Vintage Skil belt sander

[genog]

Here's a nice cool old Skil sander

Previous owner repurposed a Craftsman tool box and did a nice stenciling job.
It fooled me at first...

Works well

By the way, Happy Independence Day!

[lptools]

Wow!  I have never seen that one before!! Very cool!

[Bill Houghton]

Very nice.  There should be a black plastic knob on the front by which to grip the front; but, even without that, it's a fine looking tool.

Christian Becksvoort (https://www.chbecksvoort.com/), a major furnituremaker focused on Shakerish furniture, uses or used to use, one of these as his standard belt sander.

[genog]

Very nice.  There should be a black plastic knob on the front by which to grip the front; but, even without that.....

There's a knob.
Look at the pics

[Bill Houghton]

Very nice.  There should be a black plastic knob on the front by which to grip the front; but, even without that.....

There's a knob.

Ah.  Missed it.  I'd sworn that Skil put the knob on the very front of the sander in that design, so I didn't look closely enough.

[genog]

The knob is very hard to see in my pics
You had me worried for a minute...