*Perfect band saw for the hobby enthusiast **MyBest.Tools** Easy to set up and square. Had it running in 10 to 15 minutes. Quality of cuts will depend on the quality of the blades.*
I use these at work all the time and they're both very good drills. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxW1vOBRCMrgTCDEijzpVzDWsgI-Jm2iQv I've been watching Amazon and stores waiting for them to dip a little lower in price and when they did it was a no brainer.The 1.5 amp 20 volt batteries are a real step up if you were using 18 volt previously. They should handle all your day to day needs. But if you do need more power know that not only do the 3, 4, and 5 amps last longer but they give you a noticeable boost in whatever you're doing. For home use however, you'd be hard pressed to find anymore need for power than this.These guns are also fairly durable as I know they've been dropped more than their fair share... that is if an accident happens. Dewalt also offers iirc a 1 year warranty if it does break as well, though I've never went through the process.
Gotta love Momma's classic first aid for treating boo-boo's. No expiration date. Gave me a ear to ear smile over my Saturday morning coffee!! Best of Luck, Stay Healthy.........
As you know it needs a primary filter. And a magnetic secondary filter. I used a old oil pan and a gas tank pump with a old 12 volt computer power supply. Has never failed. Cost almost zero.
Reminds me of th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pierre%27s+garage video when he said, I don't use CAD I use PAD and did his drawings on A made of paper PAD. John, Australia. Edit: This is not the Video, just a link to his channel if any person is interested.
Great idea and it should extend the life of your saw blades greatly. I liked the last few seconds of your video when you said "anybody could do it as long as you have some basic hand tools and The Drive". You certainly have The Drive as evident by your shop renovation project, the many improvements you've made to your equipment, and your never ending strive for excellence in everything you do. Thank you for giving all of us something to look forward to on Saturday mornings.
Hah, Steve and Brian Block both have extra helpings of The Drive. They wouldn't even need the hand tools, just two rocks and a sharp stick. Couple months later the job would be done, and they'd have made a set of tools along the way.
Indeed but my concern is the electrics which are not designed for splashing with water might object. Possibly more of a problem in the 240 volt world than you low voltage people.😉
@@TomokosEnterprize oh lord, you mean she is a home grown loony. Edit, that probably won't make any sense as it was a reply to a different post about an even pottier politician than they have in Washington.😢 note to self get better teading glasses.
A good example of using what you have to solve a problem. I have to say that the sound of so much water running into buckets caused me to step out for a moment.. You have a very caring wife, mine would have laughed and gone to check the life insurance documents. Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire UK.
Yes and I for one am going to do something very similar as I have a brand new complete coolant pump system which was intended for my lathe by previous owner and I don't want flood coolant on it as it's too messy in a very small shed, so I will be using on the 4x6" exact same, but different branded saw here in the UK
Happy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth and Gritts! I have one of those saws! Looks like mine will have to have a coolant system too. Great basic concepts and techniques, Cardboard Aided Design is something I learned on Utube too. Great Saturday mornin, thanks for sharing your efforts, God Bless.
You will want to put a back flow preventer (check valve) on the coolant line to keep the coolant readily available. We put them on our misters. I hate waiting for the coolant.
Hi Steve and Elizabeth ☺ nice mod on the little bandsaw, good job you saved that metal shelf, just goes to show all the junk we accumulate comes in handy eventually, lol. Looking forward to seeing it up and running, thanks for the video, stay safe guys, best wishe's to all, Stuart uk.
What a great idea. There must be thousands and thousands of these saws out there. Mine is machine green and came from Princess Auto. Canadas Harbor Freight. Although mine has 4 independent legs and after a week they had to be reinforced. It is a great little saw I made a vertical table for it that greatly improved it's uses. I picked up a bunch of off cuts of 16 gage sheet metal from our local land fill transfer station that now has a purpose. Thanks a bunch for bringing this to us on another fine Saturday morning relax time with you. Take care eh.
Hi Steve, After you run it you might find that you can trim that tray so you don't have to extend or modify the handle. It might require blade wipers to prevent coolant from getting that far out. Good fab job! Or should I say "Fabulous!"
Hi Steve Your imagination on everything you do astounds me. I sure don't have the creativity you do. I was wondering if you might share your basic setup on your Harbor Freight saw sometime. What you did to make it cut straight?
