Sandpapers / Glasspapers – Types and Their Uses

admin | December 18, 2009

The term ’sandpaper’ is used these days to cover abrasive grit on flexible backing sheets used to smooth many types of material. True ’sandpaper’ (i.e. backing paper covered with grains of sand) is no longer available commercially but has been replaced by backing sheet covered with glass, aluminium oxide, silicon carbide, garnet or other specialist [...]