Well, I've been hitting the band saw like there is no tomorrow between getting ready for China and crating the Shaper for it's trip to TX.
Here is how the saw sat after our moving party. It wasn't in too bad of shape, but needed some work.
I've stripped it totally down to the base casting and starting grinding and sanding. I've sent one piece off to Moak repair for brazing and have setup up a metal shop to make me a new lower door for the saw since it was badly bent and worn out in the middle.
I decided to go with a lighter color for this saw than the jointer. Talking with our maint. supervisor at work I found out that S&W epoxy paint is actually affordable $36/gallon. Looking through the color choices for S&W industrial paints I found two colors of blue I liked. I'm painting the main casting in the Polymer Blue and will paint the wheel covers with a much lighter blue to give it a two tone look. I also bought a gallon of safety yellow for the guards. Besides a new door I'm refabricating the blade guard on the throat side of the saw out of aluminum with a much narrower slot for safety.
For the power side of things I'm adding a drive, braking resistor, and line reactor to the saw so I can slow it down a little bit and electrically brake the saw instead of relying on the mechanical brakes. I should be able to stop the saw in less than 10 seconds with the electrical brake. The braking resistor boosts the braking torque up from 20% to 120%. The line reactor is used between the motor and drive since the motor isn't inverter duty to protect it from the high voltage buss of the drive. You should always do this when putting an inverter on a noninverter duty motor.
I'm really looking forward to getting this saw fired up. Here is how it looks with the S&W polymer blue epoxy paint.
Here is how the saw sat after our moving party. It wasn't in too bad of shape, but needed some work.
I've stripped it totally down to the base casting and starting grinding and sanding. I've sent one piece off to Moak repair for brazing and have setup up a metal shop to make me a new lower door for the saw since it was badly bent and worn out in the middle.
I decided to go with a lighter color for this saw than the jointer. Talking with our maint. supervisor at work I found out that S&W epoxy paint is actually affordable $36/gallon. Looking through the color choices for S&W industrial paints I found two colors of blue I liked. I'm painting the main casting in the Polymer Blue and will paint the wheel covers with a much lighter blue to give it a two tone look. I also bought a gallon of safety yellow for the guards. Besides a new door I'm refabricating the blade guard on the throat side of the saw out of aluminum with a much narrower slot for safety.
For the power side of things I'm adding a drive, braking resistor, and line reactor to the saw so I can slow it down a little bit and electrically brake the saw instead of relying on the mechanical brakes. I should be able to stop the saw in less than 10 seconds with the electrical brake. The braking resistor boosts the braking torque up from 20% to 120%. The line reactor is used between the motor and drive since the motor isn't inverter duty to protect it from the high voltage buss of the drive. You should always do this when putting an inverter on a noninverter duty motor.
I'm really looking forward to getting this saw fired up. Here is how it looks with the S&W polymer blue epoxy paint.
Max height for the saw is 8'4" if I ran 19.5' blades. I'm going to run 19' blades. Gee, those are going to be cheap! NOT!
