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How do you sand the inside of a tube?

I have a number of plastic tubes of differing sizes that I need to sand the full length of the inside of. The smallest one is less than a centimeter in diameter. I have some long paintbrush handles that fit very well inside, so I've tried to wrap sandpaper around them and insert them into the tubes, but I don't know of a way to sufficiently attach the sandpaper to the brush handles (and getting rolled up sandpaper stuck inside a thin plastic tube is VERY difficult to remove, let me tell you...). Can anyone offer me any help on this?

Answer:

force balls of steel wool thru the tubes from both ends with the paintbrush handles
we could be of better help if we new what you were doing.im a cntractor 50 years.
take a wood dowel make a cut in one end for a flap of sand paper to fit in, attach loose end to a drill , turn it on run plastic tubes back and forth on sand flap [make a sanding rod]

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