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Surface Preparation: Sanding

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What happens here

Utilize an Ekasan 3x4 orbital sander to effectively remove chipping paint and smooth rough areas. The painter demonstrates sanding both the horizontal top rail and the vertical spindles, even using foam pads on the sander to conform to the rounder spindle shapes. He also sands hard-to-reach areas, like the bottom rails and corners, using various grits (starting with 80-grit) and pads to efficiently prepare the entire railing surface for painting, noting that power sanding is significantly faster than hand sanding.

Goal: Remove loose paint, rust, and smooth out imperfections on the railing.

Tools and materials

  • Ekasan 3x4 Sander Ekasan — Sanding and smoothing the railing surface
  • Foam Sanding Pads — To conform to and sand the rounded spindles of the railing more effectively
  • Safety Glasses — Protecting eyes from sanding debris
  • Safety Gloves — Protecting hands during sanding
  • Sanding Pads — Abrasive material for the sander to remove paint and rust

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tuned for this video so i'm just sanding i've got a little bit of just a little bit of rust on here i got a lot of chips i just want to smooth out the edges of these chips so you don't see them once we paint this this is a pretty small hand railing so i'm might i have the option of spraying it with an airless sprayer an hvop sprayer or just rolling it with a four inch roller like a weenie roller and i think probably the time to set up an hvlp sprayer would which is going to cause a lot less overspray um i could probably just roll this you know just as fast and not have to deal with all the cleanup and and possibilities overspray at a commercial site so i think i'm just going to roll it with some weenie rollers so [Music] gonna be doing this this is going downstairs to the basement of this business and i believe what's happening is they keep hitting the railing with boxes and stuff because this is where they store stuff so we want to put something on here that's extremely durable resistant to chipping and also resistant to rust so i'm just using an ekasan 3x4 sander makes it very fast and efficient sanding something like this versus just doing it by hand and i've got multiple different types of pads i've got foam pads right here like 10 ml different size foam pads that i can be using and the foam pads make it so it forms around your spindles a lot easier i do keep uh i just keep a bag right here my tool bag that has pads in it and i can try different pads if i want see which ones are going to work most effectively on the coating that i have on here now using the got an 80 grit pad right here on a pad saver i'm going to give this i want something a little more aggressive than what i got right now so far this little sand faster this one here works a lot faster here so what's working uh the ones i've tested now the one that's working the best is my pad saver right here that way i don't wear through mess up my pad so i've got a pad saver with 80 grit ekaselk ekka silk paper on here 3x4 paper and this is working just like i want it going pretty fast smoothing out these chips really well not a lot of rust so i don't have to worry about rust and like the last iron fence i did i couldn't get underneath the bottom here i can actually get under the bottom this is just cruising right along sanding there's not let's say once again there's not a lot of hard any rust at all so this i do got some bare metal so this might be a good option to use rust-oleum on this could…

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