ALDI – 20V Mitre Saw

Follow-up to the WorkZone Xfinity 20V sliding mitre saw that I purchased marked down to $49 from $149. This is part of the Xfinity range of ‘skin tools’ where the battery and charger are not included – additional purchases. The saw was marked down because this stuff was on sale in October and I know at that time there was a shortage of the new 4.0Ah batteries (not 2.0Ah) required to power the saw.

Managed to find the $19 charger at another store but no 4.0Ah batteries around which sell for $39. That’s a very good price for 4Ah capacity. I could wait for them to come around again but by then the return period may have run out and who knows, the saw itself could be faulty. Decided to order a 4.0Ah battery from the supplier – Action Spares. Same price as in store with $15 delivery charge – OK with that.

  

With the battery ordered and still wanting to check out the saw decided to hook it up to a couple of used car batteries so we can have a play. Terminals on the saw same as the auto spade type so lets make up a cable to connect the saw.

Family BBQ this afternoon

Had a nice family BBQ this afternoon, dogs outnumbered humans :-)

14” Bandsaw - Vertical post support

With the base box motor and lower wheel ready we can start to plan the vertical post that will support the upper wheel mount assembly on a horizontal arm support.

Using a length of 90 x 70 pine that sill be beefed up with more timber and bracing later on.

Workshop – Going to be very hot

Time is 11.24AM on January 6th 2017.

Checkout the temperature!!!

JY018 Pocket Drone – spare props

Downed drone update - 70th birthday present which is now over a month ago and still not flown the bloody thing! Been waiting on the eBay spare order – 10 packets (4 per pack)

Drone comes with a spare prop set including a little remove/install tool.

Note that all four props are different; A1-A2 and B1-B2. Interesting that the B2 prop kept coming off and in the end got lost. OK...fitted the spare B2 prop to have another go and again crashed, lost that one as well - bugger.

14” Bandsaw-Vertical post preparation

I need to know exactly where to locate the top edge of the upper wheel assembly horizontal support arm and mark that off on the vertical support.

For that we need to measure the distance between the shaft or bearing centres plus allow for thickness of the tyres and then subtract from that figure enough slack clearance to allow the blade to slip onto the wheels.

To measure the centres the blade needs to be mounted on the wheels, don’t want to fiddle with something that has very sharp teeth so as before I’ll use banding tape in place of the blade.

14” Bandsaw–move it off bench

From the previous post and before it gets to heavy I need to move the saw off the workbench and onto a stand or table. Would also be nice to move it around easily.

Found the low table in the downstairs rumpus room that I used for the first bandsaw but, also came across this TV stand. Replaced the feet with a ALDI castor set, one pair lockable.