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140mower said:
Isn't machine shop Tetris a ton of fun? Having that saw in the shop should make it all worth while in the end though. ;)
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Well, between the cherry picker, pry bars, and some help here and there with my little kubota, the physical moving isn’t bad. It’s the juggling of space to free up space to shuffle things. When one realizes the same item was moved 4-5 times it starts to get old.

The ‘shop’ is 24x28 garage. When all is done, I hope to have the bridgeport mill, harig 6x12 surface grinder, the vertical bandsaw, the hydmech, both welders, the shaper, and the old south bend 15” lathe all in place. And still have space for the tractor, and the car too.

I have a neighbour with a skid steer coming tomorrow morning to help unload and place the saw. After that I can start finalizing the smaller stuff.
 
Progress! In the shop, off the pallet and onto the floor. A little shuffling and it’ll be into place soon!

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And it’s in place. 1600 pounds of saw.

It’s amazing what some pry bars, ratchet straps, and taking some weight at one end with a cherry picker can do.

I do see another section of built in work bench getting some modifications in the near future though.


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Susquatch said:
I gotta ask... Whatcha gunna cut with that? Guessing it's not 1" bar...
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Well, it eats through 1x4” mild steel.

I was tired of trying to cut stuff that wouldn’t fit into my little 4x6 saw. This may be a little overkill, however, I have access to 8-10” diameter roundstock, and use lots of material in that size for fixtures for the field machining that I do.

The 1x4” flatstock is for some parts I make on a regular basis, I’ll bundle those and cut 4 at a time now, effectively cutting a 4x4 of steel.

It’ll just make my life a lot easier.
 
I've used various metal band saws over the last 40 years in different shops and mills. . The soluble oil, which the Brits call milk ,chuckle, is used both as a lube and flush. You want to flush the swarf out of the tooth gullets . As a lube it's in pretty weak concentration , compared to what your lathe or mill takes. Of course the guides need to be well adjusted. But the hydraulic down feed is what makes these saws. Too fast and the blade wanders to the far corner of your shop, too slow and all you do is dull teeth.

I'm envious , I have 4x6 which still uses spring tension , a 6x6 power hacksaw which uses gravity feed and a portable chop saw.
 
So I wrestled a piece of roughly 8 1/4” mystery alloy (suspect 4140 or similar ‘tough’ steel into the saw tonight. With a light feed, it still cut through it in 18 minutes. Considering I have almost 20’ of this stuff and uses for steel this size, and the saw doesn’t struggle with it at all, I’m happy. Just need to figure a better method for loading this big stuff into the saw…..

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Make #4-40 nuts?

I make a lot of fixtures and such for the field machining that I do for work. It just so happens that most of them are about this size. Until now, We’ve been getting them cut from plate, but now this is an option between the saw and free material. (Yes, I get these ‘pins’ for free, they are scrap parts from work.)

The first couple slices will get holes bored out to 2 1/4”, then sliced in half. Some other little tweaks, and they’ll become jigs for setting up the line boring bars on shovel side frames.
 
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