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Thread: Cold saw stand
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25th August 2014, 09:19 PM #1
Cold saw stand
I want to build a permanent stand for my cold saw that so far has been living on a table.
The question is what height should I build it?
Is there some sort of standard I should look for? I suppose that the height to look for is the height of the vise and therefore the height the material and the rollers will sit at.
Any ideas?“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason
than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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26th August 2014, 09:56 PM #3
To my mind it depends on a number of factors, the ones I have worked with on factory supplied bases or stands have been too low, but I am 6'2". Same units seemed to be about right for guys 5'4"- 5'6".
Factors to consider;
Range of heights that stock will be stored at to minimise lifting and lowering as much as possible.
Your height.
Handle position with typical material in the vice somewhere near shoulder height at end of cut, much more comfortable for user as pulling down to cut rather than pushing down, and avoids need to reverse grip partway through the cut when transitioning from pull down to push down.
We had 6m long infeed and outfeed rollers from H&F (2 x 3m at each end) with adjustable legs, from memory they offered choice of long and short legs with about 200-250mm adjustment range, so it wasn't hard to set the roller sets to match vice height.I used to be an engineer, I'm not an engineer any more, but on the really good days I can remember when I was.
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4th September 2014, 07:56 AM #4
Haven't tried building one but here's a good thread about it
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4th September 2014, 08:38 AM #5
Marc,
My thoughts on it would be to make it with a lockable castor base which would match the height of your benches.
In & outfeeds from and to a bench eliminates extra stands and you have more space as a result. As big as our sheds can are, they get smaller rather quickly.
The other advantage is cleaning up swarf is made much easier if the machine can be simply wheeled away.
I have done this with a friction saw and it works well allowing the cut spray to be directed to areas where it will do the least damage.
I take it that the cold saw is the lighter type along the lines of a Evolution, Makita or Milwaulkeee which will permit this. The top heavy weight of the cast iron types such as Waldown ,Thomas and others, may not permit this.
Grahame
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