Introduction to Abrasive Types

all right today I'm here with Curtis Hicks from Unida Curtis has been in the business for over 20 years abrasive business and I want you know Curtis just you know to walk us through give us a little bit of um some tips and tricks you know what races we should be doing and so I think you're going to talk about um cloth paper and film and kind of walk us through that and give us some advice on what we should be using so we got some samples and um just give us a little bit of your background too Curtis yeah well I've been in the abrasive business for 30 years um started out encoded which this is considered coded uh then I went for a couple years into the shape of wheel business which it all ties in shape of oils are like a a fiber type wheel that will mold and actually start shaping to a product like it's big in where they're manufacturing trim and stuff like that they're feeding this in its shapes and Sands that and then 20 years ago I uh went to work with you native so I've been here 20 years now and that got me back into the decoded aspect of the business we have cloth paper and film and you know um so we got film Tech I'm from Anita we've got echostorm and I'm not sure what the cloth is called but can you just um give our viewers just a little bit of advice and um kind of some technical background about these three