Recent content by keltor

I cannot speak to the quality of a lot of the tools, but from what I've seen about the woodworking tools from the 60s Sears is that they were by no means great quality - it was more about good enough. As far as I can tell that's actually be the Sears way all along, never were they making the...

I use an 8"x1" Norton 3X 46grit. If I didn't have belt sander, I'd probably use an 80grit wheel instead. These seem to stay a LOT cooler than any other wheels.

It's all about choice, forced air systems are noisy, radiant systems (boilers) are mostly silent. Radiant systems are really low maintenance and generally provided you don't have a leak will last a really long time. It used to be they were more efficient and of course there's the whole indoor...