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Perhaps what follows is known and been tried by others but I don't recall reading about it on the NG or hearing about it from others.

Yesterday I was working on a Norfolk Island Pine bowl that I had soaked and had a problem with the sanding discs instantly loading and becoming useless. Then I tried hand held Scotch-Brite pads. In order to try power-sanding I next cut the Scotch-Brite sheet into 2" squares and found that they held very well on the hook surface of the sanding disc . It worked so well that I cut up a bunch of squares of the various grits. It won't take the place of regular sanding but in this "Load-up" situations it was a big help. I found squares worked just fine - no need to take the extra time to make rounds.

Bob Ivey Northwest Woodturners Lake Oswego, Oregon

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Bob Ivey
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Biggest drawback is the rapid ripping of the pad with dry wood. Then you find that you have been sanding with the velcro here and there.

Keep a watchful eye.

There's a commercial product out there for the Power Lock system based on the same principle.

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George

Hi Bob, Good idea, new or not. I don't know about that Oregon NIP (G), but if the soak was in LDD, wet sanding with water (or dilute LDD) might help to prevent loading. I offer a lot of anecdotal misinformation here, but I find that although abrasives wet with water actually do load, they continue to abraid. YMMV.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

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Arch

Something I thought of yesterday while at the BORG store. I looked at the drywall sanding sheets and thought they would not load up at all either. Although I have not tried it maybe someone else has?

Jimbo

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Jimbo

I have used the drywall sanding sheets with PEG treated wood. They work great. Should probably work well with LDD.

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Ralph

I've got this vision in my head of the toilet bowl commercial, ya know, scrubbing bubbles.

Dave in Fairfax

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Dave in Fairfax

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