What electric sander should I buy?
Question:I want to paint over my existing kitchen cabinets (and some other furniture).and I absolutely dread hand sanding a bulk of these items.
What electric sander should I buy? I am absolutely new to this and don't know any difference between orbital sander or whatever. I just know that I don't want it to be too heavy or I might strip away all the wood.
Answers:
A belt sander is best to go through heavy paint or many layers. You can buy different grit sand belts from 60 (very rough) to 600 super smooth.
Orbital sanders are the next quickest.
Sheet sanders are for fine sanding of small areas.
For sanding the round parts, there are sanding pads that are like dish cleaning scrubbing pads.
A random orbital palm sander is a great choice. it completely breaks up the pattern of sanding to provide you with no worries of cross grain sanding. Make sure you don't go to a heavy grit if you wish to keep most of the wood. If you find that the detail work gets to be too much, use a zip strip type acid base to remove the paint and varnish, it makes stripping wood cabinets and furniture a breeze. Make sure you rinse them off, or the new paint will be bled through by sap, and small amounts of the former top coat left inside the wood
if money is a prob buy a good detail sander the ones with like a triangle head and velcro for the sand paper, it can do large areas and also get into small places OK good luck
Hey good Buddy---If you do not know what you are doin don't start. If you want to repaint the doos--wash it with dishwashing soap to remove the cooking greese. Let it dry thouroughly---Use a very couse steel wook and clean the doors. Clean up the mess and paint with Kiln primer and paint to finish. . You do not have to take the doors down. If you have contact paper on pressed wood door---your screwed---you must clean and recover with contact paper. Do not paint the inside of the cabinets. Use new shelf paper. If your smokers make sure you remove all the brown stain for the cigaretts--use Kiln primer--then paint to finish. Yes, paint it twice--the primer can be coloreed--does not have to be white. You know what is coming up next for honey doo's Cabinet counter tops and floor tile. Hey guy--sounds like your wife wants a new look---new furniture -- new car--- if you can avoid the kitchen ---best not fix anything in there. Another solutions is to go buy new doors.
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