Help With Powered Hacksaw Blade

[Travis7s]

I'll be interested to see what you get from KBC Tools on the blades - the blades I have are BIPCO, which is what they show a photo of. I haven't cut much that is very hard, but the seem to cut reasonably well. Mine are 10 tooth - I see they are out of stock on those right now. I think I can use a longer blade with a little adjustment - need to take a couple measurements. I can certainly use a wider blade as it is right now.

I got the blades from KBC, they are BIPICO (made in India is stamped on one them). I got the 10 tooth and the 14 tooth. I think the 14 tooth was non-stock when I ordered and it only took 1 day longer to arrive. I will say that KBC is super wasteful on their postage (their loss). They sent my $19 order in 3 separate UPS shipments, and then sent me 3 separate invoices by snail mail even though I paid online.

Now to hijack a bit... I went to mount my blade and realized I'm not sure how to do it. At the rear end of my blade holder there is a blade sized
slot and a metal pin (this makes sense) but the front end is a wide slot with no holes or anything. Am I missing something?

 

[kingmt01]

It is kind of hard to tell with the angle of the picture. There must be a tensioner missing.

 

[Terrywerm]

Take a look at the photo in this link: http://wapa.us/shows/quartz02/hacksaw.jpg
That should help you. It looks like you either need to find or make a tensioner.

 

[francist]

Travis, this is how it works on my Keller. The holder is a piece of 1/4" bar that slides in the slot to allow tensioning. It's also reversible (end for end) to allow either 14 or 12 inch blades to be used. Maybe this will help in addition to Terry's post.

-frank

 

[Travis7s]

Thanks for the replies. Its hard to find a decent photo of a hacksaw tensioner online! Looks like I'll have to add making one to my to-do list.