Pro Tool Reviews: Bandfiles are niche tools and when you need one, there’s little chance another tool can do the job as well. The tool itself isn’t a new concept, but using air power and dragging a hose around? That’s so last decade. The Milwaukee M12 Fuel Bandfile makes some bold claims and wants to replace your pneumatic version.
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I feel like Kenny Koehler and I would get along so well. He wrote up this bandfile article the way I write my comments. But hey! I like Milwaukee and I wanted to know what it was. And now I want one so bad. It can get into all of the grooves in channel or in the nooks and crannys you can't get into with like an angle grinder or palm sander. Sometimes you need the curve! It's like a mini belt sander but for metal! It's so cute but at the same time I imagine this isn't for actual car shops or metal working places right? Like no one really cares about getting into the fine details at O'Reilly's. I also love that everyone thinks that there's no value in pneumatic tools because of the air hose. Like I get it, batteries are the superior way but like whomst of us doesn't feel cool plugging into the air compressor.
I'm sorry what in the hell? How have I never known that this was a thing. I used to do cosmetic work restoring vehicles and this would have been an amazing tool for me to have to try and get caked on brake dust off of rims that had been neglected by the owners. I personally love the act of buffing/polishing/sanding. I used to do it a lot and the idea of this tool is sweet. Pneumatic tools are great but oftentimes they just feel so clunky to use and there is nothing in their use more annoying than realizing that you don't have enough hose to get to where you need, causing you to either relocate the working piece or otherwise find a way to get more slack on your hose. It totally takes the flow out of my work when it happens so in the last few years I have been gaining a lot of interest in wireless electric versions of typically pneumatic tools.
I have got to say that this tool review of the Milwaukee bandfile sander was rather entertaining to read for being a tool review or a Milwaukee bandfile sander. One of the things that makes me go “hmm that is a little funky” is the fact that the whole bandfile sander can rotate a whole 360 degrees, a whole full circle. In theory that seems so cool like “wow that must be so useful” but then you look at how the tool is actually set up and it seems very funky that that is a feature of the Milwaukee bandfile sander. Why in the world would anyone need this bandfile sander to be parallel to the handle. Like what are you going to be sanding like that, if you need the tool to be oriented that way then does the thing you are sanding even need to be sanded? I am just simply perplexed by this specific feature of this Milwaukee bandfile sander.
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