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tautech:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on May 29, 2018, 02:29:34 am ---Damn, tautech, that thing's a beast!!  I need to excavate my garage and get mine wired up again (a relatively tiny Canuckian ten incher I got as a floor model back around 2005; it came from a local tool supply store that I should never have set foot in), and also get the router table purchased a few years ago up and running to do the trim for the never ending house renovation I've been in the midst of for seven years now...

-Pat

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Yeah that's the problem with living in an old house.
Start to fix some small thing on one corner and two years later you might be finished but on the opposite corner !  :rant:
Done that a few times in the 35+ years I've been here.

Yeah those saws are poor man's bench and radial arm saw, not brilliant at what they do but effective.
Just takes a few seconds to fold the ripping fence and tuck it downwards and another second to flip the docking fence into place. The blade can be locked for up ripping by way of a beefy fabricated wing nut but honestly it's much safer to use the treadle to hold it mostly right up and for the last little bit stop pushing and fix fingers clear of the path of the blade and raise it right up with the treadle to finish the rip. < that's for short lengths while for sheets you're better to lock the blade in one place.

mnementh:
Wow...tautech, that saw of yours is a scary monster. I have to admit I'm no woodworker; my medium were always electrons & metal.

I decided to dabble a bit due to literally tripping over this saw on the side of the road; it was complete with rip fence (wrong one though I didn't discover this until well into the restoration process) and miter square; it was missing motor bolts, AZ/EL handwheels and belt. Even as ignorant as I am of woodworking, the master machinist's grandson DID recognize the quality of the beast; I nearly plotzed as the motor hadn't been scarfed by some opportunist even though it was left lying on top of the deck!

I have no idea how I managed to get it home in the back of old Franken-Cruiser; I just remember a lot of grunting and ratcheting tie-downs. I did a bit of shopping online and found some 140mm Bakelite handwheels on AliEx for $4 EACH with shipping, and the right size belt for another $4. Another couple bucks at the local Homeowner Hell got me the few nuts & bolts it needed to hang the motor again; then a month wait for the slow boat from China.

I fabricobbled a lift mechanism with some old cut-down caster wheels and a lever so I could make moving it a little easier; those footle-operated equipment movers are flipping expensive, and I just needed to be able to push/pull it 10 feet in/out of the garage. Once everything was back together and the trunions freed up/greased up, I realized the paneling blade that came with wasn't going to cut the mustard, so another trip back to Homeowner Hell yielded a cheap 24T Irwin rip blade. I figured it wouldn't last half way through the job before I'd have to regrind the points; but much to my surprise, the blade ran smooth and true through several hundred feet of rip and cross cutting tropical oak and cedar and still feels like-new sharp.

The slow blade speed of the belt-drive makes this thing crazy quiet (probably also why the cheap blade worked/held up so well); the only noise you hear is the whoosh from the teeth, a dull growl while cutting and occasional ringing of the blade at the end of a cut. As you can see in the pic from last fall, I made do with a piece of bedrail C-clamped to the deck; my intention is to SLIGHTLY improve on that by means of a cross-angle to engage the existing rail angles and again hold it in place with C-clamps or maybe Vise-grip type welding pliers. I toyed with the idea of trying to fab up rails to work with the "all wrong" rip fence I got with the thing but it didn't happen. That is a VERY low priority now that it's probably going to go down the road (either to my local hackspace or a neighbor) as I'm certainly not going to haul it with me halfway across the country when I move; it'll cost me a fortune in gas.

While I was working on this project Ifni smiled upon me in the form of a couple of Crafstman plunge routers in salvageable condition; one has all the little balls missing in the adjuster mechanism, while the other has the foot plate missing. it was probably attached to a router table, which I need to fab one up to finish all the slats anyways.

We'll see how that works out... my neighbor may inherit the Brown-Jordan patio chair project as well.  >:D

Cheers,


mnem
*Toddles off to ded*

tautech:
mnem
Are you sure that saw blade is running fast enough ? Tip speed should be 10,000 ft/min, regardless of diameter.
C = Pi * d  ;)

Oh and if it's TCT they give excellent service even though they're a bit harder to drive than a plain steel blade.

I had to do a few  :-/O's on the McKenzie when I got it home from the road trip as I think it was originally single phase and the 2hp 3ph mator that came with it was loose, not even mounted and with no twin Vee belt pulley. I had one that was almost perfect ratio, mounted it and the motor and wired in a DOL starter/contactor.
Been goin' great guns ever since.

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Too many toys !

Brumby:

--- Quote from: tautech on May 29, 2018, 04:13:30 am ---Too many toys !

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No such thing.

If anything, there's never enough space or time.

(Yep, need a TARDIS)

tautech:

--- Quote from: Brumby on May 29, 2018, 04:36:02 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on May 29, 2018, 04:13:30 am ---Too many toys !

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No such thing.

If anything, there's never enough space or time.

(Yep, need a TARDIS)

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You missed ROOM !  :P

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Tripping over all the stuff.

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