Thread: help. broke my saw

It doesn’t look like iron to me and the die marks and lack of fillets suggest it’s not.
A magnet will tell you.
H.

Tis' indeed cheesium and it's so thin no wonder it broke. The OP just dropped it off at my place and I will be making him a replacement out of steel plate.

BobL is a very generous fella. been and had a chat.
He is going to make up a replacement.

Originally Posted by BobL

Tis' indeed cheesium and it's so thin no wonder it broke. The OP just dropped it off at my place and I will be making him a replacement out of steel plate.

Nice!

Chinesium is the worst. Any of the villages weekly roundup/collection of old pots, pans, knives, forks, left over ww2 tanks... anything goes into that furnace. Out comes the worst, most grainy, fluffy collection of snotty slag ever and that is then turned into any old cast rubbish.

Its a damned shame.

Whats worse, they can make some of the very best stuff I've ever seen. Their custom electronics for Arduino and Raspberry are beyond belief... as are the custom demascus billets for knife making. Simply incredible.

Cheesium wP not Chinesium! Otherwise known as spelter. There's nothing magnetic about it (no iron), zinc based alloys are used for all sorts of parts and it's not necessarily an indication of poor quality. Many people mistake it for aluminium. Zinc is actually more expensive than aluminium at the moment, but prices vary over time. It does have some manufacturing advantages over aluminium.

Ain't nuch such thing as cheesium. Sounds entirely made up ��

Ta Daaaah!
Bob has done a ripper job. thanks very much you are a legend.
hums like a new one.

new bracket.jpgnew bracket fitted.jpg

Originally Posted by woodPixel

Ain't nuch such thing as cheesium. Sounds entirely made up ��

Only some one who lives in Canberra would make such an outrageous claim.



Cheers

Graeme

Originally Posted by forunna

Ta Daaaah!
Bob has done a ripper job. ........ like a new one.

new bracket.jpg new bracket fitted.jpg

Really? Should be better than new. Bob doesn't have any cheesium!

FWIW here's a bit about how it was done.

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The first things was to lay the old broken part on top of some 6 mm mild steel plate and mark out the basic pattern and holes.
The old part was also used to mark out a reinforcing piece from 10 mm MS plate across the large (16 mm) holes, and the two side arms.

Then the pieces were cut out on a thin kerf cutting wheel mini table saw.
The pieces were then all welded together and sanded smooth with a flap and belt sander.
Alignment of the 6 mm holes in the two side arms was ensure by tack welding the arms with the hinge rod in place.
Finally M6 holes were drilled and tapped for the 3 locking screws at the locations marked by the blue arrows

So well done.

That is way better than the original. It's also a great example of the helpful spirit of this forum.
Well done Bob.
Regards
John