A novel motion-control scheme on a custom woodworking sander has automated the precision finishing of fret boards for highquality guitars. Dual sanding belts and a swinging workholder on the machine ...

We’re big fans of belt sanders here at Popular Mechanics. When the tool is properly built and you know how to use it, it’s versatile and powerful, capable of de-burring metal, sanding wood, and ...

As a child, [David Windestal] already knew that a belt sander was the perfect motor for a banging radio-controlled car. Many years later, the realization of that dream is everything he could have ...

It is longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest US and crawls at 16kph — too slow for a truck and too long for a train. It is a new sight: the longest ...