Bandsaw adventure and the Kapex120

**Shedhand** · 24th July 2007, 08:20 PM

There I was, quietly working away with the band saw cutting 64/ 40mm x 40mm squares of M'pinga and Celery Top for a chess board when BANG....the damn blade exploded. Someone shooda warned me. Fair had me runnin' for the damned underwear drawer.
Broke on the weld and there were fractures in about a third of the gullets.

Jumps in me snot-box (20 year old Toyota Tarago I bought for 900 bucks last week) and head off to me good mates at Specialised Joinery who make blades while you wait.

Walked in the shop door and what do you think was set up on the shop floor....

keep going...

a little further...

A Kapex 120. The only one in Tassie. I got to play with it. It was a hamburger with the lot kit. Oh what a dream machine. I am in love for the first time since the last time. Gotta have one. Just got some paid part time work at 200 bucks a day so will have enough by the time they get their allocation of 6 machines to buy one. $1565.00 plus GST. Comes with the angle guage doo-hickey and 1 clamp and top quality blade. Looked like a rebranded CMT. The hamburger with the lot kit is around $2600. You get the saw, the wobbly MF table, two long extension arm things and extra clamp. Not sure about the DC and hoses though. Prolly extra. I reckon I'll just get the basic saw.

Oh, and by the way. When I showed them the broken band saw blade the had a bit of a chuckle. Apparently its a 'hobbyist grade' blade. A bit poor considering its a Metabo. The blade they made me is thicker and 2000% better than the other one. A 'Red Band' brand I think they said. 16 bucks which I thought was cheap.

Cheers

**Pat** · 24th July 2007, 09:03 PM

Sheddie, I know all pollies are part timers, but worth that much

Your shed must be reaching saturation point, surely you could not have that much room left for the kapex. Haven't you got resonably new saw of some description?

**Shedhand** · 24th July 2007, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by Pat

Sheddie, I know all pollies are part timers, but worth that much

Your shed must be reaching saturation point, surely you could not have that much room left for the kapex. Haven't you got resonably new saw of some description?

G'day Pat. Very droll. I know when I was a pollie I worked from about 6.00AM to 11PM week days and most weekends. for 75K a year. (work out the hourly rate cobber you'd be shocked). Can never have too many tools ( I read that here somewhere I'm sure.

).
I have a near new Hitachi soft start belt drive10" SCMS which I'm going to sell so I can buy the Kapex. I'm going to put it to SWMBO (I'm still living here at the moment. I can't bring myself to give up the shed

) that I build a double carport in the front of the garage/shed that way I can have another 3m x 7.5m to work in....mwahhhhaaaaaa...BRB. Gotta take me pills...mwahhhaaaaa....

**boban** · 24th July 2007, 09:42 PM

Got a call this morning from VEK tools and I just had to go and find a reason to get out and pick up the new Kapex. Well following some conferences, it was off to VEK I go, hi ho hi ho.

Got it now but I'm too buggered to do anything with it now.

Anyone noticed that its been cold lately.

**Pat** · 24th July 2007, 09:59 PM

How easy is it to get a bite

Wouldn't the double carport be something like 6m x 7.5m, even more room to play in. Have fun with your new toy!

Yes it has been cold lately, but it is the season for cool weather, footy gurnseys & ugg boots!

**Shedhand** · 24th July 2007, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Pat

How easy is it to get a bite

Wouldn't the double carport be something like 6m x 7.5m

yep. I've already filled 6m x 7.5. There's only the wifes bit left/ 3m x 7.5. I could move my paint/chemical/polish storage and the DC over there and all the timber stash. and maybe get a long bed 6" jointer.

**Pat** · 25th July 2007, 10:11 AM

Any Wharehouses around your area?

**Shedhand** · 25th July 2007, 11:37 AM

BTW Pat, I've been wrestling with how to dress the lump of Ironwood you kindly sent me for a plane making exercise. When I got it from you I didn't have any machinery. On Monday I dug it out of my woodpile and gave it a going over with the Festool sander. started at 80grit and went all the way to 4000grit. The finish is stupendous. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of wood look so much like glass. I'm not kidding. Its so smooth and glossy from just the sanding that I wouldn't bother putting any finish on it.
Unfortunately, i don't yet have a jointer so i screwed some bits of MDF in strategic places after I cut it in half then I ripped it into 4 pieces about 80mm x 50mm x 520mm long. I'm going to put them through the thicknesser and then re-saw to 80mm x 20mm (hopefully the new bandsaw blade will cope) with the aim of making a small hall table. Yet to design it though. I decide to make the plane (a delayed WIP) from Gidgee and M'pinga.
A belated repeat thanks for the wood. Do I assume correctly that its a piece of a Cooktown Ironwood fencepost? The highly polished colour is absolutely beautiful. The grain looks almost 3D.
Cheers

**Pat** · 25th July 2007, 08:40 PM

Sheddie, it is a piece of "Pink" Ironbark, former power pole, somewhere between 20 - 50 years in service before being "broken" by SCA (Single Car Accident). So it was put up before the CCA treatment of hardwood poles began. I still have two pieces of similar quality that I am undecided in their use

I am glad it has machined well, I know that I burned out a GMC power plane

, bluntened several plane blades and swore a fair bit to split the piece of pole with wedges/sledge/spud bar. I think I have learded a lesson as I have not tried to split the larger piece of pole, that has been standing in my yard for the past two years

**Shedhand** · 25th July 2007, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by Pat

Sheddie, it is a piece of "Pink" Ironbark, former power pole, somewhere between 20 - 50 years in service before being "broken" by SCA (Single Car Accident). So it was put up before the CCA treatment of hardwood poles began. I still have two pieces of similar quality that I am undecided in their use

You said that already...

Originally Posted by Pat

I am glad it has machined well, I know that I burned out a GMC power plane

, bluntened several plane blades and swore a fair bit to split the piece of pole with wedges/sledge/spud bar. I think I have learded a lesson as I have not tried to split the larger piece of pole, that has been standing in my yard for the past two years

I'll take it off your hands mate...

**Pat** · 26th July 2007, 10:02 AM

The piece measures 1000+mm long x 300+mm diameter and is rather heavy

**Shedhand** · 26th July 2007, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by Pat

The piece measures 1000+mm long x 300+mm diameter and is rather heavy

A small outboard is in the mail...

**Pat** · 26th July 2007, 10:10 PM

I'll make sure that I aim it south then

**Chris Parks** · 16th August 2007, 01:08 AM

Pat, I'll have it if you don't want it cluttering up your backyard.

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