I have a modification that I made to my vise on the moveable jaw . I added two things. Instead the lock nut I put on an adjustable hand lever to hold the jaw down. Second I drilled and tapped a 1/4 -20 hole on the left side of the jaw and added a long thumb screw to balance out the jaw when your cutting short work. Both work great and I wish I had done it long before I did. Your job looks pretty good so far.
cant wait for part 2! was crossing my fingers you were going to plug in the pump just so we could see the flow rate but good things come to those who wait, cheers!!
will be interesting on how it works…i did a video on my larger saw and control of coolant…suggest a small weir in your pan to stop chips entering the drain hole
Great video. You never cease to amaze me. I have the same saw from Grizzly since 1990 and always wanted to do the same thing. Now you have motivated me to do it . I really enjoyed this video as you said many of small home shops have these saws. I also have the Evolution 15" dry saw and plasma torch and oxy/acetylene torch but I still use this saw a good bit. Thanks for sharing. Dan
Very clever! I wore out two of that exact same saw in my shop so I upgraded to the 7 x 12 hydraulic lever saw from Harbour Freight. It came with the coolant system. I didn’t know that I needed this feature until I got the saw. Your TIG welding skills are phenomenal.
Great job, thanks. Hey Steve, if you need a little pump like that and you have a local HVAC supply house near by, you can probably pick up a condensation pump, off the shelf.
@@paulcopeland9035 yeah, wish I could, I'm on disability, raising a child alone with no support and just enough money to live barely so can't really save to get anything .right now, was a machinist for years many years ago. maybe after he's grown n gets a job. Not everyone can just do something about it. Especially ppl on s.s and disability with everything costing more and more.
@@Jason710. ...Yes sir, life can be a beating some times. Sounds like you are doing a fine job with what you have. Keep positive my friend! Have a good day sir!!
I have one of those saws only in green. Like your mods may have to make one like that. I have found that the hardware supplied will not stay tight. That makes the legs wobbly. Thank for sharing!
Drill two holes beside your mounting bolts on the tank and weld two guide pins on the tank make for easy alignment on the tank when putting in your thumb bolts
Great job but you will eventually need a larger drain port as it will clog at a bad time. Like what you think you need x3. Or at least a baffle to keep the aluminum from going into the coolant drain. Or a ss brillo pad over the hole, cheap simple easy.
Great cardboard cad work. 😎 Keep that template and I'll make fab drawings for you. Many HF owners will want your plans. Steve and Elizabeth, what a great team!
Can't wait to see the final result. I have the same saw with a tray on the floor and hate it! I used a recycled gallon plastic milk jug with the top cut off sitting on a shelf right where your tank sits and a little smaller Little Giant pump.
Great job Steve. Well thought out. Once painted to match saw, it will look like it was there from day one. Hope your knee feels better. I'm sure it does.
Funny, mine is exactly like that but painted olive green and says "Delta" on it. So much for buying a name brand! Mine must have come out of the same factory as Steve's. Great project! I can't wait to get started on mine.
Good morning Steve! Watching you lift the saw on to the legs, the "Good Idea Fairy" visited me. Build the tank as part of leg extensions (remember I'm 6' 3" and getting old so I can't been over as well as I use to.)
Funny, I've been using one of these since the mid-eighties, long considered this whole notion, and in particular, the portability being the primary consideration. Incredibly, I've got the exact same pencil sharpener, sitting on my bench as well. Thanks for a good plan, and well thought out design, very well considered.
I havent had a boo boo kiss in 55 years-lol Love watching a nice fabrication job come to fruition, more satisfying than buying new when it all comes together as planned. Nice job.
I have had mine for over 20 YEARS...with my home made cooing system...I like your approach! Very well done. I made a nice 12 x 12 inch table to use it to hand cut 1/8" thick AL as well....LOL....I just sit on the back-end and have learned how to stop it with my leg! EDIT ADDITION....it WAS flimsy as all get out...Mine did not come with shelf....only when I added one out of necessity was it ridged....
You are a much braver man than me welding that pan to the saw. Every time I weld something to something else by the time the welds cool I figure a better way of doing it. Then I spent more time cutting the welds off then I spent welding in the darned thing together in the first place. What adding the bolts to the coolant tank be easier taking it on and off? If the pump is on the bottom of the Coolant tank, will they pick up chips and junk? Maybe adding a spacer block underneath the pump.
Loved the family photo! I think you might have wanted a kick out to match the kick out on the saw casting so it didn't drip off it and miss the pan but it may work fine. Time will tell! :-)
1. Put a pallet on the electric forklift forks. 2. Put the saw on the pallet. 3. Raise the forks up to a comfortable working height. 5. Adjust up or down as required for each operation.
Great idea. If the fluid tracks along the saw blade and misses the drip tray, add some blade wipers, something like rubber or maybe a small brush the blade runs through.
Steve I was wondering if you could do a video on your new Weld pro. I just purchased one too There are no good videos out there on this particular machine how to work the settings. I think that would be a good topic.
