Sander Recommendation?

What finish are you applying?

Forget that and belt sanders as they are to ferousous and cumbersome for door frams, palm sander is what you need

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

Light oak stain.

Um, possible problem here. If you don't take enough of the surface off, a stain might taken up unevenly, & you'll get a patchy finish. Your "compact sander" might be best for the job, since you want to remove some timber, but it's "handed", so you'll probably have to get the door stop off, and then sand it. A bigger belt sander wouldn't get into the corners so well. If you're applying some sort of coloured varnish as stain, you won't need to rub off anything like so much, so it might even be possible to do it by hand. Coloured "stain" that you paint, that dries to form a film, isn't anything like as durable a finish as

Anyway, a belt sander will be better than one of they there "orbital" things - you could use a scraper for those hard- to-get-at bits (broken window glass shards with *very slightly* curved edges are very good scrapers).

I'd sand them lightly by hand (cork block with 80 grit) and then repaint them, otherwise they're going to look a mess.

cheers Jacob

I'd be inclined to use Nitromors with scrapers and wire wool - with most=20 of the paint already removed it won't be too tedious.

There is a device designed to do exactly what you describe... only I am not sure if you will like the price:

Ferm chose to make a copy of it, they could do it for the usual seven and six (and it would last about as long as usual).

OTOH, the linear sanders I've used (some American industrial thing that probably costs as much as the Festool) were useless for stripping paint becuse they clogged their sandpaper up so quickly. Fine for preparing new mouldings for paint, but not good on refurb.

Yup, I was not suggesting it was not worth the price given the quality - most festool stuff seems to be pretty good in most respects, and they have a very good reputation for sanders in general. Only the OP might think it a bit steep for a one off job.

(personally I hate sanding mouldings etc and would happily spend the dosh if were going to save a few days of very dull work!)

It sounded like the OP was already back to wood after using a heat gun, so that ought no be too much problem in this case.