Emery Paper Grades

[merlinParticipant @merlin98989]

In am trying to put all my emery paper sheets into order of grit size. Some sheets are years old and I would like to check their grades against the new nomenclature.

I can't get any response from 'Search' to 'emery paper', 'abrasive' or 'emery' so I must be doing something wrong.

Those within the range that I want to check are: 2, 1G, 1F, 1C, 1, 0, 1/0, and there are other finer ones that I know have been replaced by 1200 and 2000.

Is there a good website that spells this out?

Thanks

[merlinParticipant @merlin98989]

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

This should give you most of what you wnat or pointers to help.

[MadMikeParticipant @madmike]

Merlin why are you worried about "new nomenclature" and grade numbers for such a low useage product. It's only emery paper or cloth after all. Just look at it and/or feel it and then sort and store it accordingly. Simples.

Effort should be devoted to real tasks like cutting metal.

Incidentally what do you use emery paper for? I bet I haven't used more than half a sheet in 5 years, and then only to polish some stainless steel cap screw heads.

[merlinParticipant @merlin98989]

Not worried.

We're all a bit odd (even tha'?) and it is one of my pleasures to have things tickety-boo in my workshop: if the emery paper manufacturers have gone to the expense of making and marketing differing grades then I may as well store them ready for use in that order.

I knew these grades by heart when I worked with them in the early sixties.

The differences are not easy to feel or see.

I could easily spend time with the heater on and minus five degrees outside, noting the effects of various grades on a sheet of metal but I thought that someone here could advise me, which they have done.

After a long break I am back working on the clock and about to polish the centre arbor.

I am very out of date. What would you use to get a really high polish on a roughish turned silver steel 3/16" x 3" rod? Perhaps there are labour-saving modern diamond-using that I don't know about.

What variety of model engineering demands only half a sheet of emery paper or cloth in five years?

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