{"id":2215,"date":"2008-08-07T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T22:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2008-08-07T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T22:18:32","slug":"power-tool-drag-races-article-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/power-tool-drag-races-article-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Tool Drag Races Article in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an article about the Power Tool Drag Races<\/a>. Written by Jessica Bruder. It’s a good article. Click the photo to see the whole thing.<\/p>\n

It starts…<\/p>\n

My Belt Sander Can Beat Your Circular Saw<\/strong><\/p>\n

By JESSICA BRUDER
\nPublished: August 6, 2008<\/p>\n

TEN feet short of the finish line, Barbie Airplane was stranded.<\/p>\n

The cheerful contraption \u2013 a Craftsman belt sander crowned with a powder-blue toy plane \u2013 had been careening down the 75-foot racetrack moments earlier. Then the sander\u2019s rotating belt came undone, stopping it dead.<\/p>\n

In the neighboring lane, Heavy Metal Waste, a circular saw souped up with skateboard wheels and flaming antennas, had already rocketed past. Cheers of victory rang from the bleachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime waits for no one!\u201d heckled the announcer. So Randy Lisbona, a 47-year-old air-conditioning engineer from Dallas, hauled his broken-down belt sander off the track to make way for the next heat.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how it goes at power tool drag races. The premise is simple: Take a hand-held power tool. Rebuild it into a racing machine.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Charlie Gadeken, who started the haphazard sport with a co-conspirator, Jim Mason, saw the races as a way to get more people involved in creating \u2013 and not just watching \u2013 mechanical art.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article about the Power Tool Drag Races. Written by Jessica Bruder. It’s a good article. Click the photo to see the whole thing. It starts… My Belt Sander Can Beat Your Circular Saw By JESSICA BRUDER Published: August 6, 2008 TEN feet short of the finish line, Barbie Airplane was stranded. The cheerful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}