Score! Ridgid 14" bandsaw

[Sharky]

This was sitting in my buddy's backyard. And it works!





The teardown...




Paint and reassembly next.

 

[12bolts]

Looking good so far

Cheers Phil

 

[RandyM]

Lucky dog! Sure didn't take long to get it into pieces. Keep us posted.

 

[Sharky]

Cleanup has begun....

Base stripped and painted:


Castings cleaned, had to drill and ez-out a guide pin:




Inside of castings painted:



Making progress!

 

[RandyM]

You going to set it up for wood or metal?

 

[Sharky]

Current plan is for metal, the cast aluminum trunion mount for the table is broken and mostly missing so my thought is a rigid spacer for a non tilt table, stiffer table. Add an 18-24 tooth bi-metal blade and off to the races.

I still need to hunt some bits, top blade guide is MIA, lower guide bearing is rusted solid, and the left-hand bolt i broke by turning it backwards... duh...

 

[sinebar]

Congratulations on the great deal!

I have the same model and it works great on wood and plastics, but I think I would change the motor and/or pulleys on mine if I were to use it for metal cutting (I think it runs too fast for that purpose).

I would like to know what kind of results you get when you get it running.

 

[Sharky]

Finished painting outer castings and a couple brackets:





And BTW, Sinebar, I plan on changing out the pulleys and slowing down the blade.

 

[Bill Gruby]

The trunions on my HF were also broken. (same saw) I made the new ones non movable. Here is a pic.

"Billy G"

 

[Frank865]

You can get replacement trunnions & the missing guide parts you need from Grizzly.
Trunnions are $8.25 each, I've used Grizzly parts on several different brand saws...
Hope this helps.... Frank





http://www.grizzly.com/products/g0555/parts