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14 pictures – will take 3 posts. This one is an accessory to three projects so far, and this thread shows an interesting evolution. Don’t know how I lived without it! Pic#1 - is the band saw on a steel tube base I built around 1990. 2x4x3/16 steel tube, Miller 35 turned up pretty far, co2, .035. Drilled & tapped for ½-13 setscrew plug and filled with #60 used silica [pool filter? sandblast?] sand for damping. Heavier than ...I had no problem moving it in any garage or shop with a two wheeler [hand truck] slid under between the back feet. Had to reach thru the hand truck and grab the neck(?) for stability. Then I moved it here. The patio is frustrating to say the least. Pic#2&3 – the floor in this area is the good part! Drilled 1-5/8” hole thru upright for 1-1/4” sched 40 pipe. Jigged to slice with slitter wheel.Pic#4 – holesaw 3/16 strap for axle ends.Pic#5 – axle housing, sorry no weld pic, already sanded. HH140, .035 flux core [the $37/11# @ HD wire], power 4, speed 50. Did get thru penetration to ‘keyhole’.Next post … Attached ImagesLast edited by Fabn4Fun; 11-23-2011 at 10:45 PM.
Reply:Pic#6 - Axle housing from pic #5 welded to upright, same settings.Pic#7 braced with drop from 5/8 H.R. axle, wire brushed, primed, wheels on. Those cheap HF $8 solid rubber 10x2.5 wheels - are verrrrry handy! Pic#8 - 1-1/4 sched 40 pipe socket welded to side for handle. Pic#9 Finished and painted. The rusty 1 sch 40 pipe [leaning between saw & grinder] slips into socket, then I lift it like a wheelbarrow [not shown] handle and roll it around! Pic#10 Show us your weld !!! ... after some failure testing. Sorta ... it loox kinda cold, I actually had to completely slice thru one weld and twist off the other with about 18" of pipe wrench to get it off. At that point I decided the HH140 was a hot glue gun. Epic fail. It was then I decided I needed a REAL welder. [a future thread.] The weld worked fine for its intended [xtra lite duty] purpose though. And the round pipe & socket worked good until I tried that arrangement on my HF cement mixer. It slid all over the place simply did NOT work! So I decided to use a square handle [which I already had] on both. Next post
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Reply:Pic#11 Then I made the same socket / pipe handle for the HF cement mixer - another Epic Fail! Unbolted it and threw it in the scrap drawer.Pic#12 After chopping the 1 ¼ pipe socket off the band saw, added 1x11ga square tube socket to fit tee handle instead of round. Works better, gr8 in fact!. Dont have weld closeup. Nor any more matching paint! Pic#13 Mixer socket; 1x11ga tube welded to a 1.5x3/16x4 strap.Pic#14 Primed, painted - rattlecan Rusto and bolted on. Pic#15 In use. 1x11ga handle with a ¾x 16ga tube plug welded inside with 4 stickout to slide into socket. When I pick up one side of the tee handle, the twist locks the inside tube to the socket by friction. Works very well, but not perfect.Handle comes from here - 11 yr old already! : http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=62928 Attached Images
Reply:Nice mods. The band saw looks factory. I bet your back is happier
Reply:Nice job. Very handy mods.I have the exact same mixer. Am going to use your idea and do the same thing.Thanks.Sign on East Texas payphone: Calls to God 40 cents......it's a local call...
Reply:Do you use your bandsaw for wood or do you also use it for metal? If you use it for metal what are the sizes of your pulleys?I like the use of unistrut for the fence mount......Seems I've seen that before a long time ago in a wood working magazine?Glenn.Sign on East Texas payphone: Calls to God 40 cents......it's a local call...
Reply:I like having the grinder right above the gas valve. It will notify you if you have any leaks.
Reply:Originally Posted by gow589I like having the grinder right above the gas valve. It will notify you if you have any leaks.
Reply:Originally Posted by gow589I like having the grinder right above the gas valve. It will notify you if you have any leaks.
Reply:@ 7A749, @forhire, @Stampeder; Thanks! @Stampeder;The bandsaw is now used for wood and aluminum, etc. I think that's optimum at 1500 sfpm [surface feet per minute]. Wanted to do it for steel but it's pretty messy. Was going to do a jackshaft - 2" pulley @ 1728rpm motor to 8" at jackshaft to 2" to 8" at bandsaw lower shaft = 108rpm for 14" bottom wheel x Pi = 396 sfpm. That's a little above the range of the Milwaukee Portabands. Optimum seems to be 150-200 sfpm. Maybe 10" pulleys would bring it down. Yes it would ... to 69rpm = 253 sfpm. Do I have that right?The big issue is lubricating the blade [like a drop saw] covers everything with that crappy oil. Wood ain't too happy with that. That Unistrut looked like the perfect fence rail. Easy to square and clamp to.@Gow, @Smokin, @Welding;Didnt want to push this back to the top just to reply to these three replies ... but ... Wow! Didnt even notice that gas meter there! Can I really get that 2psi gas out of the sched 40 pipe to get those massive explosions like they get in the movies??? [took the Universal Studio's tour in 1990 - but still haven't figure'd that out yet!]At that time, the I asked the gas co out for a quote on moving the meter. They ran the sniffer on it and ZERO!!! Not even any PPMs Also this is outdoors on the patio with constant air movement and the BBQ about 10 away. And lots of saw/grinder/etc motor brushes are being used there almost every day. Also a BIG shower of sparks not visible in pic's #2 & 3. Sorry guys, it just don't show in the pix.Also, how many of you can use even a lightweight bench grinder [cheapest HF] thats NOT fastened down? I tried, didnt work; and its slightly too low for me to comfortably see to sharpen tools on. So I moved it to about shoulder level on the post just left of the welder in pic#2. Since this thread is a response to tsmutz's $30 Mobility
thread, I thought Id add another trick from the distant past, forgotten for decades, and now pops into my mind to use again.Welding Table yeah I know, not so good
but only temporary needs to be moved back and forth on the patio. Two 18ga galv 3070 HM doors plus about 24 of 14ga purlin weighs about 100#. No help around when I need it, so: Handtrucks! [old commercial ... Dont leave home without em"] I know all you guys have at least two! And probably half of everybody know's this one already ... The wood scraps provide the height needed to pick up the crossbars. Push the blue one down a foot and move it easy.Thanks for lookin! Attached Images |
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