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Power hacksaw Rebuild
ilia-45:
Thank you guys for the kind words :beer:
This machine has already paid off a hundred times, I can not imagine how he had lived without,it is sawn half a dozen pounds of aluminum :thumbup:
And by the way,in this section, there is a restoration by me over the drilling machine:
http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=3480.0
:nrocks:
LKeithR:
Very nice job on the restoration. We had an identical saw in our shop many years ago--it served us well. Keep it well greased and the gibs snugged up and it will cut straighter than any bandsaw. We rebushed the crank once or twice and also the pump mechanism that provides the lift--keep that working well so the blade really lifts slightly on the backstroke and your blades will stay sharper and last a lot longer. If you're cutting only solids you can get away with a pretty coarse blade--it's been awhile so I'm guessing perhaps 6 tpi--but we settled on something around 10 tpi for general cutting. Something in the range of a 5/8 vari-tooth would be a good compromise if you can get one. Funny, it's been close to 25 years since we got rid of it but as I'm sit here writing this I can hear the thing chugging away in the background, just as it did in the shop. It wasn't particularly fast but it was comforting to hear it ticking away on a piece of 6" round or square while you worked on something else...
krv3000:
A job well dun
DaveH:
ilia,
You did a very nice job. :clap: :clap: :clap: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
:beer:
DaveH
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