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    Smile meat bandsaw or bandsaw

    hi guys
    is there many differences between a meat bandsaw than a bandsaw alot
    of the meat saws ive seen have a large cut (240mm+)i need this amount
    of cut for timber . the price seems to be less.




    thanks for all the feedback on my other question.

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    It's less acurate & now days has a stainless steel table & blade.

    I have an old Dalgety meat saw & the wheels don't have rubber tyres & there are no guides at all, just back bearings, it is rough, very rough....
    If I tighten up the blade super tight, it cuts straight for a while but because there are no rubber tyres, the set on one side of the blade bugas up real quick & it leads off in the cut after a while.

    I just bought a new Jet 18" from Gary Pye at the Brisbane Show ...
    you can see it here..... (I got a beter deal that that. )

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    Quote Originally Posted by shakzool
    hi guys
    is there many differences between a meat bandsaw than a bandsaw alot
    of the meat saws ive seen have a large cut (240mm+)i need this amount
    of cut for timber . the price seems to be less.




    thanks for all the feedback on my other question.
    Yes and no.

    They both cut wood or flesh equally as well. I have used an ex butchers saw for about 20 years.

    The differences. Meat saws generally run no tyres. Their guide set up is a lttle agricultural for timber. They cut on the other side. The smell of meat and remaoval of fat and grease is a pain but it does dissappear.

    All these things are easily fixed if you have the money.

    Tyres can be fitted by a good vulcaniser and the guides can be made. I actually find that cutting "on the wrong side" can be handy.

    I love my bandsaw for its depth of cut and throat width.

    Have fun.

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    Whaddya mean, "the wrong side" ? Do ya mean ya use the back of the blade and keep the teeth all in pristine condition. :confused: I don't get it.
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    By the time you set one up for WW it would probably cost more than the dedicated unit, but you don't get a mincer!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback
    Whaddya mean, "the wrong side" ? Do ya mean ya use the back of the blade and keep the teeth all in pristine condition. :confused: I don't get it.
    The blade faces the other way silly....

    This means you have to stand on the other side of the saw too, not just face the other way.
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    OK, but if I spin the saw arond 180 degrees, aren't I standing on the same side I always was? Does this mean the blade is still the wrong way round? If I do stand to it with my back and don't turn it around, am i doing the opposite of sawing, that is joining two bits of wood into one?



    I think wer'e onto something here Cliff, keep between just us.
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    Thus negating the 'whats the best glue' argument
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    OUTBACK!!!!


    Stop it......
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    Quote Originally Posted by outback
    OK, but if I spin the saw arond 180 degrees, aren't I standing on the same side I always was? Does this mean the blade is still the wrong way round? If I do stand to it with my back and don't turn it around, am i doing the opposite of sawing, that is joining two bits of wood into one?


    I always thought that a reverse microwave oven would be good. Then lo and behold the bottle shops got these quick chiller things. Yes. Now you blokes have invented an unsawer think of all the stuff ups I have burnt over the years, why didn't you invent this earlier, I'd be able to buy a panel saw with the money I've wasted in wrongly cut timber.
    Will it work for stuff ups on any saw or only bandsaw mistakes? :confused:
    I don't fancy standing with my back to a table saw trying to do the same, imagine getting a kickback fair in the lower back.
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