Hints & Tips

 

The following hints and tips help you when working with BOSCH Delta Sanders.

 

Do not press too hard
Do not press the machine too hard onto the work piece. The tool's own weight is sufficient.

Do not press too hard

Especially smooth sanding
If you want to sand your wooden surface especially smooth, moisten the surface after every sanding run with a sponge or damp cloth. When the wood is dry, you can sand away the loose fibre ends that arise as a result of the moisture.

Especially smooth sanding

Remove sanding dust
Remove the sanding dust again and again from your work piece, then the surface will always be especially clean. Honey-soaked cloths, which can be bought at DIY stores and from specialist retailers, are ideal for this.

Remove sanding dust

Rustic effect
If you sand softwood along the grain, a light rustic effect occurs.

Rustic effect

Remove old paint
If you want to remove old paint quickly, then use coarse sanding paper and set a fast orbital stroke rate.

Remove old paint

Sanding paper grit
The lower the number of the paper grit, the more coarse the grit and the rougher the surface. The grit number states how many sanding particles are situated on one centimetre of sanding paper.

Sanding paper grit

Wood putty
You can mix collected wood dust with a fluid bonding material on cellulose basis and reuse it as wood putty (fluid wood). This can be used to repair dents or grooves in pieces of furniture, for example. Especially if you do not want to varnish the piece of furniture later on and the wood remains visible, self-made wood putty is ideal because it is the same colour as the wood. After the putty has hardened, you should carefully sand the area smooth.

Wood putty

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