Belt Sander

... with a handheld belt sander that had an 80g belt on it but...

purchased an old Rockwell belt sander today. Just down the road from my house and the price was very good. 100$ and now I have my long sought after Rockwell belt sander. Attachments IMG_4405.jpeg 734 KB · Views: 6

... table saw, bandsaw, drill press, belt sander, or some other tool.

5.3 Amp, 1/2 in. x 18 in. Bandfile Belt Sander Amazing deals on this 5.3Amp 1/2In Bandfile Belt Sander at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices. www.harborfreight.com pass. it's corded so it's a little big but it works great.

.... Imagine trying to use a Belt Sander or File to make a ...

... by band file, you mean belt sander, I have an astro pneumatics... to build my 3hp 2x72 belt grinder. It isn't something I... makita gv5000 5 inch disc sander/grinder. Itbis a 90 degree...

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Been buying tools for about 15 years and I always kind of knew Milwaukee and Ryobi were related somehow. Never really looked into it. Last week I finally did and ended up going way deeper than I expected. Turns out the story of who owns what, and what they did after they bought it, explains a lot about why some brands keep getting better and others turned to shit. I wrote up what I found - figured you guys would appreciate it. TTI, a Hong Kong company called Techtronic Industries, owns Milwaukee. They also own Ryobi and make Ridgid tools. They bought Milwaukee from Atlas Copco in 2005 for about $626 million. Stanley Black & Decker owns DeWalt, Craftsman, Black+Decker, Porter-Cable, Irwin, and Lenox. They've blown through over $6 billion in acquisitions since 2002. Both bought up everything on the shelf. But their post-acquisition strategies have been completely different. TTI bought Milwaukee and basically left it alone. Kept the R&D in Brookfield, WI. Kept the engineering team. Dumped $206 million into R&D in one year. Milwaukee's Wisconsin workforce went from 900 people to over 4,000 since 2016. They launched M12 and M18 within two years of buying the brand. That is how to do acquisitions properly. Now contrast SBD. They bought Craftsman from Sears in 2017 for $900 million. Said they were going to "bring back its American manufacturing heritage." Built a $90 million automated factory in Fort Worth. Was supposed to employ 500 people. Long story short, the automation didn't work. Ratchets were coming out of the press misshapen. Sockets went through heat treating without the brand name stamped on them. Metal wasn't getting fully punched out. Retailers couldn't get complete sets so they canceled orders. The executive who launched the project left in 2020 and got replaced by four different people in four years. The SEC later hit the company for failing to disclose $1.3 million in exec perks including private jet use. They shut it down in March 2023. 175 workers at the end. Not 500. The few tool sets that factory actually produced are now collectors' items on eBay. A $90 million factory that ran for about three years and its main legacy is collectible (because of how awful they are) socket sets. Unreal. Craftsman wrenches are made in India now. Their quality perception score dropped from 61 to 55, the biggest decline in the whole tool category. Milwaukee held flat. And Porter-Cable got it even worse. Brand was founded in 1906. Invented the portable belt sander. The Smithsonian collected their company history in 1996. SBD bought them in 2004 and just let them rot. Router line discontinued. Social media went dark for years. No new products. You can still find some stuff at Tractor Supply but the brand is basically dead. Here's an interesting detail I found. TTI, the company that turned Milwaukee into what it is today, actually manufactured Craftsman cordless tools for Sears back in 1987. They literally knew how to make good Craftsman tools. SBD bought the name and couldn't even keep a factory running. The difference is pretty simple. TTI let Milwaukee run itself. Own R&D, own engineering, own identity. Ryobi does its thing for DIY, Milwaukee does its thing for pros. They don't eat each other. SBD merged everything into one corporate blob, bought so many brands they were competing with themselves, and then starved the weaker ones to feed DeWalt. Four different heads of the tools division in four years. A $2 billion "cost reduction program." They didn't build anything. They just cut. The numbers tell the rest. TTI did $14.6 billion in revenue last year with $44 million in net debt. Milwaukee grew 11.6%. SBD is carrying $6.1 billion in long-term debt, took $141 million in restructuring charges, and just announced they're closing their plant in New Britain, CT. That's the city where Stanley was literally founded in 1843. 300 jobs gone from the hometown. I know this sub has its opinions on brands already. Not trying to start another Milwaukee vs DeWalt discussion. But I think the corporate story behind why some brands keep getting better and others keep getting worse is worth understanding. It's the same pattern you see in every industry once the conglomerates show up. A few brands never sold. Klein has been family-owned since 1857, sixth generation, still private. Makita has been independent since 1915. Knipex is family-owned, makes the best pliers I've ever used and nobody's buying them out. And Milwaukee proves that getting acquired doesn't have to mean getting gutted. TTI just gave enough of a shit to invest in what they bought. Edit: This blew up way more than expected - thank you! Got a ton of messages asking if I'm doing more of these. Putting together a newsletter - same sort of teardowns, different industries. Will expand this piece there. Here's the link if you're interested: https://worse-on-purpose.beehiiv.com/ submitted by /u/sappk to r/Tools [link] [comments]

I don't mind paying more for quality tools and I like expensive toys but a belt sander seems like such a simple tool that I'm wondering if picking up anything will do the job ? submitted by /u/mechanizedshoe to r/woodworking [link] [comments]

I have a question for the woodworker's brain trust. Should I keep my hand-held belt sander? Context: I am getting back to the hobby after some time a way. I was never all that good at it. (Patience was not my strong suit. Still isn't but I'm better than I was.) A recent attempt to use a belt sander reminded me that I never learned to use one well. I have a hard time controlling it and left a lot of gouges in a surface that I had to clean up with a random orbital sander. I do OK with other types of sanders. I intend to mostly do small projects. I don't anticipate doing the kind of work where I need to remove a lot of material fast. I'm trying to significantly downsize my collection of tools (I inherited a lot of stuff when my father died earlier this year) because I don't have a lot of space in my shop, and if I keep every item I "might use someday," I'll run out of wall and shelf space pretty quick. I don't think I'll need a belt sander, but maybe I'm overlooking something. If you got rid of your belt sander or never had one in the first place, have you wished you had one? Can a hobbyist who does small projects get along without it? submitted by /u/Norm_di_Plume to r/woodworking [link] [comments]

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I'm currently doing everything with an angle grinder and a filing jig. It's hard, really hard. It's also takes me a lot of time and I don't know how to shape handles (I'm still at my first knife). I really like the hobby. I'm currently at my second attempt because I failed making bevels on my first attempt. Can a cheap belt sander like the ones on Amazon really change things? submitted by /u/ThatItalianOverThere to r/knifemaking [link] [comments]