Thread: Cold saw stand

Originally Posted by Marc

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?

My Coldsaw sits on a base with castors. From the ground to the top of the stand it comes in at 790mm.

I should clarify my coldsaw is a SOCO 370.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Jon

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.

Haven't tried building one but here's a good thread about it

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