AlbertoA
Established Member
Hello, also thanks to this forum I purchased an Axminster AWFS18 fretsaw, I had a Proxxon that was extremely powerful, but blade change was a nightmare and the aluminum table was not that... great.
The mass of this is impressive. I used to keep the Proxxon on a MD bench (not my "woodworking" bench...) and it was fine, this one would jump on it, so I placed it on a 16" jointer... no vibration at all .
Thanks to someone here (I cannot remember whom to say thanks to)... I changed from the short stroke to the long.
Started it and... tensioning the blade slightly more I had a "surprise", the saw started to really jump... Stopped it and I realized there was something wrong, the arm would not scroll freely.
Releasing tension it would run free again.
I discovered that behind the arm there is the "stop"
and tensioning the blade or using a longer blade (I tried with those blades with pins that having no clamps sits directly on the "fingers") the rear of the arms hit this "pin" that is designed to stop the lifting of the upper arm.
What would you do? I was going to file away some of it to gain a little room for tensioning or maybe shorten the distance between the two clamp holders to effectively shorten the blade (so the rear of the arm would be away from the pin)?
Has any of the owners had the same problem?
Thanks,
Alberto
The mass of this is impressive. I used to keep the Proxxon on a MD bench (not my "woodworking" bench...) and it was fine, this one would jump on it, so I placed it on a 16" jointer... no vibration at all .
Thanks to someone here (I cannot remember whom to say thanks to)... I changed from the short stroke to the long.
Started it and... tensioning the blade slightly more I had a "surprise", the saw started to really jump... Stopped it and I realized there was something wrong, the arm would not scroll freely.
Releasing tension it would run free again.
I discovered that behind the arm there is the "stop"
and tensioning the blade or using a longer blade (I tried with those blades with pins that having no clamps sits directly on the "fingers") the rear of the arms hit this "pin" that is designed to stop the lifting of the upper arm.
What would you do? I was going to file away some of it to gain a little room for tensioning or maybe shorten the distance between the two clamp holders to effectively shorten the blade (so the rear of the arm would be away from the pin)?
Has any of the owners had the same problem?
Thanks,
Alberto