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Mine uses a sled with a mounted vise and a gravity autofeed. This pic shows most of it:
The D ring hooks onto the screw that sticks up. That black thing is a pulley. There is a 10 lb weight on the other end of the cord. This works very well and you can walk away during cutting. Gravity keeps a constant force on the cut. That nylon post stops the sled travel after the cut is finished.
I am putting a 1HP servo motor on my drill press. That would probably work very well on a bandsaw. You can find them on eBay for $100. Mine runs at 4000 rpm so with a gear/pulley reduction that should generate a lot of torque. Then you would also have variable speed which I would love to have.
Robert
The D ring hooks onto the screw that sticks up. That black thing is a pulley. There is a 10 lb weight on the other end of the cord. This works very well and you can walk away during cutting. Gravity keeps a constant force on the cut. That nylon post stops the sled travel after the cut is finished.
I am putting a 1HP servo motor on my drill press. That would probably work very well on a bandsaw. You can find them on eBay for $100. Mine runs at 4000 rpm so with a gear/pulley reduction that should generate a lot of torque. Then you would also have variable speed which I would love to have.
Robert