I was one of the guys that jumped on the $100 Festool sander last year and I just now got mine in the last week. This is the first Festool for me because I've always been a little leery of the plunge into the bottomless money pit abyss that appears to surround these high dollar tools. My other sanders are the Porter Cable 394 that is attached to a 7810 vacuum and a Boxch 1250 DEVS that's attached to a second metal sided shop vac style vacuum using a general purpose hose from Peachtree WW supply (using duct tape I might add to keep it together). My question is just how are you suppose to hook the Festool sander to a vacuum system unless you buy their hoses and vac? Is there some sort of adapter or something? I'd love to have their collector - just not right now.
Ricky