{"id":18,"date":"2004-03-26T01:13:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T08:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:14","slug":"where-not-to-buy-your-sandpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/where-not-to-buy-your-sandpaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Where not to buy your sandpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short entry today.  I just went to Lowe&#8217;s, and their hook-and-loop pads (for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/archives\/000002my_first_sander_by_fisher_price.html\">the greatest tool ever made<\/a>) are $15 for a 50-pack.  And they&#8217;re Porter Cable.  Home Depot?   The same price, but you only get 25.  And they&#8217;re Norton sandpaper, which is a notoriously crappy.  So if you need a big pack of sandpaper in a hurry, get it from Lowe&#8217;s, not Home Depot.  You&#8217;ll thank me for it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(Home Depot and Lowes both have crappy websites, but Lowes is worse.  They don&#8217;t have most of their stock online.  I was going to fact-check my recollection of HD&#8217;s lousy prices, but they don&#8217;t have them on line, so tough for them.)<br \/>\n(I generally default to Home Depot; they tend to hire smarter people, and their cheap tool brand (Ryobi) is one of the best, while Lowe&#8217;s cheap tool brand (General Something?) is one of the worst.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to Lowe&#8217;s, and their hook-and-loop pads are $15 for a 50-pack.  And they&#8217;re Porter Cable.  Home Depot?   The same price, but you only get 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}