Author Topic: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?  (Read 49705 times)

Offline jgroom

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 87
  • Country: us
  • Kansas USA
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #50 on: September 26, 2009, 11:45:14 AM »
Hmmmm....  I believe that's just the ticket for taking off that pesky extra couple feet from the old minivan  :)

Jeff

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #51 on: September 26, 2009, 01:13:20 PM »
Enough of all this talk about bandsaws and hacksaws, just get a machine in that will cope with anything that is liable to crop up in the future.

Hmm  :scratch: I wonder if I could get that into the boot of a Vectra to bring it home?  :lol:


Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

Offline jim

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 441
  • Country: 00
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #52 on: September 26, 2009, 01:30:06 PM »
been using the bandsaw today, 2" mild steel, i just had a fag and let the machine do the work :lol: :lol: :lol:
if i'd thought it through, i'd have never tried it

Offline John Hill

  • The Artful Bodger
  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2016
  • Country: nz
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #53 on: September 26, 2009, 03:41:02 PM »
I chopped up some 20mm plate on my cold saw yesterday and I think my shoulder can still fell the pressure of the handle on that thing. 

Being the miserable git that I am the total loss flood coolant I use comes straight from the garden house and I notice this morning that we have a nasty rusty stain on the driveway. :doh:
From the den of The Artful Bodger

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #54 on: October 05, 2009, 10:27:46 AM »
Just a little update to this, I decided to get a bandsaw, and ended up getting a Chester HV128. I went to their Chester office and saw it and then got one. I will post up a complete write-up on it detailing my attempts to set it up and first impressions ect when I get home.

I'm writing this on the ferry on the Irish sea, (the wonders of technology) so I should start the write up over the next few days.


Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

Offline Darren

  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3795
  • N/Wales
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #55 on: October 05, 2009, 10:31:44 AM »
Don't tell me you are ferryin it home yourself .....  :jaw:


You'll be pleased with it, a couple of small mods and they are very capable machines....  :thumbup:
You will find it a distinct help… if you know and look as if you know what you are doing. (IRS training manual)

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #56 on: October 05, 2009, 10:57:27 AM »
Don't tell me you are ferryin it home yourself .....  :jaw:

Cheaper than the shipping charges  :lol:

Fortunately the box fitted nicely into the boot. They did have a couple of demo-models that were for sale for a bit cheaper, but they were built up and I didnt fancy the gearbox oil spilling out over the boot and luggage  ( that might have been hard to explain to the better half ) so I decided to get a new one.

I was over visiting my better halfs family in Burnley, so on friday while my darling went shopping with her mother, I also went shopping, went to chestertools and then went for a rummage in RDG ( nice people there, very friendly )

Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

Offline Darren

  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3795
  • N/Wales
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #57 on: October 05, 2009, 11:09:05 AM »
Oh you took the car, and there was me thinking you carrying it home..... :doh:

We're a bit tight at this end see, don't have the wealth you Irish have so we go by foot.

Not that I've ever been to Ireland mind ...  :coffee:
You will find it a distinct help… if you know and look as if you know what you are doing. (IRS training manual)

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #58 on: October 05, 2009, 11:19:21 AM »
We're a bit tight at this end see, don't have the wealth you Irish have so we go by foot.

True, true  ::) the problem is we keep drinking it all  :lol: Whiskey was created to prevent the Irish from ruling the world, and it's worked too  :)



Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

Offline jim

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 441
  • Country: 00
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #59 on: October 05, 2009, 11:45:09 AM »
good news :clap:

first thing i did was have a search on ebay for bimetal blades for mine. got 2 for £15.

i really hope that you get instructions for the stand, took me ages to put that together (i ended up on the interweb zooming in on pictures :doh:)
if i'd thought it through, i'd have never tried it

Offline Darren

  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3795
  • N/Wales
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #60 on: October 05, 2009, 11:48:33 AM »
If it's anything like my stand you'll be wanting to build another.

An upcoming project ....  :ddb:

It's about the only part of the saw that lets it down.
You will find it a distinct help… if you know and look as if you know what you are doing. (IRS training manual)

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #61 on: October 05, 2009, 02:10:21 PM »
If it's anything like my stand you'll be wanting to build another.

Yea, I've been led to believe that the stand is not the greatest.

I will document my findings and report back  :coffee:

Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

Offline CrewCab

  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 851
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #62 on: October 05, 2009, 02:50:59 PM »
while my darling went shopping with her mother, I also went shopping,
 Bet you spent a lot less  :bugeye:

Nice folk at RDG aren't they, it's fairly close to me and I spend far too much money time there   :smart:

Have fun with the new toy  :headbang:

CC

bogstandard

  • Guest
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #63 on: October 18, 2009, 05:36:16 PM »
Just something that might be relevent.

I was surfing tonight and came across this.


Bogs

Offline one_rod

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 110
  • Country: gb
  • Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #64 on: October 18, 2009, 06:39:36 PM »
Yes, unfortunately I have seen that happen. Not fun. The one we had had a plastic belt cover which got completely smashed off in the tumble. The company I was working for at the time had bought it for some small work they had to do. The supplier wasn't able to sell them a spare cover so the whole thing went straight in the scrap bin. Sad but true.

Anyway, on a lighter note:
Here's my donkey saw.



Got it from a scrap yard. It was just a big ball of dirt and rust, with a bird's nest in the middle.
The scrappy threw it on the weighbridge and sold it me for it's weight in cast iron.
It took a lot of work to get it into this condition, but was definitely worth it.
I love the thing.
It will munch it's way through anything that will fit in the vice, and it's a big vice.
Just leave it running and go off and do other things.
Blades are comparatively cheap and last for ages. The good ones are solid HSS, so when they do finally wear out, I grind them up to make knives, scrapers and welding slag chippers.



one_rod.





 



"A season ticket for the one way ride..."

Offline spuddevans

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1618
  • Country: 00
  • Portadown, Northern Ireland
    • My Photo website
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #65 on: October 19, 2009, 10:48:39 AM »
Just something that might be relevent.

I was surfing tonight and came across this.


Bogs

I dont have that potential problem with mine, it didnt come with any wheels at all  :(


Tim
Measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe  -  MI0TME

bogstandard

  • Guest
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #66 on: October 19, 2009, 11:45:19 AM »
Well if it did Tim, you would now know which end to stick 'em on.


Bogs

Offline Darren

  • Madmodder Committee
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3795
  • N/Wales
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #67 on: October 19, 2009, 12:05:40 PM »
I've had two of these saws over a span of about 15yrs, I move mine about quite a bit as and when it's needed and I can't say I've ever had this springing up happen  :scratch:

But what I do intend to do is make a new stand for mine with four wheels to make my life easier. The original stand is naff anyway and not far off being dangerous.

Being a bandsaw as opposed to a hacksaw there is no backwards an forwards force so should be quite stable on four wheels
You will find it a distinct help… if you know and look as if you know what you are doing. (IRS training manual)

Offline mklotz

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 260
  • Country: us
  • LA, CA, USA
    • Software For People Who Build Things
Re: Bandsaw or powered hacksaw, Which to get?
« Reply #68 on: October 19, 2009, 12:20:25 PM »
That's what I did to mine.

I chainsawed a standard pallet in half and attached four casters to the bottom of the pallet.  The saw sits unattached on the pallet.

In addition to making it much easier and safer to move, it raises the saw to a more comfortable (at least for me) working height.
Regards, Marv

Home Shop Freeware
https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz