What are you doing

I decided to upgrade my horizontal band saw, I've had it for about ten years after being given it by a neighbour, it was in a bad state as it had stood outside for several years so I stripped it and got it back to order, it didnt have a length stop or a table for vertical use.

The table is just a piece of scrap 6mm plate and the length stop is made from scrap, the stop is made from a piece of bar and some Aluminium strip, I didnt have any small screws to join the two parts together so I used Gorilla glue and left them clamped together for 24hrs, yesterday I held the stop in the lathe to drill a 12mm hole through the plate, I spun the lathe up to check for vibration and to test the glue and once happy I drilled the hole, very impressed with the glue.

On the long shaft that supports the stop I marked 50mm steps up to 250mm, I dropped the blade down and measured 50mm from the blade and made a shallow hacksaw mark and so on to 250mm then highlighted the marks with permanent pen, this will allow me to cut lengths without use of the tape measure.

Martin P

Have a look at this design for a saw table for these band saw that folds out of the way when using the bandsaw horizontally.

Les.

Thanks for that, I found some more aluminium yesterday in one of my sheds so may follow the design.

Martin P

There is a 4x6 bandsaw group on groups.io which in the last week got a request from a chap at Rung-fu for suggested improvements. Rather unusual and a lot of people chipped in.