HI guys!I hope all had a good Christmas and got the new model, engine or tool you asked for. As for myself, I got one of the small head sanders with the triangular foot for getting into corners, etc. I got mine from Harbor Freight for about $29.99 in one of their sales. Now, I'm kicking my butt for not getting it sooner.! Man, it works great!

Now for the problem..... You may know that the sand paper is attached to the soft rubber or foam pad with a velcro type of backing. It works great, but each small pad costs about a dollor each!Whoa!!! That will get expensive. Has anyone else who may have one of these toolsfound another was to attach the paper to the pad?My first thought is that since the sand paper has to have a stiff back that maybe Ican just use something like Rubber Cement and glue one piece to the old piece that has worn out.

If you know of a better way, please let me know.

TIA

Dash

Now you've went and done it! I got one of these for Christmas many years back, a Craftsman even. Never even tried it out. Now I've gotta go locate it and give it a go. Thanks, I think? I'll post back what I think about it when I find it!

Take a piece of the velcro and use spray contact adheisive to attach It to your regular cut sandpaper,
The contact cement cleans off easy with Acetone or Lacquer thinner and it shouldn't hurt the velcro pad

Make a new pad from something stiff, like plastic laminate(formica). Attach Velcro to the back so it will stick to the sander. You now have a smooth pad to use sticky back sandpaper on.
Or, buy sanding disks from a cabinet shop supplier. These come in boxes of 50 or 100, many different grits, and available in PSA (pressure sensitive adhesive) or hook and loop (Velcro). Cut to size to fit the sander.
Contact a local cabinet shop to see where they buy their supplies.

Thanks for the replys and ideas, guys.. If I was looking for a hard sanding pad, your idea would work great, yel914. There are times when you need a hard, flat sanding pad, and I'll rememberr this tip. However, one of the nice things about what the stock pads can do, with the fine paper at least, is go into small radius concave curves like wing fillets, etc. I'm repairing a badly tore up BVMjet and I am doing a lot of filling miss-matched edges, some on concave surfaces. A hard edge on the sanding pad would not help much in that case.

I can see that this little tool has lots of possibilities with a little thought.

Dash