Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:53 pm Post subject: They now have 4000grit wet/dry sand paper
So I wanted some 1000 grit for a project and that means basically automotive supply houses. I wanted at the very least 9inx11in sheets rolls would have been even better. So while looking around in the body area I see of all tings 4000 grit. I have no interest in this since I use a buffing a wheel but I thought it was interesting they would market a 4000 grit to DIY's in sheets sized for a vibrating sander. It felt like soft clay. It would be very useful for someone with out a buffing wheel though. _________________ The only easy day was yesterday!
Have I got news for you:
The earth is not a flat disk but round (well, more or less)...
Ultra fine 4000-12000 grit paper has been around for a VERY long time and is mostly used for shaping & polishing lenses and glass. For sale at the 3M shop.
Paper above 1200/2000 grit is pretty much useless for us, because (soft) brass clogs it up quickly.
Ordinary polishing compounds are far more effective in our "territory".
So, what else is new?
Edit, because I wanted to get rid of a typo (hint, hint).
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Why is this in the horns forum? What'cha workin on Cap?
+1 to Maarten. I think the much finer paper won't do you a whole lot of good. I used to be very close to another member here and when I'd hang out at his house we'd tinker with horns and mouthpieces.. maybe that grit would be good for smoothing out throats after drilling.
What else is new? People hating on Capt. Kirk.. OH WAIT
Trumpetgirl, you've already spoken your peace about kirk like... 3 times.. just leave him be and let him ramble incessantly about things he finds fascinating. It's not hurting you, is it? _________________ (List horns here)
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:46 am Post subject:
AJCarter wrote:
Why is this in the horns forum? What'cha workin on Cap?
+1 to Maarten. I think the much finer paper won't do you a whole lot of good. I used to be very close to another member here and when I'd hang out at his house we'd tinker with horns and mouthpieces.. maybe that grit would be good for smoothing out throats after drilling.
What else is new? People hating on Capt. Kirk.. OH WAIT
Trumpetgirl, you've already spoken your peace about kirk like... 3 times.. just leave him be and let him ramble incessantly about things he finds fascinating. It's not hurting you, is it?
Many posters around here choose to take the safe/easy route just to see their postings...
The ultrafine grits have indeed been around for a good while. I occasionally use stuff in the 8000-and-up range when polishing turned plastics, but they're not very useful otherwise. _________________ Vintage Olds & Reynolds & Selmers galore
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Trumpetgirl, you've already spoken your peace about kirk like... 3 times.. just leave him be and let him ramble incessantly about things he finds fascinating. It's not hurting you, is it?
Until his bumbling and rambling is off of this website I will not. Get over it. I've decided to take a stand against his crap.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject:
I'm on Kirk's side. He's doing what he wants to do.
Why should he be driven off the forum for asking what seem like stupid questions? If anybody's driven me away from this forum for more than the occasional question it's not Kirk, it's all the Kirk haters.
I honestly don't care if I get flamed for this or not. People deserve respect. _________________ Hi, my name is David and I'm a trumpetaholic.
Until his bumbling and rambling is off of this website I will not. Get over it. I've decided to take a stand against his crap.
Then leave. No one's forcing you to stay here. Do you want to reap the benefits of what people have to say, or be everybody's mommy? _________________ Jeff Mason
I'm on Kirk's side. He's doing what he wants to do.
Why should he be driven off the forum for asking what seem like stupid questions? If anybody's driven me away from this forum for more than the occasional question it's not Kirk, it's all the Kirk haters.
I honestly don't care if I get flamed for this or not. People deserve respect.
He is doing what he wants to do, I am doing what I want to do. Please be respectful of me doing what I want to do.
I have no doubt it was been around but not in automotive supply houses in the body section. Keep in mind their is not a lot of high end optical glass in a car that needs polishing.
Also keep in mind it was pre-cut to go on a vibrating sander's of the sort only DIY people would own usually for wood working.
Normally on a car if you need anything finer then 1000-2000 grit wet day you would use a buffing well and either 3M Fast Cut or 3M Safe Cut liquid buffing compounds.
So while the earth is not flat it is not a common site at AutoZone,Carquest,NAPA,O'Rilleys(sp) etc........I can tell you my local Super Walmart and Home Depot had nothing like but they did have versions of 3M's Fast Cut and Safe Cut remarked in smaller containers and with different marketing on the can's to appeal to DIY people.
I use .5 Micron water based diamond paste for lapping valves but I do not buy it at AutoZone or Walmart. If I say such a specialized product outside of it's main market at Walmart or a place like AutoZone I would report it hear as well! Why? Because it would be news worth for those that might want or need some.
The idea of my post was so that those that do not own buffing wheels and all kinds of blocks of abrasive would have an alternative to purchasing things they might no use often. If someone worked their way up the various grits now on the market one could polish a horn to a masterful finish at home with no tools, no long rolls of thin felt for raging and no need to track down abrasives and such.
So you took what was meant as a helpful informative post and turned it on a chance to spew hate. Way to go what a big man you must be with such fantastic charcter traits. True nobility of heart and such an accepting, warm, loving mind!!! LOL
Do keep in mind that Science is the second ruling thing in my life just after my religious belief's. I can quote science the way some quote the Bible. So I a well aware that Eratosthenes of Cyrene long before Europeans discovered the Earth was not flat new that. He calculated the circumference of the earth with out leaving his home with just mathematical deduction. He was off by 2%......He had to know the world was not flat before he started since flat objects have no circumference...LOL
If you wanted to use your malice some place of usefulness directing it at all the OEM trumpet makers that still build trumpets in the same fashion they have for over 100 years would be worth while! I am sure some of them do not know that the earth is not flat. LOL _________________ The only easy day was yesterday!
John, stop playing the sympathetic, eternally misunderstood victim.
It's been suggested many times before, change the style, content and general quality of your posts, or simply accept the responses you provoke (that last word being the key one in this reply).
In principal I couldn't agree more, but in my book "respect" can be earned but lost too.
I'm not justifying any behaviour here (not even my own), but still...
_________________ -fred
Lots of horns available to try and buy (or just try) in the Florida Treasure Coast area (Especially Kanstul trumpets) - PM if you'd like to stop by.
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It bothers me the way that he talks to a professional trumpet player. I guess he doesn't want a job playing. Scary small music world that we live in...
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:38 am Post subject:
trumpetgirl68 wrote:
davidkoch wrote:
I'm on Kirk's side. He's doing what he wants to do.
Why should he be driven off the forum for asking what seem like stupid questions? If anybody's driven me away from this forum for more than the occasional question it's not Kirk, it's all the Kirk haters.
I honestly don't care if I get flamed for this or not. People deserve respect.
He is doing what he wants to do, I am doing what I want to do. Please be respectful of me doing what I want to do.
In 18 posts you have accrued a level of enmity Kirk in thousands hasn't. Good going TG68!
Respect has zip to do with it. Where's YOUR positive contribution to the trumpet world?
And Kirk - perhaps those baby-butt-smooth grits would be handy for polishing headlamp lenses and reflectors. _________________ veery715
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