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ran into recurring work where the job shop's ol' DoALL was acquired without the dang fence.
WTH? Great as bandsaws are, [ie] saving material and attaining rough outs within .020 or so, they kick butt with proper setups. In my book, setup means repeatable parts in group under current attention.
Better yet when you retrieve and use again. Consider. Any expenditure on the item, divide that by how many parts it processed on first run [X]. Put it the shelf, and IDGARA [referring to a small mammals posterior] what accountants manipulate, it's value could increase while cost been divided by X amount. New RFQ comes in, are we going to make them?
Well, tool # so&so is on hand,...New shop rate? Chach-ching. Bob knows how? Chach-ching. Know where I'm going with this?
That scenario never played out here. 2"Ø swing bolts 18" long of 4130. Not worst stuff to machine, but sawing the shank is 27" from material 4" wide. I've made them twice before; but they've done them for y-e-a-r-s, free hand no less! My first, they were rush order, pretty much the second also, prospect making 16 of these [= 432 inches, does 36 feet sound better, handsawn]? Second set I clamped different bars to table as stock guide, dreadfully tedious, NTM unproductive elsewhere. They get center drilled carefully as raw 2 x 4 x 18, both ends, for single point threading. 2" 4 1/2 TPI.
Online, the fence is just under $1000 USD. Not in local stock. DoALL isn't economical, but it's good. Real good. But's already Thursday afternoon.
My answer follows. 3 pics save 30k words? Does for me, case you haven't noticed.
Every bit is remnant or drop, except commercial hardware.
2 clamp knobs 3/8"-16 inboard of adjustment [squaring] set screws 3/8"-24 & jam nuts. Squaring register
is blade slot and my trained finger. Piece o' cake. Allow clearance; at least .025 to square up, and .010 minimum.
First mounted, factory holes not dead parallel of top, so slide bound up moving side to side.
Easy fix, easier to know ahead of time.
Front plate is separate from assembly. Configuration of machine,
a 3 wheeler, the guard for 2-wheeling impedes full lateral motion, left side of course, blade in the way.
All comes off instantly loosening the cap screws near top edge, keyholes for screw heads, slide over half an inch.
Bingo. Front rail remains a bit lower than flush.
Ultimately, will saw fat nose off on left side [taper] adding lateral movement.
There are details here and there; that I can answer questions,
just good engineering about fit and function.
Blueprint? rarely. Sketches? maybe, any demand? Helpful Advice? catch me if you can.
Lol. JK, sure I do.
WTH? Great as bandsaws are, [ie] saving material and attaining rough outs within .020 or so, they kick butt with proper setups. In my book, setup means repeatable parts in group under current attention.
Better yet when you retrieve and use again. Consider. Any expenditure on the item, divide that by how many parts it processed on first run [X]. Put it the shelf, and IDGARA [referring to a small mammals posterior] what accountants manipulate, it's value could increase while cost been divided by X amount. New RFQ comes in, are we going to make them?
Well, tool # so&so is on hand,...New shop rate? Chach-ching. Bob knows how? Chach-ching. Know where I'm going with this?
That scenario never played out here. 2"Ø swing bolts 18" long of 4130. Not worst stuff to machine, but sawing the shank is 27" from material 4" wide. I've made them twice before; but they've done them for y-e-a-r-s, free hand no less! My first, they were rush order, pretty much the second also, prospect making 16 of these [= 432 inches, does 36 feet sound better, handsawn]? Second set I clamped different bars to table as stock guide, dreadfully tedious, NTM unproductive elsewhere. They get center drilled carefully as raw 2 x 4 x 18, both ends, for single point threading. 2" 4 1/2 TPI.
Online, the fence is just under $1000 USD. Not in local stock. DoALL isn't economical, but it's good. Real good. But's already Thursday afternoon.
My answer follows. 3 pics save 30k words? Does for me, case you haven't noticed.
Every bit is remnant or drop, except commercial hardware.
2 clamp knobs 3/8"-16 inboard of adjustment [squaring] set screws 3/8"-24 & jam nuts. Squaring register
is blade slot and my trained finger. Piece o' cake. Allow clearance; at least .025 to square up, and .010 minimum.
First mounted, factory holes not dead parallel of top, so slide bound up moving side to side.
Easy fix, easier to know ahead of time.
Front plate is separate from assembly. Configuration of machine,
a 3 wheeler, the guard for 2-wheeling impedes full lateral motion, left side of course, blade in the way.
All comes off instantly loosening the cap screws near top edge, keyholes for screw heads, slide over half an inch.
Bingo. Front rail remains a bit lower than flush.
Ultimately, will saw fat nose off on left side [taper] adding lateral movement.
There are details here and there; that I can answer questions,
just good engineering about fit and function.
Blueprint? rarely. Sketches? maybe, any demand? Helpful Advice? catch me if you can.
Lol. JK, sure I do.