fitzo
Well-Known Member
I had a significant stock of 12-15 year old belts in the shop from before I got sick. Since I re-started the shop I've lost about 8 dozen belts to aged seams. Not unexpected. I have a heckuva bin of abrasives for hand sanding now. 
I subsequently purchased just a scattering of belts a friend directed me to, to test out new abrasives. Unfortunately, when I received them, more than half were "P" graded abrasives and not the grits I'd wanted. I had forgotten that Euro belts were P graded and the supplier didn't mention it anywhere. On one of the belts one could make out a P if one blew up the pic, in retrospect.
To me, this shouldn't have to be. Accurate listings would've prevented it, as I know the difference.
I tried to start a thread about this on a different forum, and had good intentions, but a couple fanbois chose to intentionally misunderstand in the way of today's interwebs and I stood up to their crap, so the thread got killed by a little weasel.
My bottom line here is twofold and nothing more:
1) Encourage your suppliers to "accurize" their listings. That'll help everybody.
2) Get folks that don't know to understand that the P800 belt in their hand isn't the equivalent of an American 800 (it's 400), and they need to know the difference to correctly sequence their belts.
So, if any suppliers happen to read this, I really beg you to go through your listings and make sure all the "P" abrasives are listed as such. You'll surely get all my business. Thank you for your consideration.
Hope this thread didn't rub anyone the wrong way. Well, maybe the little weasel, but he doesn't come here.
I subsequently purchased just a scattering of belts a friend directed me to, to test out new abrasives. Unfortunately, when I received them, more than half were "P" graded abrasives and not the grits I'd wanted. I had forgotten that Euro belts were P graded and the supplier didn't mention it anywhere. On one of the belts one could make out a P if one blew up the pic, in retrospect.
To me, this shouldn't have to be. Accurate listings would've prevented it, as I know the difference.
I tried to start a thread about this on a different forum, and had good intentions, but a couple fanbois chose to intentionally misunderstand in the way of today's interwebs and I stood up to their crap, so the thread got killed by a little weasel.
My bottom line here is twofold and nothing more:
1) Encourage your suppliers to "accurize" their listings. That'll help everybody.
2) Get folks that don't know to understand that the P800 belt in their hand isn't the equivalent of an American 800 (it's 400), and they need to know the difference to correctly sequence their belts.
So, if any suppliers happen to read this
, I really beg you to go through your listings and make sure all the "P" abrasives are listed as such. You'll surely get all my business. Thank you for your consideration.Hope this thread didn't rub anyone the wrong way. Well, maybe the little weasel, but he doesn't come here.
