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- Any more sanding tips to help reduce swirls or pigtails?
Any more sanding tips to help reduce swirls or pigtails?
- Wipe off your work before you start and also between grits.
- Adjust your suction to closer to minimum - you don't want to suck the sander down into the work.
- Start your sander off the work surface and lift it off before turning it off.
- Sand in patterns - go side to side and then top to bottom so to speak. Go methodically and overlap your patterns.
- Use a raking light to check your progress - particularly at the end prior to applying finish.
- Let your sander do the work - don't apply more pressure than necessary to keep it on the surface - see #2.
- Check your sandpaper to make sure you don't get anything stuck on the paper which would create a lump.
- Check your Velcro on the backing pad for debris as well as on the back of the paper.