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A couple years ago Porter Cable 3 X 24 belt sander took everything hands down but now since Bosch and others have come out with new models we will have to again have races. There are two kinds ...
1. The 50 foot race where you use an 14 gage extension cord. The sander has to be pretty well tuned or it will hit the sides of the track and sometimes roll over or at least slow down. Raced Man on Man "Sander on Sander". Loser buys beer.
2. The distance contest where the sander runs as far as the cord will allow, pull the plug and coast to a stop. There is a handicap for cord length to even the playing field. A distance carved plaque is given with the sander's manufacturer and distance hand carved on it.
To be a knowledgable woodworker you have to know all these things. :-)
There are battery operated belt sanders. Probably wouldn't go as fast, but most likely would go farther. Modern tortoise and hare?
Need to work on a solar powered sander, good for races in the desert.
In one cabinet shop I worked at a few years ago we would have belt sander races where a person would perch on top of the belt sander (usually Porter-Cable or old Stanley), reach down to control the trigger, and off you'd go! Forty or thirty-two grit would give the most traction. Foreman: "why the hell do you want forty grit belts?" The shit you would do during slow times in the shop.