14” Bandsaw – Mounting the motor

14" Bandsaw project - as mentioned in previous posts I gave up with the idea of a hinged motor mount, put that aside and carried on with balancing the lower wheel. With that done we are now back to mounting the motor assembly.

Decided to take the same approach as I did with the 8" bandsaw, the motor base will just sit on the bottom of the base box with allowance to move in both directions for belt tension (left to right) and belt alignment (front to back).

Here I glued and screwed a pine block to the motor base, then drilled and tapped a 3/8" hole for the threaded rod (belt tension). Smeared the tapped hole with Araldite before screwing in the threaded rod.

14" Bandsaw - wheel balancing video

14" Bandsaw - Balancing the lower wheel.

From the previous session I think I've given up with the hinged motor mount due to excessive belt bounce etc. While thinking about that may as well balance the lower wheel. This is a laborious procedure which will need to be repeated for the upper wheel.

While thinking about some other motor mount arrangement let's balance the lower wheel.

Drone update

Hoping for lighter winds tomorrow to have another go at flying the drone that I got for my birthday. In the meantime was pottering in the workshop today and came across this old fashioned ladies cosmetic case.

Some months ago bought this cosmetic case from the Salvos for $3.25, figured it would be handy for something in the workshop.

Pixie – new toy

Pixie is so happy that mum is home after four days away and now I don't have a shadow following me around anymore - yippee kai yay

Relaxing in her balcony basket with a new toy mum brought home for her.

14” Bandsaw – Hinged motor mount

Pondering which way to go with this, on the first 14” saw went for the hinged motor mount with a threaded rod for belt tension. From memory there was some shaking, likely belt bounce. With the 8” saw the motor sat on the bottom of the base box in mitre slides with the threaded tension going through the side of the box.

OK…will use the hinged setup.

14" Bandsaw project - saw motor assembly

There are a few ways to mount the motor. The 8" bandsaw I built earlier this year just sat on the box base and moved left-to-right in mitre slides for belt tension, and front-to-back for V-belt alignment.

The original 14" bandsaw I built in 2014 used a hinged motor mount with threaded rod for belt tension and mitre slides for V-belt alignment.

Decided to go with a hinged motor mount, the weight of the motor (quiet heavy) will assist with V-belt tension.

14" Bandsaw project - layout thoughts

From the last related post trying to work out where to locate the lower wheel and motor in the saw base box. To the left of the wheel will be the main vertical post that will support the upper saw components, the upper wheel mounted in a framed wheel block that will allow for blade tension and blade tracking.

I need to make sure I have enough room for the vertical support post that will be fixed to the left edge of the base box and...some idea of the length or more correctly the height.
Done a mock layout here with the 2553mm blade tensioned around the 14" wheels. Bearing centre to centre is 71mm - write that down.

Very hot today

Hot day for all of us, in particular the chooks but the know to head for the relative coolness of the cottage garden.

Bella quite active near the side fence, in the coolness of the cottage garden.

Meadowbrook Mansion - Boxing day recovery session.

Pixie

Telstra/NBN speed check

Looks OK for the Xmas peak period.

14” Bandsaw – Turning the second wheel

Yesterday I turned the first wheel for run-out and cut a crown on the rim. For this session we repeat the procedure for the second wheel.

This is the first wheel put aside, time to mount the second one on the wood turning jig clamped to the workbench.

Christmas 2017

14" Bandsaw – Wood turning setup

All setup to turn the wheel and cut a crown.

As mentioned in the previous post I had to swap over the setup to have the wheel on the right so it's spins down onto the wood chisel which is supported by the 'tool rest'.

14" Bandsaw - wheel video clip

14" Bandsaw – wood turning jig setup

Time to setup the saw motor with a V-belt to drive the first wheel for wood turning and cutting a crown on the circumference.

The V-groove drive ring is screwed on, now to mount the wheel on the jig shaft.

14" Bandsaw - Continued with the drive ring.

Cut out the middle using a new ALDI Workzone jigsaw with awful results. Hmmm...should have used a jigsaw 'scroll saw' blade to follow the cut line.

14" Bandsaw – Turning the wheels

Yesterday…after fitting the V-groove pulley (doughnut) so the wheel can be spun up from the motor, I turned the first wheel for run-out and also cut the 5 crown on the rim – this will become the upper wheel. For this session I removed the doughnut from the first wheel and fitted to the second wheel. Now we repeat the wood turning procedure for the second wheel, the doughnut remains on what is now - the lower wheel.

This is the first wheel put aside, time to mount the second one on the wood turning jig clamped to the workbench.

What's going on ???

Meadowbrook Mansion is usually a quiet place !!!

Meadowbrook Mansion – K9 guest

Holly (right) with her K9 guest - Willow

ET trying to have afternoon tea

Afternoon siesta for the doggies.

Our guest Willow.

14” Bandsaw – Finish mounting flanges

Finished mounting the bearing flanges on the second wheel.

Last one for final glue and screw.

Meadowbrook Mansion – K9 guest

We have a guest staying at Meadowbrook Mansion for a few days, her name is Willow from Botanic Ridge.

14" Bandsaw – V-belt pulley

Setting up a router jig to make the V-groove pulley. The first wheel becomes the upper wheel. After this the pulley is removed and screwed to the second wheel and the process is repeated. The pulley remains on the second wheel which becomes – the lower wheel.

