Choosing Between Foam and Film Abrasives

ideal um if it's a relatively flat part I would not use a half inch the problem the thing about half inch it's great for the profiles but you lose a lot of cut it's not nearly as aggressive as your 10 millimeter and your five millimeter will be in fact I would only recommend it for for profiles a lot of times Crown moldings is nice but you do lose a lot of cut because it's receding so much back into the foam whereas these are going to be a lot firmer a lot firmer and for us you know you want to firm a surface as you can get when you're sanding it's just it's a better platen it's a nice hard surface to sand on so that's definitely going to do better on on on something flat as far as cutting down the grain yeah when we're trying to eliminate grain especially like on old cabinets it's pretty popular to take oak cabinets um grain fill them sand them and then a lot of the customers don't even want them to have that profile the oak I mean I'm actually going to instead of a foam abrasive I'm using uh unida's film Tech and film Tech is something better for just really getting that Ultra flat surface yeah if you want to flatten out you still coat it is always going to be more aggressive and like you said that film Tech to me is I know I'll talk a lot about it but it's just my favorite material because it's just it's that perfect sweet spot you get a good finish like paper you get the longevity and durability of a cloth and it flat it stands really really flat and it's quick this is not going to cut as quick as a uh as film Tech will cut but I I don't know I think and we do still see a lot of film Tech used in between coats of finish I mean foam is great it's not always the the the perfect thing for it in a lot of case it is if I had to pick two things in in your industry it would be film tech for my cut down and all my in-between coats of finish would be with a with a sponge type product yeah so um there you have it they've got some pretty cool information