Any one have one of these pen-sanders?
Can you tell me your opinion of them are they a useful tool.
Thanks Allan
Can you tell me your opinion of them are they a useful tool.
Thanks Allan
Hallo Allan,
My personal opinion - usefull for some special areas - I am using it and I am happy with it
Take a look at this post in my Salamandre building log
Hope this is helping .....
You could also get an electric toothbrush and attach a sanding pad to it. Just as effective.
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Thanks Uwe for the reply am thinking about one, I guess its useful in certain circumstances.
Good idea about cutting your own sanding pads.
Allan
Now that's an idea I am pretty sure I have an old electric toothbrush around somewhere it's worth a try might be a cost free solution.
Will report back if I can locate it.
Thanks Brian
Allan
I have one, useful for tight spots and difficult angles.... Be careful though, I found it to sand much more aggressively than I had imagined.
I have one, used it a couple of times. is it worth the cost (no). I NOT have I found a need for it that other sanding cant do. ( not yet). May be usefull in non kit builds, but it is not a priority tool. The tooth brush approach would be better.
I've been using the electric toothbrush for about 10 yrs or more, my wife throws it in the trash basket and I grab it, clean it up, then cut the bristles off down to the pad and I'm ready to go. It's off to Wally Worlds cosmetic dept. where I pick up the hard foam she uses to keep her toes apart while she paints them. Now it's back home to the garage and cut the foam to the shape I want, contact cement it to the toothbrush, then cut a piece of sandpaper to the shape and glue it on with rubber cement, and, voila, we have a new custom miniature sander. I usually have at least a half dozen kicking around at any given time and they cost me next to nothing, so don't throw out that electric toothbrush. try it.
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I have one and use all the time for shaping hull planking The downside is the sanding pads them selves don't last very long......
I have found that powered sanding of any type is often way more helpful than hand sanding. But that comes from my own frustration with the slowness of hand sanding. I hate to take too much time to sand and file so if I can speed up that process I go for it. I don’t have one...yet...and the electric tooth brush idea is a keeper...
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I've got one - I use it often but the pads you get with it are rubbish. I spent a morning putting lines of double sided tape on various grades of sandpaper and then cutting out lots of the pad shapes - triangles, squares, etc. The most annoying thing is the pen and transformer are seperate purchases
Me too. I use a Wecheer rotary tool. And I use Dremel sanding disks with it to help shape planking rather than hand sanding. Works really well and is a time saver!
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