Ezy Cut Bandsaw in need of TLC

**DSEL74** · 13th December 2013, 06:07 PM

Moby any news on the sizes you were looking up???

Did some more work on the bandsaw today and started to reassemble a few of the parts before I loose them.

I seem to be short a few knobs

. Also the know at the top should be in the side not the front, what goes in the hole at the front????
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Took ages to sand and scrap the table this far and still away to go on it. Interesting when you spray G15 on it it turns the rust black.
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Here is the new trunion plate I made to replace the expoy filled lump of washers. Still need to drill the hole.
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Spent many hours with the angle grinder removing rust, smoothing the welds, radius-ing the corners, and smoothing the really rough plasma cut edges.
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I sprayed the covers and they were touch dry but the fell over on to some rages and that was enough to leave dents in the paint so i have to sand them back again and respray. Interesting it seems the paint forms a skin but it takes weeks to actually harden. Anyone else had this kind of issue??

**Mobyturns** · 13th December 2013, 09:43 PM

Oops, I forgot, the dog ate my homework .......

Henry Bros Carbon 3/8" 4 tpi 1970mm

Be warned it may be too long for your band saw as mine has a spacer block under the top wheel support.

**DSEL74** · 14th December 2013, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

Oops, I forgot, the dog ate my homework .......

Henry Bros Carbon 3/8" 4 tpi 1970mm

Be warned it may be too long for your band saw as mine has a spacer block under the top wheel support.

OMG the dog ate your bandsaw

Thanks.

**Mobyturns** · 14th December 2013, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by DSEL74

OMG the dog ate your bandsaw

Thanks.

That was one of the excuses we used at school .....

Hope this helps shows the riser block about 6mm thick.

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**DSEL74** · 16th December 2013, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

That was one of the excuses we used at school .....

Hope this helps shows the riser block about 6mm thick.

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I'm wondering the riser block was added unless they were trying to make the bandsaw work with an oversized blade?

**Treecycle** · 16th December 2013, 10:10 AM

If you set the blade tensioning block to approximately the centre of its travel and then run a tape measure around the same path that the blade travels, you will get the length required.

**Evanism** · 3rd February 2014, 11:28 PM

Perhaps centre the adjustment then use a piece of string pulled tight?

**Afro Boy** · 10th March 2014, 04:11 PM

Nice work restoring this one. Mine's taken me a couple years now with long breaks in-between. Saw you mulling over the length of the blade. I've just measured mine and am going with 76" or 1,930mm length.

Have had to buy a new motor, tires, and a new vee pulley belt too. Those parts all cost more than what the whole unit would be worth in the end, but it's been a fun project. We'll have to race them off each other once we've both finished out restorations!

Cheers,
Af.

**DSEL74** · 10th March 2014, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by Afro Boy

Nice work restoring this one. Mine's taken me a couple years now with long breaks in-between. Saw you mulling over the length of the blade. I've just measured mine and am going with 76" or 1,930mm length.

Have had to buy a new motor, tires, and a new vee pulley belt too. Those parts all cost more than what the whole unit would be worth in the end, but it's been a fun project. We'll have to race them off each other once we've both finished out restorations!

Cheers,
Af.

How did the tyre fitting go?? Any photos??
If i knew we were going to race I'd have painted it go fast red with Gt stripes!

**Afro Boy** · 10th March 2014, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by DSEL74

If i knew we were going to race I'd have painted it go fast red with Gt stripes!

Haha, there's still time!

I'll be putting the tires on tomorrow so will take pics and let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
Af.

**DSEL74** · 10th March 2014, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by Afro Boy

Haha, there's still time!

I'll be putting the tires on tomorrow so will take pics and let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
Af.

If they are the eurothane ones I have read they need to be soaked in Boiling water rather than just hot water to get them soft enough to stretch the full distance. Plenty of photos please.

**Afro Boy** · 29th March 2014, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by DSEL74

If they are the eurothane ones I have read they need to be soaked in Boiling water rather than just hot water to get them soft enough to stretch the full distance. Plenty of photos please.

I just did this and posted up a quick video as photographs were going to be too difficult whilst in the midst of it. Regardless of what the instructions say, you definitely need boiling water for this to work.

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