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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Jerry Reider on March 27, 2011, 10:27:45 AM
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I am working on building a Pathfinder and I was ready to sand the rough contour of the leading and trailing edges of the horizontal stab. I decided to do it on my workbench in the garage so I wouldn't have to clean up the mess on my building bench. While walking down the cement steps off my back porch I had an idea. How about just laying the paper on the steps and doing it? After doing that for a bit with 60 grit paper I thought hey the cement finish on the steps is about 60 grit. I proceeded to rough sand the leading and trailing edges in to the rough shape that I wanted directly on the surface of the steps without the paper. I then put the 60 grit back down on the steps and was able to carefully flat sand the mismatch of the glue joints on the flat surfaces. Worked great and it was fast. It's now ready to go to 120 grit and so on to finish it up.
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Now thats cheap....don't even want to buy sand paper! LOL Thats an excellent idea. I remember when I was a wee gaffer and money was tight. We would scrounge up small peices of wood and make boats and stuff out of them. We didn't have a saw, so we used the city sidewalk out front of the house to "grind" our wood to shape. It worked then, so should work now! As long as the cement is flat, what the heck!? H^^
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Now I never thought of that. Sounds like it worked well for you! The "finished product" looks good!
Big Bear
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Make up several sanding blocks.
I take wood 1/2" wide x 1 1/2 feet long glue my sandpaper to it and use that as a sanding block.
You can make up several grits, widths, grades ect..
Its the only way.