Wadkin BRA 350 Radial Arm - Safety Help

[partsandlabour]

Hi

My new workshop has a wadkin BRA 350 radial saw saw left over from the building's former life as a coachworks in the 70's. The saw is in good order and runs very smoothly. It's got a metal roller bed and flip over finger stop on each side - it is awesome. I've got a new blade for it too.

What's the problem huh? Well, it's far from legal - front blade guard only, no spring return, no e-stop, no brake (stopping time 1 minute 47 seconds!!). I've got a lot of timber to chew next week and this saw would be great for it, but I'm pretty wary of this beast!
We had a holytech radial arm saw at work which was fully compliant with the regs and had side blade guard too, I've always been very happy using that.
Is there anything that I can do to the wadkin to make it safer for my work next week with a view to making it fully compliant later?

If I can't add some guarding I may just use my makita LS1013 chop saw.

What would you do?

Does anyone have a good source for cheap retrofit brakes for woodworking machines?

Ta

 

[Anders K]

Hello, i have fitted an electronic brake on my Wadkin AGS10. The saw is 3 phased, but i believe you can get a 1 fased brake as well. This is the brake i have:
http://m.ebay.de/itm/150618826236?cmd=VIDESC&gxo=true

 

[wallace]

Do you employ anyone or are you a one man operation. If you work by yourself you don't need a brake, I think. If the saw returns into boxed enclosure you don't need a break. One way to install a break would be to use an inverter then you could program it to stop within regs.
HTH

 

[partsandlabour]

Thanks for the replies fellas.

Anders, that brake looks like just the job. Doe's it get the machine to stop in under 10 secs? A single phase version would be good for my table saw too.

Wallace, I don't have anyone on my books as such, but I do use freelancers to help me with bigger jobs, so I'd prefer the workshop to be compliant, otherwise I'd have to do all the cutting!
Do you have a source for an inverter? I'll compare and contrast to Anders' solution.

cheers!

 

[wallace]

Is the saw 3phase, whats the hp

 

[partsandlabour]

Is the saw 3phase, whats the hp

It's three phase. I'll check the HP tomorrow. Thanks Wallace

 

[Anders K]

You can adjust the breaking current as well as the time before the breake turns off. My Wadkin comes to a complete stop in about 2 seconds.
They do make a single phase version as well, http://www.klibo.de/en/20Products/0...d versions 1Ph-230V - available in short time,
model number 0098.7060.

 

[partsandlabour]

Is the saw 3phase, whats the hp

I had a look yesterday and couldn't find the motor plate - it may have been painted over with all this horrible red paint..

 

[wallace]

I had a look on the daltons manual site and it is 4hp they also did an optional 6hp one. Something like this would work but you'd have to enquire about the 400v version
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UPDATED-NEW-V ... 1e83b06d61

 

[partsandlabour]

Thanks Wallace and Anders. I really appreciate your input.