[TheForge] An abrasive product to consider?

[Mike Spencer]

I wrote:

mds> A 3M Scotch Brite-like product called (IIRC) Clean'n'Strip is
mds> super.
mds> [snip]
mds> 3M is, at least in Nova Scotia, a bastard to deal with...
mds> [snip]
mds> A very nearly identical product is available from Walter for less
mds> money.  Still not cheap but I wouldn't be without it.

and Dave Smucker <davesmucker at hotmail.com> replied: 

> maybe a call to Lee Valley and they might carry them for you.  I
> don't find them on their site now but they are always adding things...

I've switched to the Walter variant for which there is a local dealer.
I don't know if Walter makes the finer grits but the coarse black
discs are what I find so useful.

> ...and it is something woodworker could use too.

Yes.  Because of the open mesh, they cut through grease, old paint,
polymer scum etc. without clogging the way surface-coated abrasives
do.

Not to scorn Lee Valley.  They came up with a tomato pulper way, way
better that the old Foley Food Mill we'd used for years.  (We do 2 or
3 bushels every year.)  And they had a set of stones & burrs that fit
the old string-belt driven dental drill I lucked on to -- smaller
shank than easily found Dremel and larger shank than modern dental
drills.  Oh, and 2B pencils. The standard pencil in Canada seems to be
HB.

Tnx,
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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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