Makita look a like sander

Every time I have bought a cheap powertool I have regretted in quite quickly. Either when it breaks within a few weeks or when it completely wrecks what I am working on and the cost of fixing the job costs more than the better tools would have done in the first place.

That looks like it is cordless too. How good is the battery going to be when the whole thing only costs £35?

If it is occasional and cheap you need, I would go for something with a cord. First page of Screwfix just for an example : https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/random-orbit-sanders/cat830928?sort_by=price

Mmm...it'll probably be OK for a few hours, I can only imagine it'll get real noisy real quick...and probably have massive vibration
I got the real makita...I don't think I paid too much for it as I brought it as a bare unit from screwfix...
My advice would be buy the real deal..use it for what you need it for then sell it on...doubt you will get many takers for the no name one

I've got a couple of Makita copies for tools I rarely use and they are fine. Not as nice, but nice enough. For that, though the real deal is only £60 so I'd go for makita. It is a nice bit of kit.

. How good is the battery going to be when the whole thing only costs £35

its a bare unit

Yes will go for real deal where at £60?

£89 is cheapest I've seen

I actually have the makita lxt version this is based on. tbh I think it's a bit crap. I also have a festool rts 400 and whilst a different type of sander it knocks the spots off the makita. I wouldn't buy again (and I'm a malita fanboi)

Where are people buying the discs from for these? I have the same thing (Milwaukee), rarely gets used as I'm always out of discs. They last about four minutes and come in packs of six for silly money.

I have that exact one, it's fine tbh- one of the best bits about teh makita ecosystem is the knockoffs and 3rd party stuff, using genuine batteries and chargers, you can get cheap tools for occasional use that you'd not want to spend full makita price on. It's usually a total false economy for stuff like drills, impacts, etc, more stressed tools that get used a lot but I have a cheap strimmer, leaf blower, and a couple of grinders and they've all been really useful. The grinders purely so I'm not constantly changing tools! I also have a couple of lights that are ironically miles better than the slightly crap makita one.

It's quite clumsy to use because of the size of the battery and the balance, but that's also true of the genuine one here. For any serious amount of sanding I always get out the corded one I have, it's just so much lighter and more wieldy. But for small jobs in awkward places it's really handy. For finishing cut boards and the like especially, smoothing edges rather than finishing whole big surfaces, that sort of thing. I've used it as a polisher for spot repairs on the car as well.

Go and see if lidl have got one in stock. Cheap plus 2yr warranty.