lwalden
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UPDATE 11.21.2006
Everybody's packages were shipped this morning. Please let me know when you've received yours, so I can check you off my list. For most of you, I ended up cutting the 16.5" lengths in half in order to get it to fit the packaging better. Also, for those of you who have not used Abranet before, once you've had a chance to try it please post feedback on how it compares with what you have been using. Thanks, everyone, and have a great Thanksgiving!!
UPDATE 11/14/2006Abranet did need to ship from the warehouse, but I should still have it by this Friday, and hope to get it turned around either Saturday or Monday.
11/10/2006 Order placed this afternoon.....they needed to check and see if they had everything we ordered in stock, and will e-mail me results. Any shortage would be turned around in their weekly order. Will post status as I learn more.
Personal request- will those of you who have never used this before go back and indicate such in your post, and then follow-up after use with your opinion of this product, compared to what you've been using? I've not used much other than this and micromesh, and would be very interested in hearing if you're using something you feel is better.
UPDATE 11/9/2006
Sorry for the delay with an update- rejuggling 2007 budget numbers has had me tied up. I'm hoping to insert info from a spreadsheet I ran with volumes and associated costs. I tried to list everyone in the sequence by which they responded with the requested format.
As it stands, 80 grit would be ordered in the 8" length, so for those requesting I doubled your designated amount at the 16.5" length. Some in the 180 and 240 grits would also end up with 8" lengths in order to round us to blocks of 50. The spreadsheet will show at the bottom the cost per sheet, as well as a total by member to the right of the sheet. The shipping assumes domestic delivery via USPS. International, Hold off on paypal payment until I can confirm actual shipping charges, and I'll e-mail you with options and amounts. Please e-mail me if anyone has questions-and thanks for your patience.
I realize this is not the best quality- I'll be e-mailing each individual with their total, please compare to this list and let me know if you have any questions. If you agree, paypal payment should be sent to lwalden(@)tibsite.com (please strip the parantheses from either side of the @ sign)THIS BULK BUY WILL CLOSE AT NOON CST< FRIDAY THE 10TH!!!!
UPDATE 11.06.2006
Looks like we have a fair amount of interest, so we'll move forward with this. I'd like to get the order placed this Friday afternoon, so please reply with firm numbers as soon as possible. First consideration- these are only sold in packs of 50 sheets per grit..... however, they also have shorter lengths than the 16.5" available. Here's how this calculates out- all sheets are 2.75" wide, and the available lengths are 5", 8", or 16.25". Cost per sq inch is .039 on the 5", .032 on the 8", and .025 on the 16.5" sheets (compared to the .076 per sq inch on the PSI pack). Obviously, best price is on the 16.5" sheets. When adjusted for paypal fees and the shipping to me, the 16.5" sheets will be $1.19 each. Earliest orders will be given preference on filling the longer sheets in each grit, rounded to 50. In other words, if we end up with orders for 127 sheets of the 180 grit, the first 100 would be in two groups of 50, the next 25 would end up in a group of 50 of the 8", and the last 2 would not be filled. In going to the 8" sheets, those would end up at .76 per sheet. I'll price my order in at the last, so it will be at the higher price, and hopefully most will get the larger discount. I'm guessing shipping will be in the $3.00 range. I'd prefer Paypal, given the quick turnaround, but will accept payment via check as well. Please place your order as number of sheets in the following format: (assumes ordering 4 of each grit)
080 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
120 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
180 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
240 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
320 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
400 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
And yes, you can order more or less of different grits (someone brought this up, and the 320 and 400 grits do tend to wear out a little quicker than the lower grits).
I'll traveling the rest of today and tomorrow, so will start a running total when I get back Wednesday. Thanks, everyone.
PSI sells a package of ABRANET sanding sheets for $10.75. I'm hooked on these- they're great. You get 2 each of 120, 180, 240, 320, and 400 grit, in a 2 3/4" by 5" size. These things last for quite a while- I can get 20 to 50 pens out of each set of the small sizes, depending on how hard the material I'm sanding is. That runs $10.45, which comes out to $0.076 per square inch. Buying from BTIsupply, you can get the various grits, in 2 3/4" by 16 1/4", for $.024615 a square inch, less than 1/3 of the cost. That's at a volume of 50 sheets for any one grit. Question- is anyone interested in splitting an order of this? at the 50 sheet needed to get this much of a discount, it's 54.99 for each grit.... and I'm not needing $250.00 worth of sanding screen for the 5 grits. They also carry 80, 100, 150, and 220, but I've been happy with the sequence of the 5 grits in the PSI package. At any rate, wanted to test the interest level. I can likely take half of a minimum order of 50 sheets in each of the 5 grits mentioned- any one else interested? if so, please give some idea of how many sheets in each grit you might want- base price would be 1.10 per 2 3/4 by 16 1/4 sheet, and I'd ask that we try to keep the numbers even for each grit (i.e.,5 of each or 3 of each, rather than 2 of the 120, 4 of the 180, 5 of the 240, and 1 320). If enough interest, I'll try to come up with numbers adjusted for shipping and paypal fees. Thanks
Everybody's packages were shipped this morning. Please let me know when you've received yours, so I can check you off my list. For most of you, I ended up cutting the 16.5" lengths in half in order to get it to fit the packaging better. Also, for those of you who have not used Abranet before, once you've had a chance to try it please post feedback on how it compares with what you have been using. Thanks, everyone, and have a great Thanksgiving!!
