Attention: Sandpaper sellers and manufacturers

[randyrls]

[RANT]
How can you manufacture sandpaper without putting the Grit on the backing of the Sandpaper??!!

I'm talking about the roll/strips sold many places.

I got some 12" sandpaper disks from Shopsmith. Nary a word on the back of the sandpaper.
[/RANT]

 

[MichaelD]

Apparently I'm not the only one. Just been living in silent frustration.

 

[triw51]

I have the same problem I have gotten in the habit of writing with a marker the grit when I tear a piece off.

 

[low_48]

They do put it on, but they put it on huge wide rolls. Narrow strips and discs are cut from these huge rolls, and would require almost constant printing to get each piece to have the information on it.

 

[Wood Butcher]

Or, it's the really cheap stuff from Chinatown. I used to sell for Klingspor and ran into these products in the industrial market. They would get one order then the customer learned a lesson.
WB

 

[kovalcik]

For the rolls, I push on the middle a little to make it slightly cone shaped, then color code the edge with a sharpie.

 

[dogcatcher]

My rack holds 8 different grits, each section has the grit and a number assigned to it, 1 through 8. As I tear off a piece I number the back side of the piece. All the extra illegitimate sizes that are in another rack get the grit written on them when I tear those off. I keep the current pieces I use in order in one stack, when I sand I start with the lowest number and go through the pile top through bottom.

If a pieces needs replacing I throw the old away and add the new in the stack with a number on it. Sometimes the pile gets dropped, easy to reorganize by the numbers. When finished with sanding I have a heavy duty clip to hold them, again in order. I have been using this method for about 35 years, it works better than any other I have seen.