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Unread 01-27-2012, 07:31 PM
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Now down to the business. I was pressed for time the afternoon I first started prepping for the bedliner so I took the pictures here after I went over the bed with a rough sanding technique and then once again when I had went over it again by hand.

Here are the basic tools I used:





The the long sanding block is key! I felt like Cinderella scrubbing the floor but it allowed me to sand in between the ribbed strips of the bed really quickly and it saved me from having to abuse my fingers so badly. The dual action sander quickly sanded down the tops of the long ribs and the sidewalls. The little 3in sanding pad from 3M got in and around some of the grooves that I would otherwise have to sand with my fingertips. I could have easily gotten along without the 3in disk but I wanted to try one out. There are a lot of other production oriented tools for roughing up truck beds but if you are only doing one or two then sanding it down with some rotary sanding pad and doing the rest by hand is just fine.

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