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   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vg5olf$3t2d5$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 10/31/2024 8:01 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vg0t6n$2rop8$1@dont-email.me...   
   > ...   
   > I thought I "needed" a vertical metal cutting saw in the shop so I   
   > bought it.  I admit I have cut metal with it.  With the right blade it   
   > is okay for aluminum, and marginally capable of mild steel cutting.  I   
   > have managed to make some cuts in alloy with it, but the torque at lower   
   > surface speeds is so low you work harden it pretty quickly with the   
   > light cuts you are forced to make and not stall the saw.   
   > ...   
      
      
   I used to run a lot of communication cable in schools, net, phone,   
   video, tv, telemetry, etc.  Often we would have the master keys working   
   at night or on the weekend.  Except for a few dedicated teachers we   
   would have the place to ourselves.  I recall in one maintenance shop   
   they had a gigantic old Rockwell (just said Rockwell I looked) vertical   
   band saw.  I couldn't help but turn it on and make a couple cuts.  Oh,   
   that was a serious machine.  Nothing stopped it.  I told the head IT guy   
   if he ever saw it at auction let me know.  It sounded like it might have   
   had a bearing going, but for a machine like that I wouldn't care about   
   fixing it.   
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
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   I take it he never called.   
      
   Segway had a good bandsaw that I used to cut up chassis castings to make   
   mutants.   
      
   I disposed of older equipment from Mitre that I would have loved to own but   
   couldn't, a 14" South Bend long bed lathe and HP spectrum and vector network   
   analyzers. It was USAF property and schools got first pick.  Now small cheap   
   SDR digital radio tuners can do the spectrum and vector analyzer functions   
   and I found a 10" SB that fits better in my small house.   
      
   My first bandsaw was a used 10" Sears whose lower bronze bearing had never   
   been oiled, so it wore egg-shaped and scored the drive shaft. A new shaft   
   was my first lathe project in night school, a simple job of threading one   
   end and cutting a keyway in the other. Then it worked well enough that I   
   converted it into a sawmill, which cut oak logs into clear lumber at the   
   numbing rate of half an hour for a 10" x 8' board.   
      
   When the neighbor parted out a damaged Kawasaki I grabbed the wheels for the   
   current sawmill, a rolling horizontal bandsaw with 24" wheels, a 16' long by   
   1-1/4" blade and the capacity to cut a beam 21" square and 20' long. The   
   hard part was lifting and moving that much wet wood, the round log weighed   
   4500 Lbs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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