UPDATE 11/14/2006Abranet did need to ship from the warehouse, but I should still have it by this Friday, and hope to get it turned around either Saturday or Monday.
11/10/2006 Order placed this afternoon.....they needed to check and see if they had everything we ordered in stock, and will e-mail me results. Any shortage would be turned around in their weekly order. Will post status as I learn more.
Personal request- will those of you who have never used this before go back and indicate such in your post, and then follow-up after use with your opinion of this product, compared to what you've been using? I've not used much other than this and micromesh, and would be very interested in hearing if you're using something you feel is better.
UPDATE 11/9/2006
Sorry for the delay with an update- rejuggling 2007 budget numbers has had me tied up. I'm hoping to insert info from a spreadsheet I ran with volumes and associated costs. I tried to list everyone in the sequence by which they responded with the requested format.
As it stands, 80 grit would be ordered in the 8" length, so for those requesting I doubled your designated amount at the 16.5" length. Some in the 180 and 240 grits would also end up with 8" lengths in order to round us to blocks of 50. The spreadsheet will show at the bottom the cost per sheet, as well as a total by member to the right of the sheet. The shipping assumes domestic delivery via USPS. International, Hold off on paypal payment until I can confirm actual shipping charges, and I'll e-mail you with options and amounts. Please e-mail me if anyone has questions-and thanks for your patience.
I realize this is not the best quality- I'll be e-mailing each individual with their total, please compare to this list and let me know if you have any questions. If you agree, paypal payment should be sent to lwalden(@)tibsite.com (please strip the parantheses from either side of the @ sign)THIS BULK BUY WILL CLOSE AT NOON CST< FRIDAY THE 10TH!!!!
UPDATE 11.06.2006
Looks like we have a fair amount of interest, so we'll move forward with this. I'd like to get the order placed this Friday afternoon, so please reply with firm numbers as soon as possible. First consideration- these are only sold in packs of 50 sheets per grit..... however, they also have shorter lengths than the 16.5" available. Here's how this calculates out- all sheets are 2.75" wide, and the available lengths are 5", 8", or 16.25". Cost per sq inch is .039 on the 5", .032 on the 8", and .025 on the 16.5" sheets (compared to the .076 per sq inch on the PSI pack). Obviously, best price is on the 16.5" sheets. When adjusted for paypal fees and the shipping to me, the 16.5" sheets will be $1.19 each. Earliest orders will be given preference on filling the longer sheets in each grit, rounded to 50. In other words, if we end up with orders for 127 sheets of the 180 grit, the first 100 would be in two groups of 50, the next 25 would end up in a group of 50 of the 8", and the last 2 would not be filled. In going to the 8" sheets, those would end up at .76 per sheet. I'll price my order in at the last, so it will be at the higher price, and hopefully most will get the larger discount. I'm guessing shipping will be in the $3.00 range. I'd prefer Paypal, given the quick turnaround, but will accept payment via check as well. Please place your order as number of sheets in the following format: (assumes ordering 4 of each grit)
080 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
120 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
180 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
240 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
320 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
400 Grit- 9A-151-080 #of sheets = 4
And yes, you can order more or less of different grits (someone brought this up, and the 320 and 400 grits do tend to wear out a little quicker than the lower grits).
I'll traveling the rest of today and tomorrow, so will start a running total when I get back Wednesday. Thanks, everyone.
PSI sells a package of ABRANET sanding sheets for $10.75. I'm hooked on these- they're great. You get 2 each of 120, 180, 240, 320, and 400 grit, in a 2 3/4" by 5" size. These things last for quite a while- I can get 20 to 50 pens out of each set of the small sizes, depending on how hard the material I'm sanding is. That runs $10.45, which comes out to $0.076 per square inch. Buying from BTIsupply, you can get the various grits, in 2 3/4" by 16 1/4", for $.024615 a square inch, less than 1/3 of the cost. That's at a volume of 50 sheets for any one grit. Question- is anyone interested in splitting an order of this? at the 50 sheet needed to get this much of a discount, it's 54.99 for each grit.... and I'm not needing $250.00 worth of sanding screen for the 5 grits. They also carry 80, 100, 150, and 220, but I've been happy with the sequence of the 5 grits in the PSI package. At any rate, wanted to test the interest level. I can likely take half of a minimum order of 50 sheets in each of the 5 grits mentioned- any one else interested? if so, please give some idea of how many sheets in each grit you might want- base price would be 1.10 per 2 3/4 by 16 1/4 sheet, and I'd ask that we try to keep the numbers even for each grit (i.e.,5 of each or 3 of each, rather than 2 of the 120, 4 of the 180, 5 of the 240, and 1 320). If enough interest, I'll try to come up with numbers adjusted for shipping and paypal fees. Thanks
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