Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34354 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Black & Decker
• Model: MS550GB
• Dimensions: 9.63" h x 5.13" w x 13.50" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• Detail sander with compact design for light sanding work
• Performs fine sanding, polishing, scrubbing
• Small size, finger attachment allow access to small areas
• Textured gel-padded grips for comfort, control
• Includes 41 sanding accessories

Amazon.com Review
This detail sander’s small size allows it to get into tight spaces. It has a very comfortable grip and comes with an attachment to sand in between stair balusters. It comes with a hook and loop sanding pad and scrubbing and polishing options. This is a light-duty tool, designed for occasional use, perfect for the homeowner or handyman.

This tool is not recommended for carpenters or woodworkers, as it is not designed to be used continuously for hours on end. Use this sander for light applications; if you intend to strip off multiple layers of paint or smooth rough-sawn lumber or sand hardwoods, you’d be better off going with a heavy-duty tool. -- Gabriel Shantara Ford

Amazon.com Product Description
Designed to fit easily in the contour of your palm, the Black & Decker MS550GB Mouse Detail Sander /Polisher is ideal for completing light sanding needs. With its compact size and finger detail attachment, this detail sander can get into small spaces to perform finish sanding, polishing, scrubbing, and more. Textured, gel-padded comfort grips keep your hands comfortable while allowing you to securely hold the tool, helping to ensure safety, accuracy, and efficiency. The sander comes with 41 different sanding accessories for performing a wide range of tasks.

From the Manufacturer
Black & Decker's revolutionary-shaped Mouse sander/polisher is taking on a new shape of its own with innovative comfort-enhancing features. Designed to be the most compact sander, the Mouse palm grip sander/polisher has become the market leading sander because it fits so well in the palm of your hand and is easy to control and maneuver through a range of sanding tasks. Today, one of four sanders is a Mouse sander/polisher. The new Mouse features a saddle design which form-fits to your hand and provides a place for your hand to comfortably rest. This saddle shape improves comfort, control and grip on the Mouse. The new Mouse also features gripping surfaces at key pressure points to provide stronger gripping power. Textured GELMAX comfort Grips are positioned on the top of the Mouse and sides to cushion your palm, thumb and fingers. These gel grips are surrounded by rubber overmolds to naturally contour to the hand. The new Mouse is a versatile sander that takes you from general sanding to sanding tight corners, to polishing brass l amps to scrubbing tile. The Mouse sands, polishes, detail sands and scrubs. A separate detail finger attachment attaches to the mouse to sand between chair spindles or sand into deep corners and other hard-to-reachareas. Reversible sandpaper tips allow you to turn the sandpaper around and use the opposite end to extend life and use of paper. Hook and loop backed-standing, polishes and scrubbing pads pull off the Mouse for quick and easy changes, and can be repositioned to extend the life of your sandpaper. The Mouse is sold with a convenient storage case and 41 assorted polishing, sanding and scrubbing accessories.

Customer Reviews

Easy to handle, good for small jobs
This is my first sander and I wanted something lightweight that I could handle and this fits the bill. Yes, replacements for the the hook and loop sandpaper are hard to find and expensive. Here's my solution:
1) Cut a piece of plain sandpaper in the desired courseness to match the mouse template.
2) Apply ordinary elmer's liquid glue to the top of a piece or worn out mouse sandpaper.
3) Press the new cut piece on top.
4) Put on a flat surface and place several books on top.

After several hours, use on sander. No kidding, I've done this twice and it holds together for the life of the sandpaper.

Works fine, but use your own sandpaper!
I bought this sander for one very specific purpose: to sand some nooks and crannies which I couldn't reach when refinishing the softwood fir floor in our 1896 Victorian. I frankly didn't expect much and ordered the much more expensive Fein multi tool (which I'll now cancel) at the same time.

The supplied sandpaper wore out within seconds--literally. I then cut a piece to fit from an 80 grit round I'd purchased for my Porter-Cable orbital sander. It worked great--the floor was smooth and ready for the finer grit and the sandpaper was ready for more work.

The product includes a little canvas carry bag which is a nice feature--it comes with some little parts you'd almost certainly lose otherwise.

Accessories tough to find
I bought this to refinish/finish some furniture that I am working on. It works fairly well for light duty sanding. The main problem I ran into was trying to find the sandpaper/accessories I needed. Black & Decker doesn't make low grit sandpapers, so you have to buy 3rd party. Not always easy to find. The other problem I had was trying to find replacement steel wool pads. None of the hardware/megastores in my town have them. If I had to do this over again, I would probably purchase sander that used standard sandpaper sheets.

Update: I have recently found more third-party sheets that work with this sander. That may bump the rating to 3.5 or 4. I still can't find replacement steel wool sheets, so no 5 stars.