My woodworking teacher always told me never to...

[Mekon]

rip sandpaper, any idea why?

Apart from being a little wasteful, it still seems to do the job.

Mekon

[Nova]

It's tough on the rip blade.

-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA

[Mekon]

Chuckle chuckle..

OK chaps...."rip" as in "tear". Not "tear" as in "tear drop" either

Ain't English wonderful?

Mekon

[Bob S.]

Cause it causes an irregular edge which is more prone to snagging than a cut edge....try it - you soon see why...

Bob S.

[Michael Daly]

My experience - ripped sandpaper tears more easily during sanding than cut sandpaper. All those wavy edge bits mess up and start a tear. YMMV

Mike

[Andy Dingley]

Ours would rip your head off for calling it "sandpaper" rather than glasspaper. Not that much of it is made out of glass either, but you know what traditionalists are like...

I rip mine, but I always fold and crease it first. I never have a problem with tears.

[George]

The grit layer separates from the paper easier that way, too. I score with a knife and snap.

[Graham Walters]

The purpose built Curragh military detention barracks which was built in

1863, was known as the "glasshouse" because it had a distinctive glass roof. Now, all military and some civilian prisons are known as the "glasshouse"....

Something like than anyway.....

Graham

[Mekon]

That was the one

or "never rip

It seems to me your original

Much... :)

The latter must have been too weird for me to consider as a possibility!

Mekon

[dennisvogel]

Got it.

Yeah, but stick around the Internet for a while and you'll read the strangest things. I never process what someone writes through my own life experience filters. And don't get me started about the butchering of the English language that passes these days! ;-)

Dennis Vogel

[Rico]

I hope that your goal with that sentence was to give an example of poor English. :)

Rico

[Doug Winterburn]

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran fguiers it out aynawy.

-Doug

[Peter Ashby]

I put it over the back edge of my metal straightedge, but I usually crease it first too.

Peter

[Silvan]

Taths pttery cool, but I wneodr if it's ctlmoepey ture if snomoee geos to ermtxees to srcew tgihns up?

I'd say there's rather more to it than just the first and last letters, like keeping certain dipthongs together and such, but I *can* read that jibberish you spouted above.

[dennisvogel]

Well, it wasn't. Sorry for that but if it helped make the point, so be it.

Dennis Vogel

[dennisvogel]

Dno't bileev ervetyigh yuo raed.

Dennis Vogel

[Scott Cramer]

Pterty fiknucg anziamg.

[Frank Nakashima]

Wow

Doh

Den'sot wrok wtih tehre lteer wrods