As posted last week picked up this saw from Waverley Gardens for $49 marked down from $99. They came around in October for $140 so I was happy with the purchase.
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Saturday, January 13, 2018
ALDI – 20V sliding mitre saw update
Friday, January 12, 2018
14” Bandsaw – additional saw bracing
During this session generally added more bracing to make the main vertical support and the upper wheel assembly horizontal arm more robust, to minimise shaking and vibration.
More pine and a bracing board on the side.
14” Bandsaw – back on track
With the saw now clamped down on the low table with just the lower wheel the shaking has been reduced to an acceptable level.
Thursday, January 11, 2018
14” Bandsaw - we have a problem (2)
14” Bandsaw - we have a problem (1)
A big problem!
Everything going along nicely until we got to a interesting stage, in fact a milestone for this bandsaw build. With tyres fitted to each wheel and mounted on the saw, motor assembly aligned and V-belt tensioned it’s time to fit the blade and test run the saw!
Fitted the blade and while turning the upper wheel adjusted the tracking so the blade was running on the crown of each wheel, then wound up the blade tension and again checked the tracking – all OK. Time to turn on power and yes…she works!!!
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Mitre saw - Xfinity 20V 4.0Ah battery
After hooking up the Xfinity 20V sliding mitre saw to two car batteries so I can use the thing while waiting for the battery to arrive – guess what?
The phone order that I placed with Action Spares on Saturday 6th for a Xfinity 20V / 4.0Ah battery - has arrived this morning.
14” Bandsaw – prepare upper wheel shaft
Something I’ve been putting off is to prepare another shaft, actually aluminium tube, to mount the upper wheel.
I bought a length of the above for the current bandsaw project because since I built the first 14” bandsaw in 2014 the 25mm steel tube I got from Masters only required minimal effort with emery paper to get the wheels to slide onto the tubing – RIP Masters.
Can’t remember the exact numbers from the digital calipers, the tubing 25.3mm and the 6205 bearing slightly under 25mm – something like that. So the tubing needs to be reduced 0.4mm, may not seem much but took a LOT OF EFFORT to get the lower wheel to slide onto it’s tubing or shaft.
Now we have to repeat the painful procedure for the upper wheel where I’ve been using some 25mm dowel up until now.
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Off to Chinatown this morning to do some banking & shopping in Target. While looking for a particular wireless extender (see other post)...