[Kleftiwallah]

 The Black & Decker sander as far as I can remember I bought in 1972 to help make the first memsahib a sewing box was going strong until very recently  (47years).  I was using it to rub down the top of our garden table top when the beast started making 'bearing chatter sounds' , Off to the shed to see what's wrong, yep, plain metal bearing on the way out.  A quick 20 minutes on the Myford and I had a newby.

Rebuild and strip again, (well, you always put something back upside down, back to front or leave it out altogether.)  It's alive! I don't think it's going to last another 47 years and I don't suppose a modern replacement will last a tenth of that.

Cheers,  Tony.