Where Can One Purcase Sandpaper Clips ?

[Old_Geezer]

Probably a long shot but; does anyone know where I can purchase clips/clamps/grips to screw into the back of a length of wood to hold abrasive paper ?

My DIY skills are a little lacking in some areas and I need to create a long handheld sanding tool to try to turn a surface that resembles rolling hills into one that is reasonably flat. Getting fed up trying to mark and sand the high spots only to find it all seems the same at the next check.

TIA

[bhg481]

You can buy rolls of sandpaper for belt sanders and you could fix then to a board with something like this:

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[bookbinder]

I've never heard of sandpaper clips, but would a sanding block do the job?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanding-Blocks/b?ie=UTF8&node=1938997031

[Old_Geezer]

Rolls I have. I had not considered tape. I would prefer a clip but I'll bear that in mind; thanks.

[allenlondon]

Or, if you’ve got some really strong glue, try that (then clamp it for 24 hours to let it stick).

[Old_Geezer]

Unfortunately not. The small size is the issue there, it'd follow the rolling hills and not just the high spots.

[Old_Geezer]

Yeah, but abrasive paper gets clogged and needing replacement. Which is why one needs to unclip, remove, then clip the next bit in.

[bookbinder]

Could you give us the dimensions of your long handheld sanding tool?

[woofgang]

could you rub the thing you are sanding over a flat table/bench that you have covered with coloured chalk? the chalt would only be picked up by the high spots, sand those down and repeat.. Sanding with a huge tool will be a problem as the pressure will be uneven.

[dannyk13]

Try this OG:-
https://www.screwfix.com/p/rubber-sanding-block-68-x-125mm/12104

[Old_Geezer]

Not really bb. I don't have access to the bit of wood I intended using; but maybe just over a metre and the width of a roll of abrasive paper would be close.

Not really woofie, the wall won't come away to put on the table surface :-(

Got plenty of those dan. Far too small I'm sorry to say.

[woofgang]

ok OG then you need a flat surface that you can smear some paint on and put it up against the wall so the high bits catch the paint and the low bits don't...either that or fill in the low bits with plaster or filler.

[Atheist]

OG, why not wrap the sandpaper round the wood?

[Old_Geezer]

To be honest I've spent a long time, many times, with a ruler marking the high bits. Using a power sander on them. Checking again, still finding high bits, and so being back to "square one". Again & again... Desperate for a better solution. Which is where the long piece of straight flat wood comes in, as long as I can find a way to clip the ends of the abrasive paper on the back side, along with a handle or two. Hopefully that'd find the tops automatically and wear them down.

[Ryzen]

OG...are you trying to flatten a plastered wall?

[alavahalf]

You could alwsys use the tried and tested method of cutting your abrasive material a little wider than the former it will be used on .. and then securing it with some of theses ..

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[Old_Geezer]

In effect I am trying to do just that, but for a longer length than is available with commercially available hand sanders. I don't think it'd work so well wrapped around the short dimension. The overlap would ruin the flatness and rubbing back & forth would probably separate each loop.

I'm wondering if two large bullclips would hold.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, drawing pins. That may work too. Bigger pain to change, but definitely worth a thought, thanks.

[Mexican18]

Why wont you tell us what you are trying to sand?

[Ryzen]

Is it solid plaster or board and skim?

[Ryzen]

You could wrap the paper over the top of the block and secure with 2 smaller pieces of wood screwed through the paper into the block.