Power hacksaw

[140mower]

Got flagged over the other day on my way home from work by a buddy who asked me to stop by in an hour.
Apparently he had been tripping over this for too long and figured that it would fit in nicely with the theme of largely pre-war machine tools.

It's pretty ugly, but was supposed to be working, I am going to try playing with it a little on my days off. Hopefully I can find a makers name on it. I don't think Morse Fairbanks is the maker, but perhaps I am wrong.
It originally came out of the old Pacific Great Eastern rail shop here in town.

 

[Ironman]

It looks like the one we had in the shop when I was in school for a couple years. A nice score, and if you dribble some paint on it it will look almost new.
That nice slot in the frame where it rides on the vertical post is a hazard. It snipped the last joint off on my friends finger. Of course he was dumb enough to grab it while it was running.

 

[jorogi]

It looks like the one we had in the shop when I was in school for a couple years. A nice score, and if you dribble some paint on it it will look almost new.
That nice slot in the frame where it rides on the vertical post is a hazard. It snipped the last joint off on my friends finger. Of course he was dumb enough to grab it while it was running.

With Don I'm sure before any paint he'll be fabricating a blade guard, a couple of wheel gaurds and a couple of belt gaurds

 

[Downwindtracker2]

It is Peerless Tool and Die from Guelph Ontario . I have one. When they run, they are a regular rodeo . They are a 6x6, gravity feed, dry.

 

[140mower]

I am so going to harass you for information once I get out of this damned chair. Lol

 

[whydontu]

I used to have one, it was fun to watch it walk all around the shop while cutting.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

There is a youtube of guy's one running . I think he's from BC, because in one of his vids, he's doing the trunions on pulp mill lime kiln . I think I might have worked on that one?

Your one is an early model. There are pictures and some write-up on Vintage Machinery . Mine has guards. One guard is so rusted it looks like expanded metal, though. Mine needs a bushing. If I even get my lathe running, that's an early job. On mine, it looks like it had an end of cut arm raise. If I ever get around to it, I'll add that and a shut off linkage. Another one of my uncompleted projects. It cuts square,6" deep, what more can you ask for ? It didn't take much to get there. The pivot is adjustable. I added .020 brass shim stock to take up slack and make for a slide.

I got mine in corral, so it can't go far.

The previous owner got a hacksaw blade from Granger. I got mine from KBC.

 

[140mower]

After some head scratching I think I have figured out the problem I was having with the automatic blade lifter...... It doesn't have one.
There seems to be a lever that you lift to hold the saw up while putting stock in the vice and if your mainshaft is too tight to the frame it grabs that lever and uses it as a blade lifter, only it chops the work rather than saws it..... I have a few bushings to make as well as well as the crank pin. Someone used a bolt, and that made a mess of everything it contacted....
The mainframe is also cracked (actually broken on one end), so that is another repair that needs doing... I'm looking forward to giving it a good workout, I don't think it is going to replace my band saw, but hopefully work along side of it...

 

[Downwindtracker2]

Fancier power hacksaws have a lift on the return stroke, it wasn't one of those, just a lift at the end of the cut. A ramp or something like that. I did see one on later machine's image. It's been awhile since I worked on it . Mine had done so much work in cutting 4" channel, there are grooves in the bed. I have one of BusyBee's first 4"x 6" bandsaws, 1982? modified somewhat. That's easier to get to.

 

[Chipper5783]

, I don't think it is going to replace my band saw, but hopefully work along side of it...

Yup, having both types of saws works well (at least it does for me). The generic 7x12 band saw does about 99% of my cutting. When I need to cut substantial stainless bars, then I roll out the Kasto hacksaw and let it chew through the stainless (got some 3tpi blades off eBay - full hards that last quite well also). Thus my bandsaw blades last a long time (couple 3+ years), and I get to cut whatever I need to.

 

[djberta]

Score, that will make a great project and useful in the end as well.