Harbor Freight Sandpaper opinions

[57plymouth]

Looking to restock my supply of general purpose sandpaper. This is stuff for my poor woodworking, occasional rust removal, etc. I generally use 3M or Klingspor for bodywork on cars. Looking for input on the cheap sandpaper from Haror Freight. Is it halfway good? I do not expect it to compete with 3M, Norton, Klingspor, etc. Just some paper I can keep around for general use. Thinking of the usual grits; 80, 100, 150, 200, sanding sponges, belts for the belt sander, etc.

 

[lolaetype]

The stuff I bought was rubbish, especially the wet/dry. It all w ears very quickly and the paper backing was weak. That was several years ago though, it may be better now.

 

[PugetDude]

Sandpaper sheets are the worst thing you can buy at HF.

 

[Shiftless]

Sandpaper sheets are the worst thing you can buy at HF.

Ha ha
I once used a piece of that stuff that was laying around. (I didn’t buy it)
Anybody else who has will not doubt agree with you. It’s ****!

I bet guys have lots of entrants for “the worst thing you can buy at HF”.
Why not start a poll?

 

[99LeCouch]

For stuff you don't care too much about that need a little touching up, the sandpaper sheets work.*

* means it rips easily yet not evenly, loses abrasive quickly, and doesn't conform well to anything other than a flat surface.

Can't speak about their other abrasive sheets or belts, just the sandpaper.

 

[57plymouth]

Okay. I'll stick with stuff from lowes or home depot

 

[57plymouth]

What do you recommend for cheap sandpaper? You would think you could buy in bulk off ebay, but no. I know to stick with good paper for wet sanding and body work. But what if I just want to scuff some rust down off of a part for a quick hit of rattle can? Where's the cheap common paper for the simple jobs that are not fine furniture or car refinishing?

 

[57plymouth]

Anyone?

 

[Shiftless]

To me, it’s not worth the trouble to inventory different qualities of different grits. How much money would you really save anyway?

I keep different grits in regular and in wet/dry. Most of it is 3M

For quick little passes, you can reuse sheets. I use a rubber sanding block a lot. That takes a quarter of a sheet. I have 3 rubber sanding blocks. Sometimes I put different grits on separate blocks and use 2-3 of them on one woodworking or house painting project.


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[57plymouth]

It's not about saving money. It's about the 40 minute round trip to the nearest home improvement or auto parts store if I need more supplies.

 

[Shiftless]

It's not about saving money. It's about the 40 minute round trip to the nearest home improvement or auto parts store if I need more supplies.

True!
I hate wasting an hour to go get something simple.
To minimize that happening, I just buy several sheets of whatever grit I usually use and keep the sheets in Manila folders.

 

[twill]

Looking to restock my supply of general purpose sandpaper. This is stuff for my poor woodworking, occasional rust removal, etc. I generally use 3M or Klingspor for bodywork on cars. Looking for input on the cheap sandpaper from Haror Freight. Is it halfway good? I do not expect it to compete with 3M, Norton, Klingspor, etc. Just some paper I can keep around for general use. Thinking of the usual grits; 80, 100, 150, 200, sanding sponges, belts for the belt sander, etc.

I’ve done lots of sanding in my years and the HF sandpaper is the worst I’ve experienced. It wears out immediately. Better than nothing but not by much.

 

[PugetDude]

More so than any other product they sell, HF sandpaper is what gives HF a bad name.