heimlaga
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As some of you who frequent other forums might know I am on a very long sick leave recovering from some rather serious back trouble. I am training every day and making good progress and the doctors predict a more or less full recovery. My 12 years old chronical back pain is completely gone after and I am slowly getting stronger.
I am planning to do more jonery and less carpentry than before when I recover.
To make use of those few hours a day that I am able to do productive work I putting together some good machinery from old junk and scrap yard materials on a minimum budget. They will hopefully help me get a flying start once I can work proper workdays again. Probably the coming spring.
My next project will probably be a rip saw.
Everything started several years ago when I found that I needed a rip saw with power feed. A logosol KS 150 http://www.logosol.se/store/logosol-klyvsag-ks150.html would have been ideal but that would cost way too much money.
Then I found this old rip saw.
Standing in a willow brush with moss growing on the table behind a former cattle barn. It was manufactured by Chemnitzer Werkzeugmachinenfabrik in Germany in 1885. I soaked all nuts and bolts in penetrating oil and cleaned and painted the frame and melted out the worn out white metal bearings. Had a new shaft made and bought two triple v-belt pulleys and found a very cheap secondhand 7,5 kW three phase motor. Found a secondhand industrial roller table at a scrap yard and bought it intending to use it as outfeed table.
Then the project stopped due to bad health.
Now I am planning a fresh start. I want to make this saw safe and efficient enough for a professional environment.
-Overarm blade guard
-Dust hood below the table.
-Riving knife.
-Electric motor with v-belt drive and of cause belt guard.
-Modern electrics.
-New white metal bearings.
-Some kind of power feeder.
-New fence
I have fabricated quite a bit of machine parts and guards in the past so I wiew this as totally feasible.
I just want to know if people with experience of old style rip saws in small scale industrial use have any oppinions on how things should be made to work well. Can I use an ordinary stock feeder of the type usually used for spindle moulders? Should the fence be a metal plate or should it have rollers? Suggestions on a good overarm guard design?
Hoping for some suggestions!
I am planning to do more jonery and less carpentry than before when I recover.
To make use of those few hours a day that I am able to do productive work I putting together some good machinery from old junk and scrap yard materials on a minimum budget. They will hopefully help me get a flying start once I can work proper workdays again. Probably the coming spring.
My next project will probably be a rip saw.
Everything started several years ago when I found that I needed a rip saw with power feed. A logosol KS 150 http://www.logosol.se/store/logosol-klyvsag-ks150.html would have been ideal but that would cost way too much money.
Then I found this old rip saw.
Standing in a willow brush with moss growing on the table behind a former cattle barn. It was manufactured by Chemnitzer Werkzeugmachinenfabrik in Germany in 1885. I soaked all nuts and bolts in penetrating oil and cleaned and painted the frame and melted out the worn out white metal bearings. Had a new shaft made and bought two triple v-belt pulleys and found a very cheap secondhand 7,5 kW three phase motor. Found a secondhand industrial roller table at a scrap yard and bought it intending to use it as outfeed table.
Then the project stopped due to bad health.
Now I am planning a fresh start. I want to make this saw safe and efficient enough for a professional environment.
-Overarm blade guard
-Dust hood below the table.
-Riving knife.
-Electric motor with v-belt drive and of cause belt guard.
-Modern electrics.
-New white metal bearings.
-Some kind of power feeder.
-New fence
I have fabricated quite a bit of machine parts and guards in the past so I wiew this as totally feasible.
I just want to know if people with experience of old style rip saws in small scale industrial use have any oppinions on how things should be made to work well. Can I use an ordinary stock feeder of the type usually used for spindle moulders? Should the fence be a metal plate or should it have rollers? Suggestions on a good overarm guard design?
Hoping for some suggestions!
