Vanished!

[JimiJimi]

My blade just snapped and my bottom clamp has completely disappeared! If anyone finds it please let me know.

 

[Stooby]

Blimey, I know that problem. I usually find a couple of huge spiders have hidden it!

 

[MattRoberts]

Sweet lord, you have to clamp your bottom?

 

[martinka]

There was a thread about this happening, a couple of years back. I think it was ChrisR who said he painted the clamps yellow to make them easier to spot after a blade break. I tried it with one of mine but it still disappeared. I recently moved house and the old garage is now empty and spotlessly clean, but I never found the clamp. It probably disappeared into the black hole generally known as 'the workshop vac.'

 

[Claymore]

I built a dust extraction box on my Axminster hegner clone that is enclosed with a clear plastic door so when the blade snaps its caught in the box (it has a small piece of mesh to stop the vacuum sucking it up)
I posted details on here last year and could probably be adapted to other machines.
diy-dust-extraction-on-axminster-awfs18-scroll-saw-t91962.html
Cheers
Brian

 

[lanemaux]

Some years ago I stopped in to wish my mechanic a Merry Xmas. While we had a glass or 3 of cheer I noticed a box of calenders on magnetic cards for the year just ending. I asked for a few and he gave me the box. Now whenever I buy a new push-broom it gets a bunch of magnetic cards stapled to it. I misplace very little in the way of metal bits on my floor now, or at least not for long.

 

[NazNomad]

Trade in that inferior saw its with disposable clamps and buy yourself a Delta. :-D

 

[Aggrajag]

I actually came to this topic expecting it to be about finishing and that you'd misspelled Varnished

 

[scrimper]

Murphys law

A part dropped from the workbench will roll to a degree of un-reachability proportional to its importance.

 

[JWLeaper]

Buy a new one, the lost one will then magically reappear.

 

[loftyhermes]

Trade in that inferior saw its with disposable clamps and buy yourself a Delta. :-D

What he said.
happy scrolling
Steve

 

[JimiJimi]

Found it! And yes, only after I had bought a new one.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I desperately needed a spokeshave for something some years ago, and my searching proved futile. I bought one and within a week I found ...







seven. :lol: