. One suggestion I would make is that you set-up Amazon affiliate accounts for all the major markets. My best to you, Happy New Year.

@TheWoodKnight

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ariana! I do actually have an Amazon affiliate account for the US, though I didn't when I publishes this video. For the most part I'm one part lazy and one part... cautious. I don't really want to spam the description with links, but at the same time I guess it really isn't.. I guess its more one part lazy with one part anxiety about it eh? What are the other major markets? UK, Germany?

@arianakhan6665

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Jenkins Hi Paul, I can sympathise with your predicament, but given you've invested so much time creating the content, I would consider going back and adding at least your US affiliate to at least your product reviews. If you layout your description well, it shouldn't look too cluttered. You could also use these --------------- or these ************ or these _______ to separate sections, just play around with a template for your description. There's the USA, United Kingdom, and also Canada for the English speakers. The other markets you can decide on are Germany, Austria, France, and Spain. You're good at what you do, your reviews contributed to my purchasing a Mafell MT55CC KIT, my Bosch router, and now orbital sander. It's not spam, it's useful information to help me support good content creation, as a techy who only dabbles with woodwork.

where abouts can you buy the GEX 125-150 AVE in australia

@TheWoodKnight

7 жыл бұрын

TotalTools, Bunnings, Blackwoods

Those hoses looks interesting. Have you talked about them in an early video? If so which one? If not, please do.

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+Fredrik Rambris hoses? The vac hose? It's just what came with my fein dustex

Great video! I just purchased the GEX 1251ae due to this informative video! BTW- were can I buy that vacuum interface which fits between your sander and vacuum hose ? 😊

Hi Paul. I’m looking for sander and like you have quire a few 125mm discs. How is the sander going? How does it go with the 125mm pad? It seems to have been replaced by the 40-150 which doesn’t mention the 125 pad anymore. I assume I could simply by one but just thought I’d ask you about yours first.

@TheWoodKnight

Жыл бұрын

A few years back I switched over to the Mirka Deros (well, actually the Metabo SXE-150-BL, but its a Deros rebadged). Before that, the Bosch sander was going great, but the Deros is lighter/quieter/faster/etc. I did have 125mm discs, but mostly gave them away to a friend because the 150mm discs sand a lot faster (~40% more surface area) On the 40-150, yes, should still be the same process of unbolting the pad and applying a smaller one, but you may need to contact Bosch or one of their stockists to order it in, as Bosch parts in Australia can be hard to come by on shelves.

@deanludeman7538

Жыл бұрын

@@TheWoodKnight Thanks. I knew was an old review, but it was still the best one! Cheers

Does your sanding pad bolt come loose with the 150 mm pad. Mine does.

@TheWoodKnight

7 жыл бұрын

Nope

@Angler233

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Jenkins how much torque do you place on the bolt?

@TheWoodKnight

7 жыл бұрын

I have no way to measure or give you any sort of indicator that'd mean something. "Enough"? If you've got issues with the bolt coming out, apply thread locker, try getting it tighter or call bosch

@monumentedinpiatra

7 жыл бұрын

Mine does. After lots of tightening up it broke and now I'm searching for another sander. EDIT: I've got the bolt replaced and now I'm using it with screw fixing glue. Seems to hold for now.

is this the same as the ros20vsc?

@TheWoodKnight

4 жыл бұрын

The GEX125-1A is the same as the ros20vsc, yes.

Difficult to find 150mm sandpaper. The shop where I bought my GEX 125-150 AVE doesn't have any ....

@TheWoodKnight

4 жыл бұрын

If you're in Australia, try Amazon, The Sandpaper Man, Best Abrasives, Sydney Tools, Total Tools.. those are just the stores I've personally bought sandpaper from, I'm sure there are others.

