{"id":27545,"date":"2016-11-11T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2016-11-13T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T20:52:57","slug":"bandfile-belt-sander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bandfile-belt-sander\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandfile Belt Sander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased this Chicago Electric (read: &#8220;Harbor Freight&#8221;) tool 3 years ago to clean up some cuttings I made on a sheet of expanded metal I used to build a car top carrier. Since then I have used it for any number of projects. The little unit is fairly lightweight, the belts are easy to change, and it works like a plow horse, unending and never overheating. <\/p>\n<p>You can change the angle through 360 degrees of rotation and the half-inch width gives you a way to reach into tight spots. And its cheap. At $33 it has lasted me through easily a dozen projects and it just keeps working. Harbor Freight stores are all over the place, so buying one retail shouldn&#8217;t be too hard. I can&#8217;t honestly say all their tools are the best. Definitely read the reviews before you buy any of their tools. But this and their 1&#8243; belt sander, which I also own and use, have been real work horses, and cheap to buy. In my mind that makes it a cool tool. I also have a Harbor Freight bought drill press that has lasted longer than the Ryobi drill press it replaced.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sander removes stock, strips paint, and finishes edges <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27547,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions\/27547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}