Thread: Destruction Testing of contractor saws

Bugger. Have you tried to get it brazed or welded. Apparently brazing works well on cast iron according to Keith Rucker on YouTube. He has interesting videos on restoring vintage machinery.

Thanks for the comment Pete. I haven't, a) because I'm still cursing and unloading the rest of my life (oh, how I hate moving house...), but also because b) it's so much the very heart of the mounting system that I'm not going to risk it 're-breaking' under load... And c) The saw's a generic Hafco ('SB-12') Taiwanese thing, and they. do show the mount as a part in the manual - I'll see if they can source one.
I suspect competent welding would start to cost a significant amount compared to the value of the machine, and I've been looking to upgrade - just not as a result of being forced to! Luckily the Jet planer/thicknesser and the wide belt sander and bandsaw all survived fine, courtesy of the 1 tonne hoist in the shed. But (of course), it's now hidden behind a lifetime's crap, and I thought that this could be rolled down safely... Ah well, no injury other than to my sense of ingenuity, so I can live with it...