Seeing that pencil sharpener was a nostalgia bomb. The moment I saw it I could smell it. The official pencil sharpener of every school teacher of my childhood
Love these small improvement projects! Cardboard CAD is so underappreciated. It's an absolute time saver. Only made aware of this quite recently. (Thank you, Adam Savage). 2 questions: - do the tank and pump need some sediment separator? - the valve could be closed when you switch on the power. Could that damage the pump?
The dirt will settle to the bottom of the tank, and the pump does have a cleanable screen on it as well, so no problems, just needs regular emptying of the tank. As to running into a closed valve nothing will happen to the pump, it is a centrifugal pump nor positive displacement, so all it will do is spin and generate max head pressure and no flow, but will still keep the flow around the impeller and magnetic rotor that keeps it cool and lubricated fine. The fail point on all these pumps is just that the rotor itself, or the shaft it runs on, eventually wears out, and a new pump is cheaper than the spare parts in a lot of cases. You do not even need to buy the expensive Little Giant pump, the cheap $10 garden centre pond pump, with a ceramic shaft, will last years in use, as they are often turned on, and left running for 5 years before they fail, with nothing other than the occasional clean of gunk from them. In this application the saw will fail first before the pump, as it will likely do under 100 hours in a year in use, unless it is running in a steel shop for 5 hours a day, but still there it will last years. I used to get 5 years out of them running cooling loops in production plant, as they were a lot cheaper than the manufacturer recommended thing, of run tap water through to waste drain. Paid for the work in around 3 months just from water use alone, and also allowed use of water conditioning, to keep corrosion down, as well.
Hopefully there is a filter on the drain line like on the big boy the pump was pulled it from. He's a pretty smart guy with a lot of experience. From a backseat driver... If its not easy to do maintenance, then there isn't going to be any. I'd like to see the ability to just lift up the tank and pull it out to change the filter and empty crud out of it more easily.
@@TomokosEnterprize For ferrous metals simplest is to place a strong magnet ( old one out of a microwave magnetron) under the plate, it will catch most of the metal filings as the magnetic field extends through the thin steel sheet.
I have the same saw that my BIL gave me with a duff motor. Unfortunately he trashed the stand years before he gave it to me, so I have it sitting on an old generic power tool stand. I have a pre made tray out of a dog kennel that I have thought of doing this with. I may just have to give it a try if I ever get the spare time.
Mine is another similar saw, but bought from a local version of HF before HF came to Denver. But, when I have ever tried any lubrication of a blade while cutting (cutting oil, Anchor Lube, WD-40 for Aluminum, etc.) the blade pops off the drive wheel, and I have to clean the blade and wheel before I put it back together to keep it in operation. Because I don't actually use the saw that often, try to match tooth count to material thickness, and buy quality blades from a local pro tool & machinery supplier my blades last for years.
Hey Steve, I have one of these saws, probably 50 year old, very useful, but it does need a coolant system. I have been using a cheap 5lt (1.3 US gallon) pump up garden sprayer with a hose connected to the nozzle, works well until the hose pops off & sprays you with coolant. As a result I was thinking the other day doing something similar, will be watching next week to see how it all goes. Cheers Peter from Oz
*Perfect band saw for the hobby enthusiast **MyBest.Tools** Easy to set up and square. Had it running in 10 to 15 minutes. Quality of cuts will depend on the quality of the blades.*
I use these at work all the time and they're both very good drills. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxW1vOBRCMrgTCDEijzpVzDWsgI-Jm2iQv I've been watching Amazon and stores waiting for them to dip a little lower in price and when they did it was a no brainer.The 1.5 amp 20 volt batteries are a real step up if you were using 18 volt previously. They should handle all your day to day needs. But if you do need more power know that not only do the 3, 4, and 5 amps last longer but they give you a noticeable boost in whatever you're doing. For home use however, you'd be hard pressed to find anymore need for power than this.These guns are also fairly durable as I know they've been dropped more than their fair share... that is if an accident happens. Dewalt also offers iirc a 1 year warranty if it does break as well, though I've never went through the process.
Gotta love Momma's classic first aid for treating boo-boo's. No expiration date. Gave me a ear to ear smile over my Saturday morning coffee!! Best of Luck, Stay Healthy.........
Steve you are one lucky man... My wife would not been seen dead in my shop... Top Job Sir top job... Cheers John..
As you know it needs a primary filter. And a magnetic secondary filter.
I used a old oil pan and a gas tank pump with a old 12 volt computer power supply. Has never failed. Cost almost zero.
