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Startrite 352 Bandsaw mods
mattinker:
£100! That's about 1/4 of what I would have thought it was worth!
Regards, Matthew
PekkaNF:
Yep. Aluminium and such, specially extruded channels goes pretty well with wood cutting saw, if you don't push it. Wood blade is not the best for it, but goes.
1/2 speed would should be fine for aluminium, but it is still too fast for iron metals. You don't get good life out of band saw blade.
Don't try thin steel plate with too coarse coarse blade pitch. You probably guess how it goes.
Pekka
Jo:
--- Quote from: mattinker on April 16, 2017, 09:37:53 AM ---£100! That's about 1/4 of what I would have thought it was worth!
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The band saw was the carrot to go with the stick of having to clear out the rest of the wood worm infested 50+ year old stuff. As for the electrics of the other machines I was amazed they have three pin plugs fitted but none have any insulators on the pins, the rubber mains cables had long ago rotted through :palm:
I have a lot of what should have been very nice pieces of wood for turning that are so full of hole they are of no use to anyone, not even as firewood. What a waste :bang: and it all must be cleared as part of the deal. All the good quality tooling has been put to one side for the original owner to sell on Flea bay...
I need to find a good quality blade supplier, any recommendations? These are 112" long. I will be looking for Bi-metallic/HSS blades...
Jo
Pete W.:
--- Quote from: Jo on April 16, 2017, 11:04:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: mattinker on April 16, 2017, 09:37:53 AM ---£100! That's about 1/4 of what I would have thought it was worth!
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The band saw was the carrot to go with the stick of having to clear out the rest of the wood worm infested 50+ year old stuff. As for the electrics of the other machines I was amazed they have three pin plugs fitted but none have any insulators on the pins, the rubber mains cables had long ago rotted through :palm:
SNIP
Jo
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On modern plugs, insulating sleeves should ONLY be fitted to the live (aka 'phase') and neutral pins.
If you encounter a 13 amp plug (i.e. purporting to conform to BS1363) with an insulating sleeve on the earth pin it is non-compliant and illegal! :zap: :zap:
Such plugs do turn up on IT accessories from the far East. Some have no fuse and have a small body that risks the user wrapping their fingers round to the pins. I even had one recently with a kite mark moulded into the body, conclusive proof that it's counterfeit.
awemawson:
Oh - yes danger abounds :bugeye:
I had one last year that supposedly conformed to BS1363 but the clever designer had omitted the fuse to make the body so small that fingers easily could contact the pins which had no shrouds :bang:
One variety I saw once had the cable moulded in, had strands of wires emerging to the surface of the moulding :zap: but admittedly it did have the fuse.
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