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    Quote Originally Posted by racingtadpole View Post
    Does that mean I’m abusing it more if I take more off with the mill to neaten it up?
    Definitely not.
    As Grahame put it, "Would cleaning it up and removing more metal make any difference. Apart from the damage its probably a better built one than what we get now. I sure hope you can preserve it."

    Kryn
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    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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    Happened to find this on You Tube and thought it of some good helpful ideas.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ynwfQQyswk
    HTH
    Kryn
    To grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

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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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    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.
    Kryn
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    Quote Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore View Post
    Happened to find this on You Tube and thought it of some good helpful ideas.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ynwfQQyswk
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    Kryn

    I watched this video a couple of days ago and liked these mods. Will impliment some in the future.

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    At least it'll be here and easy to find now.
    Kryn
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