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I have a Harbor Freight belt sander and you probably guessed it, I switch between wood and metal without giving it much thought. I was dressing up a part from an old Pacific reloading press from the 20's or 30's that was very sparky for some reason, and smoke started pouring out of the idler pulley area. I thought that I smoked the bearing or bushing or whatever they put in those things. I stopped it felt the wheel and it was not hot, then I realized that it smelt like wood. I grabbed my blow gun and blew lots of air in there from several angles. When I got it right a bunch of embers came out and continued to smolder elsewhere. Just something to be aware of.