How do you make your sand blocks?


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Hi, what do you use as sand blocks for fairing?
I watched some tutorials but they were all about wood working. Wonder if there is some adjustment specific for composites.
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Wood (btw, with or without pads)?
Foam? Xps would be ok
Commercial available? Ifound permagrit blocks fantastic but they only make the coarser grits.

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You can cast-in-place sanding blocks with some packing tape on your surface, some polyester filler (Bondo) to take the surface shape and a wood backer to hold on to...

I'm a big fan of the 3M yellow foam blocks and the Stickit paper too - the blocks are hard enough yet have some give.  Not cheap but a great system.

You can also glue acrylic sheet to softer foam to make a flexible-yet-hard block for curved surfaces.  You want to sand (fair) with something that takes the shape of the surface you want to achieve - but no more - so you hit the high spots but don't over-sand the low ones.




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Chris Rogers - 5/22/2020 6:02:13 PM
You can also cast-in-place sanding blocks with some packing tape on your surface, some polyester filler (Bondo) to take the surface shape and a wood backer to hold on to...

I'm a big fan of the 3M yellow foam blocks and the Stickit paper too - the blocks are hard enough yet have some give.  Not cheap but a great system.

You can also glue acrylic sheet to softer foam to make a flexible-yet-hard block for curved surfaces.  You want to sand (fair) with something that takes the shape of the surface you want to achieve - but no more - so you hit the high spots but don't over-sand the low ones.

Lot of ideas, thank you!

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mporta71 - 5 Years Ago
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Hanaldo - 5 Years Ago
             Thanks a lot!!
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Warren (Staff) - 5 Years Ago
             Thank you!
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scottracing - 5 Years Ago
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SleepingAwake - 5 Years Ago
                     Thank you, I will have a look at them!
mporta71 - 5 Years Ago
explorecomposites - 5 Years Ago
             Lot of ideas, thank you!
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