Review on 🌱 BOSHCRAFT Eco-Friendly Washable Fine Grit Sandpaper: Reusable for Long-lasting Use by Shantel Griffin

Greetings to all! We continue the theme of reviews of all the little things that make my life easier. In this case, we will talk about a small grinding sponge Bosch Medium. With the exception of one small detail - this is not it. This is a Chinese Noname sponge that says Bosch Medium. And so we immediately ask the question about the price. I bought it about 3 years ago for 80 rubles in the Citylink online store. But today, especially for you, I rummaged through Aliexpress and dug up three of the same ones at a price of 310 rubles per pair, that is, twice as expensive. Well ... as "the same" ... There are three grit options - 80 (article 32244039801), 120 (article 32243837013), 180 (article 32243990721). You can’t leave links on the review site, so I’ll tell you how to look at them. We go to Aliexpress and insert any of these articles into the search bar of the site. To be honest, I have no idea what kind of graininess I have. But I don’t care much, to be honest. In fact, it is just a piece of hard foam rubber, covered with sandpaper on almost all sides. Well, now I will tell you where and how I use it. 1) I clean the copper tip of my soldering iron from scale with it, so that it does not crumble and does not interfere with soldering. It takes me about 2 minutes to completely clean the sting from scale, after which the sting glows with a bright red copper sheen. Since I am a gas worker, sometimes I also have to touch up something with this sponge so that it does not cut my hands. For example, on the inlet water pipes of the Neva gas water heaters, sometimes burrs remain from the factory, without noticing which you can pick up a very unpleasant metal splinter. Therefore, before installation, I carefully inspect all connections and other potentially dangerous places. If there are burrs, I grind them so that I don’t accidentally run into them later. True, it is inconvenient to explain to the customer later, but these are already my problems. But clearly I will show you a slightly different example. This is the most common water tap for 15 (half an inch). This faucet was given to me by a customer. Polypropylene was soldered to the gas water heater for him, the plumber removed this tap, and then for some reason did not put it back. The handle made it difficult to remove the faucet, so the plumber first removed the handle itself, and then the faucet. And lost the nut. It doesn’t make much sense to buy a new faucet - this is an almost new, fully working good faucet, only there is nothing to fix the handle with. And if you buy a new one, then this one will have to be thrown away - it's a pity. The easiest way out is to buy a new nut. Sounds reasonable, but the threads here are imperial, not metric. For those who do not understand - with such a thread pitch, finding a nut of a suitable diameter is problematic. I tried to recut the thread to metric, but nothing happened - the die constantly slipped and the thread was skewed. Therefore, I decided to solder it so that the handle would not come off. And at the same time, I soldered the pipes in order to correctly install the tap at the inlet to the gas column. How did the sponge help me here? Traces of corrosion are obvious, they need to be cleaned off, otherwise the soldering will turn out to be not of such high quality. After 15 seconds of sponge work, absolutely everything was cleaned, except for that scratch from the lost nut. I also cleaned the threaded rod itself - as far as the sponge reaches. It is much less convenient to carry out such operations with an ordinary sheet of skin. So, I soldered the handle thoroughly, I did not spare any rosin or solder. I agree, it turned out not too beautiful, but still reliable. The handle doesn't even wobble. That is, the soldering turned out to be of sufficient quality so that the handle remains in place. But that's not all. With the same sponge, I slightly tweaked the appearance of the soldering - removing parts of the excess rosin. After about 20 seconds. Not perfect, but it looks much better. Now this crane is standing where it should be - at the entrance to the gas column. And this is not even 1% of the little things where I use it. Yes, I agree, it's already pretty beat up in the corners for so long, but it still works, it still serves, it still sands just as well. Like if this information turned out to be useful for you, add me as a friend to follow my new reviews, add a review to your bookmarks, because it will be updated more than once. In updates, I will also give examples where this sponge will be simply irreplaceable.