mickeyf
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"Needs fiddling"
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Cheap 4x6 bandsaw $75 lower mainland BC
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"Needs fiddling"
Downwindtracker2
Ultra Member
All 4x6s need fiddling, chuckle. Both of my $100 finds needed work . The first one gave me a few years, I'm on the second one now.
Opieshuffle
Member
I have the same saw and that's cheap! I paid more and still had to fiddle.
But it cuts like a champ now (albeit not perfectly square cuts)
But it cuts like a champ now (albeit not perfectly square cuts)
Isn't that what lathes and mills, are for?
Downwindtracker2
Ultra Member
That's the same as my early '80s BusyBee. It's a Taiwanese RongFu . Mine needed the guide "slot" to be filed to get a square cut. That took me a couple of years to find the problem. The rest of the upgrades were basic machining.
On my to do list are hydraulic downfeed, then I can do sheet metal, and a coolant flush . The last own made a table for vertical cuts.
On my to do list are hydraulic downfeed, then I can do sheet metal, and a coolant flush . The last own made a table for vertical cuts.
140mower
Don
It's time to start thinking shaper, this is a perfect use for the shaper. And don't forget to grind another shear tool, they work great on the shaper as well.......
Seriously!?! Didn’t sell at $75?Reduced to $50. Someone gonna wait until he pays you to haul it away?
Put it in a flat rate box and I’ll take it…..
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I have the same machine and it would always want to throw a blade if it stalled, mostly when I was using it to cut sheet metal standing up. I took off the drive wheel and put a 2 degree taper towards the ridge on the drive wheel and it has been fine ever since. I was really thinking of selling it but now it works so good I need and excuse to spend money on a new one.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
MrWhoopee
Super User
I cooked the motor when mine stalled. Wish it had thrown the blade.