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Saturday, December 30, 2017

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.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

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.