Spent most of the day lopping trees and although a bit pooped out found the energy after dinner to head out to the workshop about seven-o-clock for another session.
Monash annual council collection has come around again and this year my focus is on lopping and pruning three areas, one at the front and two at the back. Bit of a bugger that my back has been dodgy the last few weeks so I've asked the kids to help with bundling and stacking the green stuff out the front this coming weekend.
Pity to lop the wattle in full bloom, I've left three up the top.
After redesigning the lower blade holder I pulled the whole thing apart to refine some of the parts.
Redesigned the lower blade clamp.
Lower blade clamp Version 1.0 did not work out. The blade comes loose and the squashed bracket clamp fouls the jigsaw blade guide.
How to drill a hole in a hardened steel blade ?
The build is on hold while we go back and fix something that was a failure.
Next thing to try is drilling both the jigsaw blade and the offcut and screw together to clamp the scroll saw blade.
This will be a interesting session as we are going to mount the saw arm bearings and install the assembly onto the saw frame.
With the arm support column dismantled I marked out the bearing centres on the two supports in preparation to bore the bearing mount holes.
