It's gone

[Chippygeoff]

To the right of the saw on my scroll saw bench I have a little box with the bits and pieces I need at hand, in the box are things like the hex key for blade changing, various allen keys, a pair of tweezers, a spare bottom clamp and last but not least a very handy little tool. it is like a large needle with a narrow handle on it. I use this to lift the edge of the pattern off the wood when I have finished cutting but the most useful aspect of this little tool is pushing the little cut outs through. I was doing exactly this earlier, pushing a letter out of a name sign when I dropped it. I felt it hit my shoe, which was resting on the foot switch. I pulled the chair away and looked for it, no where to be seen. I moved the scrap bin, the Henry vacuum, apart from a few little bits of scrap on the floor there was nothing else. It's just as though it had disappeared into thin air. It's amazing, all that floor space to fall on and yet not a sign of it. I have heard this happen to other members with blade clamps. It just does not make any sense, where else is there for it to go. Do things grow wings when they fall.

 

[Claymore]

do you have a powerful magnet? if so stick it on a bit of scrap wood and poke around under your bench or you can always wait until your blonde assistant arrives and get her on her hands and knees to look for it! lol 9-)

 

[marcros]

Or put a pair of tights over the end of the Henry and see it you can find it by hoovering around. If it is very dusty down there it won't work but I seem to re ally your workshop being pretty clean.

 

[Chippygeoff]

I got under the bench with a powerful light and one of those telescopic magnetic tools but to no avail. The floor was more or less spotless. Now I will have to drag other benches away from the wall to look and they are several feet away from the saw, the saw occupies the middle of the workshop.

 

[bugbear]

I got under the bench with a powerful light and one of those telescopic magnetic tools but to no avail. The floor was more or less spotless. Now I will have to drag other benches away from the wall to look and they are several feet away from the saw, the saw occupies the middle of the workshop.

I've had objects drop from my workmate (so only a short drop) and travel far further horizontally than they fell, by a factor of 2 - 3.

BugBear

 

[scrimper]

but the most useful aspect of this little tool is pushing the little cut outs through.

That's interesting, drives me mad that does; little cut outs that stubbornly won't drop out, I fiddle about with the end of a blade that's nearby which often bends but it seems I will do anything no matter how awkward and inefficient to remove these cuts out rather than get up off my seat and get something better to do the job, then I think to myself I must leave an implement near the saw to do this but I never get around to it !

Another annoyance to me is when cutting tiny bit's out a piece drops through and into the blade hole stopping me rotating the work piece !

 

[ChrisR]

Geoff.

As you know I have painted the blade clamps yellow, that I use on the bottom of the blade, to make them easier to find on the floor.

However a few weeks back, a blade broke and the bottom clamp flipped out as normal, but could I find it, no way, I moved everything that it could be hiding under, and had to give up the search.

But on standing up, which is very slow in my case, I just spotted a glimpse of yellow between the base of the saw and its stand, there was the clamp, how if flipped in that direction beggars belief. :?

So a long story to say have you looked under the base of the saw, just a thought.

Take care.

Chris R.

 

[Chippygeoff]

Chris. I sometimes have the same problem with those little cut outs, they drop through the blade hole and often jam and in the past has prevented the blade from going where it should and the piece has been ruined.

John. By the side of my saw bench standing on the floor I have a 3 foot length of soil pipe with an end cap glued to the base, this is my bin where the little cut outs end up along with blunt blades. My little tool was in there. Heavens knows how it bounced off my shoe into the bin. Many weird things happen in the workshop that just cannot be explained. Somewhere in the workshop are at least 3 lower blade clamps and it's a good job I have several spare ones, very secure in my box of Hegner bits and pieces.