Thread: Norton Dry Ice ceramic power sanding discs.. first impression is

Originally Posted by Mr Brush

It's part of Cricket Australia's new "shock and awe" policy......England certainly won't be expecting THAT.

We're reading this - so it'll be no surprise for us now!

Having spotted this thread and serendipitously having come across a sample (albeit on a roll, not a power sanding disk) shortly thereafter, I thought I'd try it for myself.

All I can say is: it works very nicely for hand-sanding.

(Oh... and Ice Wine? I've definitely developed a fondness for it. We've been working our way through various vineyards around here, trying to work out what ones to ship home. Peller Estate's 2006 Vidal is leading by several lengths. )

Sweet! (cough).

In the thread where I Took a few sanding abrasives for a test run, my assessment of the Dry Ice was as follows:

On the how quickly they finish the job

Quick and aggressive, but loaded up chronically. However, surprisingly it had the best #400 that I tested, doing a good job of removing the #320 grit abrasions and also leaving minimal visible marks itself. The time taken to clean out the clogged abrasive was included in the overall times, which left it under performing despite its rapid rate of the abrasive cut.

Durability test

As good as any I tested of the #180

Didn't have any #120 in Dry Ice so can't compare to the really good performers there.

In the #80 test run the backing on the Dry Ice disk failed at the 40 min mark. It was the only disk backing to fail during any of the tests

Thanks for importing that info Neil.

Seems heat is the issue with these abrasives, hence the clogging and pad failure.