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30th Mar 2021, 10:51 PM #16Most Valued Member
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30th Mar 2021, 11:30 PM #17
Do you recall at high school man arts? I do and they used to make us back off the blade tension screw on the hacksaws before we put them away.
Years later as a man arts teacher I have seen plenty of hacksaws that the bows ended up with a greater bend in them than they were made with.
I am no engineer and cannot say how much the missing metal would much effect the deflection of your bandsaw bow.
Grahame
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28th Feb 2024, 11:39 PM #18Most Valued Member
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Happened to find this on You Tube and thought it of some good helpful ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ynwfQQyswk
HTH
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29th Feb 2024, 10:02 AM #19I break stuff...
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I started making an outboard table like that for my 7x12, but I used about 16mm thick angle iron. The idea being I could drill and tap various holes in it to allow using the clamp set from the mill to hold down weird shaped stuff that wouldn't go nicely in the vise, perhaps clamp an ER collet block down to hold something, etc. Machined the draft on the shaper, drilled and tapped the holes, bolted it on to check fit, and that's as far as I got, it's still hanging on there. Getting a proper vertical bandsaw kind of solved the odd shaped parts need (mostly)...
I wanted to make a rear jaw/fence to catch the offcuts that always seemed to fire off towards the back of the machine at a great rate so I didn't have to stand there to play catch, but surprisingly even just having the bit of table under it seems to stop them wanting to go anywhere much, which makes it well worth the effort.
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29th Feb 2024, 11:39 AM #20Most Valued Member
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One thing I saw interesting sometime ago, was to use a DP/toolmakers vise for cutting round or odd shaped items on a vertical bandsaw, to stop them rotating.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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29th Feb 2024, 03:02 PM #21Diamond Member
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29th Feb 2024, 10:27 PM #22Most Valued Member
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At least it'll be here and easy to find now.
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