Understand Raw Wood Door Characteristics and Sander Selection

I was gonna be sanding a long wood door here something we don't run into very often but you have a different method of sanding a raw wood door that I've ever seen well not necessarily a different method but you use a different sander the five inch sander is sold at paint life Supply Co along with a three by four but I think um prior to this video you told me you would use this to sand this door yeah so Sherry would you just walk us through sanding a raw wood door and just talk about why you would use the 5 inch sander not the three by four yeah sure so with a raw wood it comes out of the white it's wide belt sanded right so as it goes through you've got this running the grain running with the sander but then this grain is running against the sander so we get what we call cross grain right we also you can see on here you got some drag marks so we need to take those out when they sell doors when the door A Door Shop either builds it or sell or they buy it out you know from a door supply company they let these guys set up when wood sits up it closes so it's not going to accept stain the way it would or paint the way it would if it was recently sanded so we need to open the wood back up and that's why we we sand it so why do I use a five inch well the five inch gives me a little bit more torque and it's also got that random pattern this guy like I told you in the previous video has a tendency to leave swirl marks because it's a direct drive I want to get that random pattern and the idea is to do as little sanding on raw wood as possible so the more you sand on raw wood the more likely you are to get swirls right so what what I would do is generally most wide belt Sanders they finishing out at about 180 or 220 right so we don't ever want to go too far back you can go 150 but I choose to go to 180 most of the time so I've got a 180 film Tech and I choose filmtech again because I like the finish of the film Tech okay right so you're not going to be using a half inch sponge open cell sponge or 10 millimeter five millimeter