Wood preparation question

[rampy]

I'm going to town on my cab with a finishing sander in order to remove the film of the contact cement and some old paint from a previous conversion (or two) ....

my question is this:

Normally after sanding  you're "supposed-to" wipe it down with tac clothe ( whatever that is) ... if you didn't have tac clothe to get the dust off particle board prior to priming...

normally I'd wipe it down with a damp sponge - but since it's particle board, i'm extra paranoid about any water on this surface....

So any tips/tricks ideas for getting sanding dust off particle board without tackcloth (or whatever it's called)

thanks in advance....

rmapy

[Yarb]

Use a damp sponge just wring it out really well. Or if it was me Id run down to the local hardware sore and buy a bag of tack cloth. Its cheese cloth with gooey stuff (tm) that really works well at getting all that dust off without leaving any residue.

Yarb

[rampy]

thanks..  figured as much... just go back from the hardware store from before and didn't want to make another trip back =p

rampy

[Yarb]

Dont sweat it, ive been to the yard equipment place twice today for a belt for a roto-tiller, and believe me I would MUCH rather be working on a Cab than tilling in new grass

BLECH


Yarb

[rampy]

Here's a tip for  you... or an example... or something...

If you have an old cabinet that you rip the laminate off of so that you can then paint the particle board, DONT try to sand off the the contact cement film that's left on theparticle board.  You'd be much better served by using some sort of solvent remover or heat gun or something....

I was using 36 grit sand paper with an electric 1/3 sheet orbital and it took over an hour to do one side of a cabinet panel... that hardened film of contact cement was impenetrable....

So thought I should pass that along... I also kinda see why the combination of particle board and laminate is popular... seems like its a pain to get a smooth surface with particle board and seems easy to "dent"/chip... *Shrug* just my experience so far with an existing cab (which I got because of my lack of woodworking skillz and the kitsche factor)

We'll see after a quick run with 150 and 220 grit and then some tinted killz primer... how it turns out.

Thanks for your  help,
rampy