...anyone got any good ideas about the best way to sand the inside of the radiused corners on the back of my NART Spider? It's the curved inside of a cone, but it ends at the flat back of the car, not in open space, so you have to sand _round_ it, not up and down the "slope"... Stick some sandpaper around some appropriate-diameter dowel and twirl it in my fingers is the best I've come up with so far, but I don't HAVE the dowel, so before I buy some, anyone got a better idea?
bestest,
M.
Sanding inside a radiused corner...
Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
Use up some spare Milliput, to make the shape you need?
You'll be able to re-use it and, if clever, might be able to make it compatible with your Dremel.
REgards,
Bruce
You'll be able to re-use it and, if clever, might be able to make it compatible with your Dremel.
REgards,
Bruce
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Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
Can you simply wrap a longer piece of sandpaper tightly into a 'rod' and do it ? The sandpaper will want to unroll and thus provides some outward pressure to aid in sanding. I generally use a heavier grade just to get some initial cutting done, then revert to finer grades.
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Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
You can often carve a piece of pencil eraser to a suitable shape, and attach wet and dry to it with double sided tape or spraymount adhesive.
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Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
thought this was handy (via another site)
towards the end it gives an inner radius example.
http://www.centennialipms.org/FillingWithoutSanding.pdf;
towards the end it gives an inner radius example.
http://www.centennialipms.org/FillingWithoutSanding.pdf;
Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
I stick abrasive to old paint brush handles. When I was at Southern Expo I had a brief look at these plastic sanding needles (scroll down). Flory Models did a similar product but Phil seems to have discontinued them.
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Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
I have some of those sanding needles - basically, they are bits of sharpened sprue with abrasive stuck to them. They are useful, but the abrasive wears off pretty quickly.
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Re: Sanding inside a radiused corner...
Yes, I looked at them also and once I figured out that one could not keep sharpening them as they wore out, I walked away from the vendor ...
I have some small tapered round files that seem to work fine ... I have them in small and tiny versions, usually come in one of those 10-12 piece sets.
There are also files known as 'riffler' that can work inside things. Here's a link to Micro-Mark for a picture http://www.micromark.com/10-piece-riffl ... ,6789.html;
I have some small tapered round files that seem to work fine ... I have them in small and tiny versions, usually come in one of those 10-12 piece sets.
There are also files known as 'riffler' that can work inside things. Here's a link to Micro-Mark for a picture http://www.micromark.com/10-piece-riffl ... ,6789.html;
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