Having mounted the bearing flanges on both wheels and as mentioned in the previous bandsaw post I now need to make a temporary drive pulley or doughnut with a V-groove so I can spin each wheel from the saw motor to true the circumference for run-out with a wood chisel. For this sort of stuff you must have a router mounted in a router table. The ALDI setup is OK for my needs - with modifications.

14” Bandsaw – First wheel second flange

We can now mount the second flange, the clamps here go through onto the one I did this morning.

We can now mount the second flange, the clamps here go through onto the one I did this morning.

14” Bandsaw – First wheel first flange

Continuing on from the previous session a week ago, Crikey got side tracked with tech stuff like phones, tablets and the Windows 10 Creator Update...we will continue with mounting the bearing flanges on the bandsaw wheels. Yes...this early stage is a time consuming and critical process that must be done in a particular order.

We are ready to mount the first bearing flange.

Christmas shopping trip

Another shopping round trip - Scoresby, Knox, Stud Park and Springvale. Finally home and pooped out.

  

Christmas present for a family member and a pizza spatula for the BBQ oven box.

Garden gazebo water barrel feature - continued

With everything removed this is the Japanese water spout, the roots of the water lily had completely filled the inner plastic tub liner and even engulfed the water pump. I had to use secateurs to locate and cut free the water pump - LOL

When I made this project I blocked all the drain holes with bits of plastic, each one pushed into a bed of silicon.

The raging water lily with roots trimmed back will need to go into it's own pot.

This one here, as before I've blocked the drain hole.

This was another water plant in the barrel, now in a larger pot and like everything in there was also suffocated by the roots of the water lily.

New barrel from Bunnings for $31 bucks.

Windows 10 Creators Update - Sbtle changes.

Taskbar network icon now has a Wi-Fi dropdown box which is good but even better for me is the Mobile hotspot - to easily connect to my Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro during power outages.

Bunnings shopping trip

Wanted to spend my 70th birthday Bunnings gift cards (pooled) on a Ozito Multi Purpose Saw and also get a 30cm wooden barrel to repair the Bamboo Water Spout feature in the gazebo area.

Unplanned purchase - this is the BBQ Pizza Oven Box we bought from Bunnings today. They had a staff person giving cooking demonstrations and ET managed to sample TWO slices of pizza

Garden gazebo water barrel feature

Made this some years ago when I had a bamboo fad for making water features.

It’s a classic bamboo water spout powered by a water pump that sits inside a modified plastic tub all of which then sits in a decorative wooden barrel with some water plants.

Here is a video clip of the water feature in the front porch, later on I moved it to the back yard gazebo area.

Badly needs attention, looks like the water lily has strangled everything.

Windows 10 Creators Update – Win+X ???

After updating this morning and getting familiar with WCU 1709 through the day, inevitably I have come across a change I don't like - but not a big deal.

Microsoft has removed the traditional Control Panel from the Win+X menu, that's the one you see when you right click the Start button from the desktop - bugger. Anyway I just searched for it and pinned to the Start.

Anyway…pinned a Control Panel tile.

Windows 10 Creators Update

Still playing around with some of the new and improved stuff plus getting rid of all the kids games.

Edge for Win10 has indeed been improved, you can now even rename a Fav URL - LOL. Installed Edge for Android on my new Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro and yes it's slick and fast.

Also updated to the latest GUI for Office Mobile Apps and some other stuff.

Ugly underbelly of Muslim suburb

Had to take a break reading this article,

I'll try again with my second coffee.

Inside Australia’s most Muslim suburb

Windows 10 Creators Update – finally

Been here before, already tried several times installing WCU 1709 - and failed.

This morning Win Update is offering restart to complete WCU update – really?

Apex gang-linked man allowed to travel overseas

WTF ????

Akon Mawien was high on ice and armed with a hammer when he helped steal about $200,000 worth of goods from multiple jewellery stores.

Another article about the same ‘person’.

14" Bandsaw – More wheel work

Continued with the wheels today in two sessions posted here in one post.

Lost of hole cores for making smaller knobs.

Bella in the front yard

Bella pecking at her platter of corn, pumpkin and rice.

Misty, Speckles and Peaches

Bella is in the front yard, she tends to wander off by herself.

Telstra customers

For those who have, or thinking of getting the Telstra TV2 puck you can now simply add Netflix to your bundled account. Personally I don’t like any of the streaming stuff and prefer the movies package that is a part of my Foxtel from Telstra bundle.

Telstra NBN speed check - still good

Interesting that customers have started complaining since Telstra implemented Unlimited (or double data) their speeds have dramatically dropped.

14” Bandsaw – Bearing flanges

After cutting the Melamine wheels the next job is to make the flanges to mount the bearings.

The bearing flange (four of them) looks like this, the 6205 2RS bearing has a OD of 52 mm so I need a hole size a bit under that as the bearing must be a press fit. Currently the only hole saw set I have is cheap one from the market for $15. The set does have a 51 mm but I suspect it's going to bore a hole that's to large.

14” Bandsaw – Motor for saw

This is the motor I will be using, a 1200W unit from a ALDI GardenLine water pump.

I would love to buy one of their motors as well but a 1.5HP 4 pole is around $200 dollars.

14” Bandsaw – Cutting discs 3 & 4

Back to cut discs 3 & 4 which will make the second wheel

Entertainment Unit

That was put out for hard waste collection in the Rowville area somehow found it's way into the back of my KIA Pregio van and into the Meadowbrook Mansion workshop.

Perfect for the just completed 8” bandsaw.