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Examining Filmtek and Ekasilk Abrasives

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Unboxing The Uneeda Ekasand Sander from Paint Life Supply Co.

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Ekasilk 3x4 Abrasives — Flat sanding and between-coat sanding (paper-backed)
  • Filmtek 3x4 Abrasives — Sanding and paint stripping on wood surfaces (plastic-backed)

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and get rid of the trash out of the way we all want to see what's in this box because this is the best sander there is on the planet for uh sanding cabinets doing cabinet refinishing and painting so in the box we've got um here's one little box right here and we'll find out what's in the box and it doesn't say anything on the outside of the box so we'll just look inside the box ah so we got all kinds of abrasives here so that's why it doesn't say what's on on the outside of the box because it's a mixture so we do have some film tech so film tech is a plastic abrasive right here so it's a flat plastic abrasive we got um 10 each of the 80 grit 80 grit is good for doing any type of stripping so if you need to strip paint off of cabinets if you're doing refinishing an 80 grit is something that you're going to want to have there's 180 grit um so 180 grit is kind of like in between there's a lot of things you can use it for they got ecka storm so echostorm is they're flat sandpaper that's actually paper and not plastic so the blue the film tech is plastic and it's less likely to rip or tear it's going to last a lot longer the paper it cuts absolutely amazing so if you're doing any type of stripping the paper echo sort of abrasive is great so we got 10 each of the 180 grit 120 grit we've got 10 each of 120 grit we've got um 80 grit great for stripping 150 grit so you have a lot of different grits because you're gonna you possibly could be doing a lot of different things 120 grit film tech 150 grit film tech now we've got another box let's check out what's in this box this one is a very fine super fine eka silk so these are flat abrasives for any type of any type of flat sanding any type of stripping you want to have flat abrasives if you're trying to get rid of wood grain stuff like that you definitely want to be using flat abrasives when you're sanding in between coats you want to probably be using a flat abrasive are you enjoying the video

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