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berridos

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After a completely ridiculous time sanding my wingplug I decided to move on and prime it. Afterwards I applied guide coat and sanded it of. It now looks soft as a baby butt.
To my surprise when testing the quality of the plug for waviness i am again completely discouraged.
The needle springs very frequently back 20 mircometers. I believe thats tolerable.
But on several places the needle springs back 50 sometimes even 60 micrometers. I believe thats a laminar killer. What do you think?
How would you move on? I thought i could build a sanding block that resembles a violin bow. I would span the continous sanding paper roll firmly on a bow and move the bow along the worst sections? Could that idea be reasonable?
 
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