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Spent 2 hours sanding a fender only to realize I was using 80 grit the whole time
Was fighting with deep scratches that wouldn't come out, felt like an idiot when I finally checked the paper. Anybody else have a 'check your grit' moment that saved them a ton of time?
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wyatt86219d ago
80 grit has its place though. If you're trying to knock down orange peel or heavy clear coat, that aggressive cut saves a ton of time compared to starting with 120. The trick is knowing when to step up to the finer grits and not staying on 80 for the whole job. Sounds like you were doing paint work not wood, so 80 grit was doing exactly what it needed to do for the scratches, you just needed to move to 120 and 220 after the deep stuff was flat. A lot of guys run into trouble because they think going straight to fine grit saves time, but it just makes the job take twice as long.
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