Thank u found it at blackwoods

You have sold me on the big brother Bosch. I’ve been looking at a new sander for a few months now. I will admit I am a Festool fan and the only reason I haven’t brought it is because of the Festool ETS 150. Can you tell me where you got your pricing from? I can’t see it on the Total Tool website. It was a good review. Cheers

@TheWoodKnight

3 жыл бұрын

I got my pricing from 2016! Prices and availability changes all the time, as far as I know the only authorised Bosch Blue dealers *these days* are Amazon Australia, Total Tools, Bunnings and Blackwoods. Authorised dealers should be able to do a special order (which realistically means TotalTools because you may not be able to get in contact with any of the others)

@gavinclayton9552

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheWoodKnight thanks for that. Yeah I did see this video was 4 years old and understand prices change. I wasn’t holding you to the price was just wondering where you had seen it. I will try Blackwoods I have an account there, if not a special order from Total Tool it is. Cheers

i have owned the bosch 150/125 for 11 years the only thing ive replaced is the velcro pad at work we use festool go for the bosch far better

I've had the GEX 125-150AVE for a couple of years now and can't fault it. I've spent a lot of time using it to sand vertical surfaces (weatherboard house) and while it is a bit on the heavy side my arms soon got used to it. I'm currently in the process of replacing both the 125 and 150 pads but they are proving hard to buy off the shelf in Australia and what I have found is almost a third of the price of the sander. If anyone reads this and knows where to source these pads at a reasonable price please let me know. Great review!

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Hutchins FWIW the GEX 125-150AVE is the ROS65VC in the US. The backing pads for that are available from Amazon (and ship to Australia!) and should be compatible (not guaranteeing that). Lookup the RS6044, RS6045, RS6046 - those are the 150mm/6" pads. To ship one came to $25AUD (with shipping), which isn't too bad (a little more than a 1/10th the cost of the sander ;)). I'm not sure they have the 8+1 hole pad in the US though.

@paul.hutchins

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Jenkins Wow that is cheap! I was looking at anywhere from $35-60 here. Thanks for the tip! Do you recommend any particular brands or sanding discs? I usually stick with the Bosch as that's the better brand at Bunnings but happy to explore elsewhere.

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Hutchins The other place to look at would be the UK - toolstop, Axminster, etc. The US doesn't seem to have the 6" 8+1 pads, but the UK do. "2 608 601 185" is the part number for that. There is also a third party (DFS, german brand) that appears to make a *35 hole* pad, though its a bit pricier.

I bought a new Bosch 125 too.. when I try to switch on the machine in speed 1, only the machine vibrates but not the disk. When when I start the machine at 5 or 6 speed and lower it to 1 speed it don't do that.. is that normal?

@TheWoodKnight

3 жыл бұрын

No

@undertowsurf

2 жыл бұрын

I got one today, a bit low on power in low settings. But compared to others I have killed it is great. Light, sands pretty good and smooth. I just run on 5/6 mostly or 3 for detail. Once up to speed it's fine, and if let it rev and not press to hard it actually sands well.

Can you just focus on one item at a time without introducing everything at the same time ?

does GEX 125-1 AE rotate "directly" or by inertia / from vibration ?

Could not find the bigger Bosch sander at Total tools...

@TheWoodKnight

4 жыл бұрын

Try contacting TotalTools, or Blackwoods have it available. They (Bosch) dropped the "-150" from the product name, but still includes all the parts from what I can see

@bennstevens8169

3 жыл бұрын

They have been out of stock from Bosch since june, I ordered one through Blackwoods and received an email today telling me it's back in stock

Thank you for the video. What you've failed to do is a test of these sanders to see how they perform after a month or as you can read here for me it didn't take much to keep on changing the head/base of the unit. I thought that Bosch is real Terrible, as an amateur woodworker who is just starting without many tools I've bought unfortunately a Bosch orbital sander that was SO VERY BAD, after about it each time I've had to send about 10' of wood the head stopped holding the sandpaper as you've correctly mentioned, so in the warranty Bosch doesn't cover the head/base and to make a story short after 3 times that I've replaced the head/base I ended up buying a very old used Makita which is so much better and reliable and had no problem with it whatsoever. Maybe in the past, Bosch had good German quality products but now these days I say "FORGET BOSCH AND SAVE YOUR MONEY AND TIME"! This is my opinion.

@TheWoodKnight

7 жыл бұрын

Leane Garden this review was done after a month with the tools. I kept the larger one and is used in every project without fail.

@leanegarden6997

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I had a real bad experience with Bosch sander and I see now that people are putting bad reviews about their bench vice as well. Anyway as far as I concern I will not buy any Bosch product anymore.

@makingmakers8013

7 жыл бұрын

The only Bosch vice I know of is either Dremel (which is part of the Bosch group) or a plastic play centre for kids.

@CopiWood

7 жыл бұрын

you probably dont know how to use it right.

