It’s been about 15 years since I did my first at-home paint job. And I’m nonetheless listening to all about it. In all probability as a result of I primed and painted the automotive within the hooked up storage that backed as much as our household room. Each every so often, my spouse catches a whiff of one thing I’m portray outdoors and jogs my memory how I stuffed the home with the fumes of catalysts, reducers, and numerous different chemical substances that include doing paintwork.
That reminiscence sticks together with her to at the present time, however on the time I used to be engaged on the venture, I keep in mind her being extra upset by all of the mud I used to be monitoring into the home by the mud room between the storage and the toilet the place I cleaned up. Between physique filler, primer/surfacer, and finally single-stage urethane in BMW Hellrot (gentle pink), I spent hours and hours over the course of a number of weeks performing block sanding to get a passable end. And each sanding session meant cleansing up the sanding mud I’d created within the course of.
On the time, I might have killed for a greater approach to sand the physique with out coping with all of the mud. My father, who has been a lifelong woodworker, set his workshop with vacuum nozzles on nearly all his huge dust-generating machines – his desk noticed, router, planer, belt sander and others. Think about if I’d had a vacuum hose hooked up to sanding boards.
My needs have been answered, albeit too late for the BMW venture. However positively not too late for the Vary Rover I’m at present restoring. Eastwood not too long ago developed precisely the device I wanted within the type of the Eastwood Elite Contour DSB Dustless Sanding System. The inflexible blocks, out there in three completely different lengths, function perforated sanding surfaces that work with specifically made perforated sandpapers to permit sanding mud to circulate out to a vacuum cleaner connection behind the blocks. The hose connects to any commonplace store vacuum to catch as much as 95% of the mud created, leaving nearly nothing to brush up afterward.
In keeping with Eastwood’s R&D supervisor Mark Robidoux, the Contour DSB was developed particularly with the DIY physique employee in thoughts. Usually working in residence garages with out subtle air flow filtration in place, hobbyists (me included) can reap the benefits of dustless sanding blocks to spend extra time sanding and fewer time cleansing up the store. As a facet profit, the continual vacuum retains the sanding face from turning into loaded as rapidly, which means much less time cleansing or altering out paper.
The DSB base equipment contains an 11”-long block, greater than 12 toes of clear versatile vacuum hose and a hose adaptor to hook up with both 1.23” or 1.75” vacuum cleaner hoses. A 5” block and 16” block are additionally out there individually, however all three blocks are included within the DSB Grasp Package. The DSB sandpapers are offered individually in 40.5-foot rolls of 40-, 80-, 120-, 180-, 220-, 320-, and 400-grit papers with a PSA backing. And if you happen to get pulled into doing home tasks, the boards and papers are additionally nice for doing drywall work.
Once I finally get to priming, filling, and portray our Vary Rover venture, I intend put Eastwood’s dustless sanding blocks by their paces. They need to be a giant time saver, even when I not have to fret about monitoring mud into the home. Try the side-by-side demo video beneath to see what I imply.
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Eastwood Elite Contour DSB Dustless Sanding Block Grasp Package – Merchandise # 98038
