What is the best sandpaper for electric sander?
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But they didn’t say which sander it was - orbital, belt and if it has dust extraction or not. The mesh wont work so well without extraction through it --- as far as I know.
I use mirka mesh on a mirka hand system with extraction and it leaves almost Zero dust.
Oh yes. It will be the Bosch Universalsander 18v which has a delta and rectangular plate. Would this mirka mesh be suitable for keying paint?
The paper/mesh looks like it might be suitable but you will need to purchase a suitably sized Mirka pad saver. It is a sacrificial velcro interface pad that protects the original pad. If you don't use one, the heat transfer will ruin the original pad.
Those are cut to size to fit Mirka hand sander, you will have to further cut and waste some to fit your sander. You mas as well just buy the bosch ones that fit.
Mirka make a roll of 93mm wide Abranet which will give the OP 54 sheets for his rectangular base. It will cost about about £50+. A quid a sheet sounds expensive, but the bosch aluminium oxide sheets seem to work out at about 70p each. The OP will then need to factor in the cost of the pad saver. That said, I would recommend a pad saver regardless of the brand of abrasive used. In the past I have lent some of my sanders to friends and they have knackered the velcro on the sanding pad. They applied too much pressure. A replacement pad cost me £50. A pad saver would have cost £5 and protected the original pad.
I am fond of the better quality meshes such as Mirka's Abranet and the Festool Granat mesh. The latter I normally only use for sanding painted flat MDF sheets, the former, I normally use for hand sanding, particularly curved surfaces (other than sanding with the Handy sanders).
You are correct that Abranet works better on devices with dust extractors connected. I too have some of the Mirka Handy sanders (they are great). I have only used mesh papers on my random orbital sanders. I don't know how well they will work on orbital sanders, especially those without dust extraction.
I think without the extraction the mesh gets blocked easy and then doesn’t perform very well.
I never head of a pad protector but I have had to replace an orbital pad as the Velcro had worn out, quite entertaining using it as it would randomly throw off the sanding disks at high speed
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