Time to scrap this Peugeot?

[Marm Toastsmith]

I inherited this from my great uncle. It's worked bloody hard for me as I used it to sand the wooden floors in my current house...

As you can see the mains lead is damaged, but also more recently the foam rubber pad which sits under the sandpaper started disintegrating making it useless as it sheds sticky crap over whatever you're trying to sand.

Should I just bin it? Fix it? Give it away?

It's a good old thing really.

[Tamworthbay]

Fix it! The foam pad is easily replaced for a couple of quid.

[vulgalour]

Definitely fix it.  Be daft to bin something for want of a bit of foam.

[loserone]

Phwaorrr.

 

Would be a shame to let it die

[sierraman]

Scrap it m8. 

No seriously I’d fix it. Even though Peugeot are to electrics what I am to tapestry I’d fix it. Strangely I had a Peugeot mountain bike when I was a kid, unlike its cars it was a big heavy clunky thing that was a real fucker to pedal. It was no 205 GTI. 

[strangeangel]

What they all said - a new foam pad and that old soldier has plenty more years ahead of it.

[Marm Toastsmith]

Cool, will keep and fix.

Had a quick look on the bay of e and couldn't find quite the right thing but I'm sure I'll find something. Looks like Makitas use a cork pad. Is it a generic sort of thing?

I may even replace the mains cable...

It's a solid old tool. Probably better built than the 205, but then it could be older.

I do actually fancy a late 80s/early 90s Peugeot mountain bike to match the 205. Would be fun slinging it in the back.

[smellypoo]

Both the foam pad and the mains cable are easy fixes. Keep it. 

It looks like it's from a time when things like this were built to be serviceable. 

[barmatt]

I've got an old Peugeot in my kitchen... 

 

[bigstraight6]

Fix it up! I hate this ethos that as soon as something stops working properly just bin it and buy a brand new replacement that might be of worse quality  Chinese made shit than that you are replacing..