Love the ‘CAD’ design system! 😆 Another fascinating build, beautifully executed. Thanks for my Saturday morning chill-time. 👍
Reminds me of th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=pierre%27s+garage video when he said, I don't use CAD I use PAD and did his drawings on A made of paper PAD. John, Australia.
Edit: This is not the Video, just a link to his channel if any person is interested.
Mr. Pete uses CAD all the time.
Not only are you a good modder...and a welder. But daggumit you make a pretty good bell too!
Keep em coming!!!!
Steve, you know why,I like your videos,you deliver results,!
Like the accent you have when you say coolant....cooowwlent...keep up great work. Love this upgrade.
Great idea and it should extend the life of your saw blades greatly. I liked the last few seconds of your video when you said "anybody could do it as long as you have some basic hand tools and The Drive". You certainly have The Drive as evident by your shop renovation project, the many improvements you've made to your equipment, and your never ending strive for excellence in everything you do. Thank you for giving all of us something to look forward to on Saturday mornings.
Nicely said !
Hah, Steve and Brian Block both have extra helpings of The Drive. They wouldn't even need the hand tools, just two rocks and a sharp stick. Couple months later the job would be done, and they'd have made a set of tools along the way.
Excellent design and execution Steve. The manufacturer should incorporate this into their standard machine and pay you a royalty.
Indeed but my concern is the electrics which are not designed for splashing with water might object. Possibly more of a problem in the 240 volt world than you low voltage people.😉
@@chrisstephens6673 England ?
@@TomokosEnterprize oh lord, you mean she is a home grown loony.
Edit, that probably won't make any sense as it was a reply to a different post about an even pottier politician than they have in Washington.😢 note to self get better teading glasses.
@@chrisstephens6673 YUP ! LOL.
@@chrisstephens6673 ...125 volts will kill you just as dead, just as fast!
A good example of using what you have to solve a problem. I have to say that the sound of so much water running into buckets caused me to step out for a moment.. You have a very caring wife, mine would have laughed and gone to check the life insurance documents. Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire UK.
Agree on the saw base actually being ridgid enough. It's first impression is flimsy but when assembled it does it's job.
Ha Steve
Drop a magnet 🧲 in the tray to catch the greater amount of chip.
As it will make clean up that much easier.
Great job. 👍
Keep them coming.
Literally thinking about just this today. Thanks Steve you have just created my lockdown 2.0 project. Cheers from New Zealand.
Hope all is well. Concerned for the folks affected by flooding on the East coast. Hope your creek is behaving itself.
Very neat! I wouldn't be surprised if your idea becomes an iconic improvement to this band saw of which there must be 10's of 1000's.
Yes and I for one am going to do something very similar as I have a brand new complete coolant pump system which was intended for my lathe by previous owner and I don't want flood coolant on it as it's too messy in a very small shed, so I will be using on the 4x6" exact same, but different branded saw here in the UK
Happy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth and Gritts! I have one of those saws! Looks like mine will have to have a coolant system too. Great basic concepts and techniques, Cardboard Aided Design is something I learned on Utube too. Great Saturday mornin, thanks for sharing your efforts, God Bless.
You will want to put a back flow preventer (check valve) on the coolant line to keep the coolant readily available. We put them on our misters. I hate waiting for the coolant.
i would like to suggest a recirculating line so as not to deadhead the coolant pump
Hi Steve and Elizabeth ☺ nice mod on the little bandsaw, good job you saved that metal shelf, just goes to show all the junk we accumulate comes in handy eventually, lol. Looking forward to seeing it up and running, thanks for the video, stay safe guys, best wishe's to all, Stuart uk.
Great video I always look forward to your work. Thanks.
Ta Steve and Elisabeth, always interesting content Cheers.
What a great idea. There must be thousands and thousands of these saws out there. Mine is machine green and came from Princess Auto. Canadas Harbor Freight. Although mine has 4 independent legs and after a week they had to be reinforced. It is a great little saw I made a vertical table for it that greatly improved it's uses. I picked up a bunch of off cuts of 16 gage sheet metal from our local land fill transfer station that now has a purpose. Thanks a bunch for bringing this to us on another fine Saturday morning relax time with you. Take care eh.
Hi Steve, After you run it you might find that you can trim that tray so you don't have to extend or modify the handle. It might require blade wipers to prevent coolant from getting that far out. Good fab job! Or should I say "Fabulous!"
Thanks for the imperial to metric conversion @ 4:41 & 13:06 :)
That is an awesome job it even looks like it could have come like that from the factory as well
Hi Steve
Your imagination on everything you do astounds me. I sure don't have the creativity you do. I was wondering if you might share your basic setup on your Harbor Freight saw sometime. What you did to make it cut straight?
great work as usual...Do not forget the saw dust that will collect and possibly clog up the system
Of course I will be here next week. My Saturday mornings are looked forward to see what you are up to.
