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As many of you know i purchased a 14" radial arm saw about a year ago. I got it up and running at the family cottage and completed a few projects with it this year. It was time to bring it to the home shop, so some disassembly was required. The machine only weighs about 750 lbs., but it has to be broken down to manageable size pieces to get it through the house and down to the shop. I got it disassembled and transported it home last week. The pieces are now sitting in the garage waiting for space in the shop.
Now that there's enough room to move things around in the garage at the cottage it's time to reinstall the drill press on the bench. Unfortunately, before the garage was rebuilt a mouse got into the main head casting and made a nest next to the spindle. With all the mouse urine and nest makings the spindle became so rusted and corroded it would no longer move in the housing. Last week I had to disassemble the head and attempt to remove the spindle. It was so tight in the bore that I had to use a brass drift to remove it. The pieces are now in the shop and the cleanup should start today. Hopefully all it will take is a little polishing and deburring a couple spots where the drift made some marks on the bearing housing.
Once that's done it's time to make room for the "new" radial arm saw. That will entail disassembling and removing the 10" Dewalt saw to make room. I've moved it to the garage on a number of occasions in the past to complete large projects. This will probably be its last move since it now has a new home just outside Waupaca WI. It's going to a friend to be used to cut newly sawed timber to standard dimensional lengths. He has been using his portable sawmill to cut logs to standard dimensions i.e. 2"x 4", 2"x 6" 2"x 8" etc., etc. To this point the lumber has been left to whatever its original length was for curing. Now that most of the lumber has dried it's time to cut it to length.
Hopefully with all the pictures I've taken I can reassemble all the machines and get back to using them. Below are a few pictures of the disassembled 14" saw in the garage, the drill press spindle in the shop, and the 10" saw waiting to be moved. The fifth picture is a twin of the drill press at the cottage. If my memory goes bad, or the pictures don't make sense, I can always disassemble one more machine to get the proper parts layout and rientation.
Now that there's enough room to move things around in the garage at the cottage it's time to reinstall the drill press on the bench. Unfortunately, before the garage was rebuilt a mouse got into the main head casting and made a nest next to the spindle. With all the mouse urine and nest makings the spindle became so rusted and corroded it would no longer move in the housing. Last week I had to disassemble the head and attempt to remove the spindle. It was so tight in the bore that I had to use a brass drift to remove it. The pieces are now in the shop and the cleanup should start today. Hopefully all it will take is a little polishing and deburring a couple spots where the drift made some marks on the bearing housing.
Once that's done it's time to make room for the "new" radial arm saw. That will entail disassembling and removing the 10" Dewalt saw to make room. I've moved it to the garage on a number of occasions in the past to complete large projects. This will probably be its last move since it now has a new home just outside Waupaca WI. It's going to a friend to be used to cut newly sawed timber to standard dimensional lengths. He has been using his portable sawmill to cut logs to standard dimensions i.e. 2"x 4", 2"x 6" 2"x 8" etc., etc. To this point the lumber has been left to whatever its original length was for curing. Now that most of the lumber has dried it's time to cut it to length.
Hopefully with all the pictures I've taken I can reassemble all the machines and get back to using them. Below are a few pictures of the disassembled 14" saw in the garage, the drill press spindle in the shop, and the 10" saw waiting to be moved. The fifth picture is a twin of the drill press at the cottage. If my memory goes bad, or the pictures don't make sense, I can always disassemble one more machine to get the proper parts layout and rientation.
