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A few months ago I found this old Continental bandsaw at a local store.
It had been used for cutting wood, I wanted it for metal.
With the original blade it cut that piece of pine when powered by one finger in the wheel spokes.
My current vertical, metal-cutting bandsaw was homemade (not by me) and I always noticed a flex in the frame.
You can tell by all the cut-offs on the table that it certainly has been useful.
The upper wheel would actually move closer to the lower wheel in pulses as the wheel turned. I suspect one wheel is eccentric, and I always meant to fix that.......but.....when I saw the heavy frame on this Continental saw I decided it was simply time to upgrade.
This frame won't flex!
However, the "new" saw is so heavy that I think it would crush the plywood box that the other saw sat on.
I needed to find something stronger.
I took the Continental saw off of it's old base:
and dug out this old heavy frame that I picked up when my in-laws moved.....
It originally had a wood table top in that angle frame, but it was rotten from being stored outside...
I also had to replace the ball-bearings in the swivel castors they were seized tight.
I added the two (unpainted and with chalk marks) internal horizontal pieces of 2" x 1/4" angle for the saw to sit on.
That gets the band saw table to about 46" from the floor comfortable for me.
There's more to come....stay tuned.
-brino
It had been used for cutting wood, I wanted it for metal.
With the original blade it cut that piece of pine when powered by one finger in the wheel spokes.
My current vertical, metal-cutting bandsaw was homemade (not by me) and I always noticed a flex in the frame.
You can tell by all the cut-offs on the table that it certainly has been useful.
The upper wheel would actually move closer to the lower wheel in pulses as the wheel turned. I suspect one wheel is eccentric, and I always meant to fix that.......but.....when I saw the heavy frame on this Continental saw I decided it was simply time to upgrade.
This frame won't flex!
However, the "new" saw is so heavy that I think it would crush the plywood box that the other saw sat on.
I needed to find something stronger.
I took the Continental saw off of it's old base:
and dug out this old heavy frame that I picked up when my in-laws moved.....
It originally had a wood table top in that angle frame, but it was rotten from being stored outside...
I also had to replace the ball-bearings in the swivel castors they were seized tight.
I added the two (unpainted and with chalk marks) internal horizontal pieces of 2" x 1/4" angle for the saw to sit on.
That gets the band saw table to about 46" from the floor comfortable for me.
There's more to come....stay tuned.
-brino