Titan 2 abrazives question.

[VictorL]

Hello,

Could somebody tell if Titan 2 with grits 500 and up will work well on wood varnishes? Manual says that it "designed for automotive and oil paints" and "do not use on wood". As I understand varnish is not a wood, but will it work on Poly, shellac or waterbased wood finishes?

Thank you,
VictorL

 

[tbellemare]

Titan 2 is coated with a dry lubricant (stearated) and is open leveled to keep it from loading while sanding. It is designed for automotive applications.

My understanding is that the problem with stearated abrasives on wood comes during the finishing process and getting the finish to stick. There is also a problem with finish appearance.

Brilliant 2 and Cristal work well with sanding bare wood, wood finishes, and paint. They tend not to load. Rubin is great for bare wood.

Tom

 

[Bill in seattle]

Hello,

Could somebody tell if Titan 2 with grits 500 and up will work well on wood varnishes? Manual says that it "designed for automotive and oil paints" and "do not use on wood". As I understand varnish is not a wood, but will it work on Poly, shellac or waterbased wood finishes?

Thank you,
VictorL

Titan 2 is a stearated coated abrasive to resist loading up. Stearates are not friendly to raw wood as the stearate is kind of like a wax and gets into the pores and can cause finishing problems.
Metals, plastics and paints do not have these deep porous cells to them and therefore the stearate does not have anyplace to dig in and hide coming back to get you later.
If you are all done with all your finishing coats and just want to push your finish up to a higher sheen then you could probably use the titan as long as you do not need to apply any further coats of finish. If you had to recoat because you sanded to far the stearates could get into the wood and when you hit it with hot new finish it might bite in and could bond it into the wood and will now cause problems in that area for finishing. Wood types would have differant reactions. Open porus types like oak would be more affected than harder denser types with tight pores. So a decent knowledge here would be a help.
So as a general rule you should not use stearated papers on wood, stearates are best left for finishes. For finishes over wood you could use the stearated paper but you would have to be very cautious and know what your doing to prevent problems.
Unfortunately brilliant only goes to 400, but you could use platin from there to 4000.