Perma-Grits - Mollycoddle or abuse ?

I don't know but I am intrested in a maple leading edge. Seems like my Gremlin had a pine one. What are you working on? mk

"MJKolodziej" < wrote >>

Seems awfully heavy, and for what?

If you need that bit of extra hardness, your plane will be in bad shape from the impact, anyway.

IMHO, pine is plenty strong, and hard. Basswood is another good choice, and is also pretty light, and a joy to work with.

Balsa is fine, but beware of sanding half set epoxy and dripping CA on it.

A wirebrush clears out epoxy OK, and acetone will take off the CA,., Carbon fibre is best avoided if you don;t want soot all over the balsa net time, too.

I think this is my 'most used' tool.

I got one last year and it is beginning to look a bit sad..I'll get a new one in due course.

'Iggins' Rodent

Cheers,

-- Boo

Good points.

Sounds like another useful point to note. I was thinking about using CF in the layup but have gone off the idea. The wing is laminated with 1/32 birch ply anyway and I think CF will be so stiff that it basically nullifies all the advantages of the ply and will just make the wing brittle instead of resilient. I'm going for 2 layers of

Have you used it a lot in the year ? I was expecting it to maybe last longer than that but in truth I'm so tee'd off with wrapping scraps of emery around wooden blocks that =A313 a year doesn't sound so bad...

Thanks again,

Mike

Its a lot less than I was spending on abrasives, and yes, I have used it a lot..several models, also much DIY. Oak and beech roughing..and fine sanding as well. Also removing plaster excess. MDF etc etc..

Its one of those tools that seems to pay for itself in about a week..and then soldiers on for years.

I will get some more..the curved ones look good.

It will hit steel, but mine is scarred from heavy piano wire smoothing..I will use a dremel diamond cut of in future. Aluminium clogs it but that brushes out mostly.

Good on CF and brass tho,.