Motor for 20" Doall Saw?

[Chips O'Toole]

I was goofing around on Craigslist today when I saw a Doall 20" vertical band saw priced at $400. It looks like some caring person let it get rained on, but...$400.

The saw lacks a motor. I just happen to have a 2HP 184-frame 1725-RPM motor sitting in my shop. Does anyone know what kind of motor Doall 20" saws came with? I don't know the model number of the saw. I was sort of hoping all 20" Doall vertical band saws used the same motor.

 

[benmychree]

the motor that you describe would be fine for it, it looks like a good deal for a "project" does it have the two speed transmission for metal cutting? I do not see a variable speed crank or the speed range lever, may be just for high speed use, make sure before taking the plunge!

 

[Chips O'Toole]

The ad says it has a two-speed transmission. It looks like this thing weighs 1200 pounds!

 

[NCjeeper]

I have a 1943 16" Doall that looks like that. Mine has the 2 speed trans and the weight sounds about right.

 

[Martin W]

With a little love that will be a great saw.
My V26 DoAll has a 2 hp motor. I will check this morning to see what make the motor is. I believe its the original motor. I need to have a look anyways. That is the only thing I don't like about these saws. They have this big bulky heavy steel box covering the gearbox and motor. Its easy to forget to oil parts in there and check the gearbox oil level.
Mine takes 192" bandsaw blades. When I bought mine he threw in about 10 full metal tins of blades. I get about 7 blades from a tin so I have not had to buy any yet.
1200 pounds sounds about right. Not the easiest things to move, but do roll nice on some metal pipes
Cheers
Martin

 

[Downunder Bob]

It looks like a beauty, with a little love it would be a great saw. We had one looked just like it in the tool room where I did my apprenticeship, from memory it had 3 speeds, via belt change, they were all slow, but then we only ever cut metal and often times it was tool steel, annealed of course, but still heavy going.

Ours did have a blade welder mounted on the front about where that stop/ start switch is. We'd often use that welder to rejoin a blade after we had cut it to fit through a hole in a block of tool steel, re-weld the blade and cut out the shape we wanted, then cut the blade again to remove it.

This continuous cutting and re welding the blades always resulted in blades getting shorter, eventually we would have to weld in an extra piece to get it long enough. It was not uncommon for a blade to have a dozen or so joins in it. But they still worked.

As long as you ran them comfortably below the maximum cutting speed they lasted a long time.

 

[Martin W]

Yes mine is a 2 hp 225 frame General Electric motor

 

[Martin W]

Some pictures of my saw
cheers
martin

 

[middle.road]

Some pictures of my saw
cheers
martin

Built-in blade welder AND a speed indicator - how neat! Now that's a saw.

 

[Chips O'Toole]

Thanks for all the help! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas.