Wetsanding and power tools

[butchdave]

I am still in the process of deciding what power tools to buy. Can you use DA/RO sanders or rotaries for wetsanding?



I'm assuming the answer is no, but...



Thanks

 

[butchdave]

Not on the final finish. Final wet sanding shoud be done by hand with a sanding block.

OK - but I have more drastic work in mind, like taking paintwork back to bare metal, and then sanding as the paint goes back on.



One day I expect to run a compressor for a paint gun and a DA sander for this sort of thing, but then again I don't really want to double up on tools more than I have to.



I expect to get something like a PC in the near future, and I don't want to take a whole car down to bare metal and then do all the wet sanding by hand when the PC could be doing it for me.