I was lamenting in another thread that I haven't been very impressed with my Festool ETS125, but thought maybe it was the Rubin paper, so I bought a box of the new "Granat" paper to try. Well, I went to peel the used piece of Rubin off, and the backing pad came with it, and I can't seem to get it back on.
It looks like there are 4 Torx screws that hold the pad to the sander. It seems like my screws are too short, though The threaded holes on the sander appear to be only threaded on the back half - the portion of the holes closest to the pad is not threaded (or only very light thread marks are visible).
Did I somehow....strip out the threading that holds the pad to the sander?
For reference, I've never had the pad off, before, and this sander has only had light hobby use (probably <10 hours, total).