I got this on New Years Eve of last year, after having been looking for a 36" for a few months.
The guys on the other sites are very helpful, but ofcourse they think I should run a flat belt and vintage motor with it. I really need it up and running asap, and while making my own blade guards and wheel covers is easy enough, the how to power it part is not.
I would like some suggestions on how to get it going WITHOUT making my own flatbelt or atleast making one for cheap, and I'll be running single phase to power it, likely a 5 or 7.5 hp motor, which ever i can find affordably first.
Down the road, when I have time I'll learn to make flatbelts and get a phase converter and all that, but right now I just need to build a proper shop, as my machines have all become part of my living space, and it would be nice to have a decent sized building to home them all, with proper dust management and the like.
I'm pretty poor, but I realized that having a large bandsaw would allow me to do resaw work with free lumber finds, making a decent shop a possible on a budget, so I budgeted for this saw and a small addition to the front of my small house to home it in until I build a real shop. The free lumber is starting to pile up, and I am anxious to begin building.
Yes, I have lots of other smaller equipment, but do to a spinal injury I find it easiest to make cuts on a bandsaw, then make all my pieces to something on it prior to assembly, rather than have to use a bunch of smaller portable tools and wheel my smaller saws outside to do work.
Also, like the saw, I need to source my motor and drive system locally, as I cannot sit in the vehicle for any great length of time to go get things, which means I miss out on a lot of deals which sucks, but that's just the way it is, or else I would have had this up and running already from free and cheap things I've seen on CR.
I'm ok with having to make my own pulleys if someone would suggest the best method of doing so.
I have about 25-30 electric motors on hand that don't have machines, but the largest is only 1.5 hp.
Anyhow, how would you folks power this thing up given my constraints?
It has already otherwise been nicely restored.
Thanks in advance for any and all helpful advice.
The guys on the other sites are very helpful, but ofcourse they think I should run a flat belt and vintage motor with it. I really need it up and running asap, and while making my own blade guards and wheel covers is easy enough, the how to power it part is not.
I would like some suggestions on how to get it going WITHOUT making my own flatbelt or atleast making one for cheap, and I'll be running single phase to power it, likely a 5 or 7.5 hp motor, which ever i can find affordably first.
Down the road, when I have time I'll learn to make flatbelts and get a phase converter and all that, but right now I just need to build a proper shop, as my machines have all become part of my living space, and it would be nice to have a decent sized building to home them all, with proper dust management and the like.
I'm pretty poor, but I realized that having a large bandsaw would allow me to do resaw work with free lumber finds, making a decent shop a possible on a budget, so I budgeted for this saw and a small addition to the front of my small house to home it in until I build a real shop. The free lumber is starting to pile up, and I am anxious to begin building.
Yes, I have lots of other smaller equipment, but do to a spinal injury I find it easiest to make cuts on a bandsaw, then make all my pieces to something on it prior to assembly, rather than have to use a bunch of smaller portable tools and wheel my smaller saws outside to do work.
Also, like the saw, I need to source my motor and drive system locally, as I cannot sit in the vehicle for any great length of time to go get things, which means I miss out on a lot of deals which sucks, but that's just the way it is, or else I would have had this up and running already from free and cheap things I've seen on CR.
I'm ok with having to make my own pulleys if someone would suggest the best method of doing so.
I have about 25-30 electric motors on hand that don't have machines, but the largest is only 1.5 hp.
Anyhow, how would you folks power this thing up given my constraints?
It has already otherwise been nicely restored.
Thanks in advance for any and all helpful advice.