Shelf life for Festool sandpaper....

[Dust2Dust]

I was just gifted my first Festool sander, an ETSC 125 Li (she's a good wife indeed) and of course now need proper sandpaper.

I was going to order online but there's is a Festool within walking distance of my workplace and I'd sure like to support them.

My question is that much of their consumables stock has a pretty serious layer of dust and I'm wondering aloud if possible cupping, curling or degradation of the grain adhesive is a concern? Or am I, as usual, overthinking this?

 

[AlexThePalex]

Overthinking. You will expire yourself long before the paper will.

 

[Ves]

Overthinking. You will expire yourself long before the paper will.

Agreed

 

[bertv]

I think the stearinebased types of sandpaper do deteriorate in time, but all major brands don’t use that process anymore. Please correct me if I am wrong (which has happened a few times in the last decade).

 

[peter halle]

Festool sandpaper will curl at times but the hook and loop attachment system will take care of it.

Peter

 

[AlexThePalex]

I think the stearinebased types of sandpaper do deteriorate in time, but all major brands don’t use that process anymore. Please correct me if I am wrong (which has happened a few times in the last decade).

Don't know much about that, I only know I have some old boxes of Festool paper I bought through marktplaats, Rubin 1 and Brilliant 1, and the guy I bought it from said he bought those boxes before the euro was introduced in 2002, so they're at least 15 years old and they're in perfect condition.

I have some no-name papers I bought 25 years ago and they're also perfectly fine.

I have bought some 180 mm round Flexovit papers with glue backing in a sale from my local hardware store, the box said 1978 on it. Even the glue is still in perfect working order, I use it for hand sanding and it's the best paper I have ever used.

 

[sancho57]

I have FT paper I bought 6 years ago and have been with me on 2 continents and back again, no problems.

 

[Coen]

I was just gifted my first Festool sander, an ETSC 125 Li (she's a good wife indeed) and of course now need proper sandpaper.

I was going to order online but there's is a Festool within walking distance of my workplace and I'd sure like to support them.

My question is that much of their consumables stock has a pretty serious layer of dust and I'm wondering aloud if possible cupping, curling or degradation of the grain adhesive is a concern? Or am I, as usual, overthinking this?

The dust is on the boxes, not the sandpaper, right? And it's a Festool dealer, not a snackbar, right?