@BischBaschBosch

6 жыл бұрын

When you say you had to keep changing the "base" of the unit, do you mean the pad? The sanders come with Bosch's soft pad. They also do medium and hard pads for more aggressive removal. The soft pads that come with it are for light and finish sanding. Sounds to me like you were going for aggressive removal with the soft pads. That's user error. I've been using mine professionally for 3 years for everything from high removal to polishing and it's never failed me.

Great review...sorry to raise the dead...I have seen the GEX 125-150 AVE for any less than around $450...it must have gone up since you reviewed...

@TheWoodKnight

2 жыл бұрын

Its EOL, the replacement is ~$300-350 though stock is very low - Bosch are probably having issues getting anything in again, like they did for a large portion of 2020.

@stevewaters6679

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWoodKnight thanks for the response...yeah struggling to find one...I ended up just grabbing the cheaper PEX 400...I don't do that much with a large one...thanks again for responding...

I have a bosch GEX 125 / 150 . It’s rubbish. The sanding pad would fly off when using . Than the centre nut broke that holds the sanding pad.

What the heck is that big Milwaukee sander? They don't sell that in the US as far as i know. All they offer is a battery powered sander and a small cheap sander at the big box stores. I currently have that little Bosch which here in the US it's the ROS20VSC and it's a great sander, especially for the money. Hooked up to a shop vac and using Mirka Autonet or Abranet mesh discs, i have pretty much zero dust escape. The one thing that confused me in this review was how you mention something about it stalling due to its lack of power. Sounds like maybe they castrated the motor on the AU version because i have never had such a problem, even with super grippy autonet sanding discs. And pay no mind to the other posters who asked you to speak slower. I can understand you just fine. It't not even a heavy Aussi accent. But i guess people are always gonna find something to have a whinge about. (see what i did there?) Ha!

@TheWoodKnight

5 жыл бұрын

The motor in the AU version is fine, its more to do with the amount of suction and porosity of the wood. The milwaukee sander is apparently rebadged as the Rigid R26111, though its at least "relatively" cheap!

Could you slow down a bit for us non native speakers?

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+kintaters Not really - the video is fairly lengthy as it is, and this is just how I talk. However if you look in the description there is a link to an article on my website of this review. Its nearly identical to the script I used.

@johnskyrim

6 жыл бұрын

non-native speaker here, understood you perfectly

@jonathanm9436

5 жыл бұрын

Yours really are the most objective and complete, and therefore believable and useful reviews of tools I've found. Really good. And I'll be taking your advice on my first sander purchase this week. I'd like you to be better known, so I too would like it if you could slow down your speech - had to replay some bits a few times. A 100 words/min is perfect to communicate to a wide audience - you're doing twice that. If you're good - and you are - people will happily watch a longer video. Although I'll be the last to tell you how to run your channel, here are two practitioners that I like for the speed of their speech, which gives listeners time to absorb the important things they are saying. Note the length of their material and the number of subscribers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dX9928dtgr2TZc4.html and kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2hnrrqqgtq3c5s.html All the best.

@aar3682

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanm9436 I did just read the writen article .

it's a 2 for one. smile.

150mm discs are far cheaper!!!

i thought it's going to be an AvE style review lol

@TheWoodKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+jo prst nah, I'm more interested in what the tool does/if it performs its job than what's inside. Skookum to me is the end result, not the type of grease or plastic used. Also I'm not as creative with my profanity.

bla bla

the 125 is a steaming pile of crap

The sound is terrible. Like the words are floating into each other.

MUMBLE MUMBL MUMBLE! Slow down, open your mouth and speak clearly!!!

@evanpilot

4 жыл бұрын

That echo doesn't help either.

My initial reaction is that you mumble and talk too fast, which means I really had to concentrate on what you are saying and less on what you are doing in the video, meaning I got quickly irritated and wanted to look for another reviewer before you even got to the second sander. Great, you have a Makita BO5041, but you just kept comparing and mentioning your Makita BO5041 the whole time. Made me wonder if you are upset that you had to pay for your Makita BO5041. Feels a little like an anti-Makita video. Overall, this video had potential, but it gets a thumbs down since you mumbled and spoke too quickly.

@TheWoodKnight

4 жыл бұрын

I can only compare the tools I have in front of me, not theoretical ones I've got no experience with. At the time, I had the Makita, the two Bosch's, and the Milwaukee that I mentioned (and reviewed in a separate video). The Makita cost more than the cheapest Bosch and performed worse - it's hard to be too positive about it :)