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Just a little doodad.

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sander.txt and the accociated jpgs. JR Dweller inb the cellar

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JR North
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Something wrong with the dropbox. Here's the correct sander.txt:

Appalled by the high cost of large flexible sanding blocks, I made this one from a typing wrist support pad and a piece of computer packing foam. The green pad is a very dense foam, and is perfect for contour sanding. I glued the parts together with white glue.The pad surface measures

2-3/4" X 18-1/2". For the retaining clip bases, I used some 22GA steel from an old cookie sheet. The retaining clips are standard heavy duty paper clips. Originally, I attempted to spot weld one of the release levers to the clip base, but the high carbon steel of the lever just burned through with a shower of sparks. With classic out-of-the-box thinking, I passed a section of coat hanger through one of the eyelets and spot welded that to the base. Perfect. The bases are glued to the pad with epoxy. This sanding pad is for final primer finish on my Datsun Roadster project. Questions/comments: snipped-for-privacy@bigfoot.com
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JR North

Does it work? Looks pretty nifty.

I have to admit that most of my sanding blocks are bits of 1x2 cut to length; I just fold the sand paper up the short sides and hold it with my fingers and thumb to clamp. Works well, the price is right, changing paper is a snap, you can go really long if you need to, etc.

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Tim Wescott

On Tue, 04 May 2010 22:26:31 -0700, JR North wrote the following:

I looked at the pics first, then had to read the text to figure out WTF you had made.

Had you looked further:

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were cheap enough, eh?

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Larry Jaques

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JR North

Yeah, but... Those are too rigid and small for contour sanding. The deal with flexible blocks is you can get a uniform surface over a flat or curved large area. Think hood or quarter panel on a gloss black car. You can't get the surface uniformity needed for that with a rigid block. JR Dweller in the cellar

Larry Jaques wrote:

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JR North

But you can get lots of ugly flat spots!

So the next time you get run > Yeah, but... Those are too rigid and small for contour sanding. The deal

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Tim Wescott

I already had a big ugly flat spot on the rear from the last 4X4 to run over it:) I'm not painting the Roadster black, just used that to illustrate my point about flexible pads. The rigid pads will produce flat spots, because they can't conform to a curved surface . JR Dweller in the cellar

Tim Wescott wrote:

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