For example, we tested the handheld sanders with large belts for removing old paint and smoothing flat wood surfaces, while we used smaller boards and dowels to test narrow-belt bench-style models ...

Handheld belt sanders are commonly used for DIY and remodeling tasks. They can be moved back and forth across large surfaces, rapidly stripping old finishes from doors, tables, beams, or joists.

For those who don’t know, thickness sander is a machine that will sand off a small amount of material from the surface of a large wood panel. There are certainly commercially available thickness ...

With a simple homebrew attachment, [Darek] turned his angle grinder into a micro-belt sander that’s great for those hard-to-reach places. The attachment that clamps where the disc guard normally ...