this is FREE UK Delivery on orders dispatched by Amazon over £20,so will not appeal to everyone
Aluminium oxide
Full resin bond and flexible backing paper
Open coat to reduce clogging
Use with 1/2 sheet sanders, palm sanders and for hand sanding
115 mm x 5 m roll
18 comments
robo989
8 Oct 17#1
This stuff is not fit for purpose. You will regret the time wasted.
Using this would have taken over 20 hours for a job that should take 1-2
Darzen to robo989
8 Oct 17#2
You're supposed to use the rough side.
:joy:
:ninja:
jasee to robo989
8 Oct 17#3
Please explain why, does the grit fall off? The reviews on Amazon are all contradictory!
robo989 to jasee
9 Oct 17#5
Right basically it's just extremely poor quality in all aspects. Paper tears easily in a sheet sander. Is useless for hand sanding (but not really it's purpose admittedly). Clogs up almost instantly when using in a sheet sander even with a proper vacuum cleaner attached. Loses it's grit EXTREMELY quickly, yes cap, and yes extremely.
When it didn't tear my sheet sander covered about 30cm x 10cm of finished old oak worktop before needing to change the sheet, the sheet was clogged, the sheet was basically bare.
Compare this to a metal mesh sheet which covered about 5metres squared, and some B&Q own brand sheets that covered about 2.5m x 2m per sheet, even that was just due to being clogged the actual grit was more or less intact.
TL-DR...
Just save yourself the hassle, I wished I'd have listened. Yes the normal stuff costs 4-5 times the price but this is where penny pinching will not be helpful in any way.
madball to robo989
9 Oct 17#10
If using in a sander with a hoover attachment I don't actually think it would work well as there are no holes for dust and debris to pulled through and you'll end up with all the dust staying on surface of material and then clogging up paper.
robo989 to madball
9 Oct 17#15
It doesn't work at all need to punch your own holes with
robo989 to jasee
9 Oct 17#6
Best thing todo is buy this and buy some proper stuff. Use this, then when you realize how bad it is, get the proper stuff out, if you're happy with this you can always return proper stuff back to B&Q etc :smile: (that won't happen though).
You'll be so relieved that your sander isn't broken and the sandpaper really is that bad, and the job you are doing isn't really going to take weeks that you won't begrudge the £2-3 wasted on this stuff.
mmachine to robo989
9 Oct 17#7
it might be helpful then to post a link to the stuff you would use,i have used this and if you do not try to sand too much too quickly then this is ok,must say tho this grit size sand paper is good enough to sand already undercoated wood to accept the top coat or to sand the gloss coat ro re -gloss again ,but if you are gonna try to use this to sand thru a few layers of paint to get to bare wood then no,you will get what others have said grit falls of and the paper shreds
robo989 to mmachine
9 Oct 17#8
I went for the B&Q 1/2 size sanding sheets 40 grit, 120 grit and finish with 240 grit metal mesh.
The metal mesh especially is amazing stuff, it can cut through muck and last for ages of can go on lighter protective coatings and just keep on going.
There isn't the huge range there and it's £8 odd for pack of 5 sheets but only needed 2 of those to get through a kitchen oak worktops that had been oiled 3-4 times over past 8 years.
urbanbushwacker
8 Oct 17#4
Is this any good for shifting Klingons after a night on curry and beer? :poop:
Daves_mate
9 Oct 17#9
good for scraping dirt off car bodywork?
paulandpam1 to Daves_mate
9 Oct 17#11
Yes Especially on Audi's
crazygoog
9 Oct 17#12
Looks like brown bog roll, to camouflage your wipes.
SCOUSEKEVIN
9 Oct 17#13
Thanks OP This one`s a 80 grit and costs £4.67 but its twice the length 10 metres so actually only a few pence dearer
Opening post
Aluminium oxide
Full resin bond and flexible backing paper
Open coat to reduce clogging
Use with 1/2 sheet sanders, palm sanders and for hand sanding
115 mm x 5 m roll
18 comments
You will regret the time wasted.
Using this would have taken over 20 hours for a job that should take 1-2
:joy:
:ninja:
The reviews on Amazon are all contradictory!
Paper tears easily in a sheet sander.
Is useless for hand sanding (but not really it's purpose admittedly).
Clogs up almost instantly when using in a sheet sander even with a proper vacuum cleaner attached.
Loses it's grit EXTREMELY quickly, yes cap, and yes extremely.
When it didn't tear my sheet sander covered about 30cm x 10cm of finished old oak worktop before needing to change the sheet, the sheet was clogged, the sheet was basically bare.
Compare this to a metal mesh sheet which covered about 5metres squared, and some B&Q own brand sheets that covered about 2.5m x 2m per sheet, even that was just due to being clogged the actual grit was more or less intact.
TL-DR...
Just save yourself the hassle, I wished I'd have listened. Yes the normal stuff costs 4-5 times the price but this is where penny pinching will not be helpful in any way.
Use this, then when you realize how bad it is, get the proper stuff out, if you're happy with this you can always return proper stuff back to B&Q etc :smile: (that won't happen though).
You'll be so relieved that your sander isn't broken and the sandpaper really is that bad, and the job you are doing isn't really going to take weeks that you won't begrudge the £2-3 wasted on this stuff.
The metal mesh especially is amazing stuff, it can cut through muck and last for ages of can go on lighter protective coatings and just keep on going.
There isn't the huge range there and it's £8 odd for pack of 5 sheets but only needed 2 of those to get through a kitchen oak worktops that had been oiled 3-4 times over past 8 years.
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