Emery Paper Grades

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within the range that I want to check are: 2, 1G, 1F, 1C, 1, 0, 1/0, and there are other finer ones that I know have been replaced by 1200 and 2000.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

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

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.

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I am very out of date.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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