I have a modification that I made to my vise on the moveable jaw . I added two things. Instead the lock nut I put on an adjustable hand lever to hold the jaw down. Second I drilled and tapped a 1/4 -20 hole on the left side of the jaw and added a long thumb screw to balance out the jaw when your cutting short work. Both work great and I wish I had done it long before I did.
Your job looks pretty good so far.
Looking awesome!!! Thanks for sharing Steve!!!
Nice work Steve, See you next time...
Very nicely done Steve.
cant wait for part 2! was crossing my fingers you were going to plug in the pump just so we could see the flow rate but good things come to those who wait, cheers!!
Nice project. Excellent shop tools.
Two words, work bench.... instead of floor.
Good upgrade
will be interesting on how it works…i did a video on my larger saw and control of coolant…suggest a small weir in your pan to stop chips entering the drain hole
Great video. You never cease to amaze me. I have the same saw from Grizzly since 1990 and always wanted to do the same thing. Now you have motivated me to do it . I really enjoyed this video as you said many of small home shops have these saws. I also have the Evolution 15" dry saw and plasma torch and oxy/acetylene torch but I still use this saw a good bit. Thanks for sharing. Dan
Very clever! I wore out two of that exact same saw in my shop so I upgraded to the 7 x 12 hydraulic lever saw from Harbour Freight. It came with the coolant system. I didn’t know that I needed this feature until I got the saw. Your TIG welding skills are phenomenal.
Great job, thanks.
Hey Steve, if you need a little pump like that and you have a local HVAC supply house near by, you can probably pick up a condensation pump, off the shelf.
I know I've said it before, but man I wish I had or had access to a shop like yours steve...love the work and videos, till next time....
Well, I'm sure Steve said that also, except he spent the last year building and doing something about it.
@@paulcopeland9035 yeah, wish I could, I'm on disability, raising a child alone with no support and just enough money to live barely so can't really save to get anything .right now, was a machinist for years many years ago. maybe after he's grown n gets a job. Not everyone can just do something about it. Especially ppl on s.s and disability with everything costing more and more.
@@Jason710. ...Yes sir, life can be a beating some times. Sounds like you are doing a fine job with what you have. Keep positive my friend! Have a good day sir!!
I have one of those saws only in green. Like your mods may have to make one like that. I have found that the hardware supplied will not stay tight. That makes the legs wobbly. Thank for sharing!
Drill two holes beside your mounting bolts on the tank and weld two guide pins on the tank make for easy alignment on the tank when putting in your thumb bolts
I love the videos. It would be really helpful if you had links in your description to the parts that you use. Keep 'em coming.
Thanks for sharing! I Came across a pump yesterday!
Great job but you will eventually need a larger drain port as it will clog at a bad time. Like what you think you need x3. Or at least a baffle to keep the aluminum from going into the coolant drain. Or a ss brillo pad over the hole, cheap simple easy.
Bit of steel wool from the lathe will work well there, and you get plenty of free new one as well from the stringy steel or aluminium cutting jobs.
Great cardboard cad work. 😎 Keep that template and I'll make fab drawings for you. Many HF owners will want your plans. Steve and Elizabeth, what a great team!
You should put a weir in the corner the drain hole is , to stop chips finding their way into the reservoir or building up in the drain tubing.
Very Cool! :-) I'm planning quite a few improvements to my saw and I will definitely have to include flood coolant.
Thanks, for your work but especially for better than average welding photography.
Cardboard Aided Design, its a classic!
Can't wait to see the final result. I have the same saw with a tray on the floor and hate it! I used a recycled gallon plastic milk jug with the top cut off sitting on a shelf right where your tank sits and a little smaller Little Giant pump.
Sean Signer.....So what you are saying is that you aren't worth a shit at designing and fabrication.
Great job Steve. Well thought out. Once painted to match saw, it will look like it was there from day one. Hope your knee feels better. I'm sure it does.
It,s to see back good job back
Great idea Steve, this should be fitted as standard by the manufacturers.
Yes, I agree, Steve figured this out, for the manufacturers to add as an optional coolant system. Steve is an asset, to any shop.....🍁
@@leiferickson9666 From the manufacturer this is a loss, they do not get to sell you as many blades, as they last longer.
@@SeanBZA Ha, right, should have known better, more $ rules the world!!......🍁
Funny, mine is exactly like that but painted olive green and says "Delta" on it. So much for buying a name brand! Mine must have come out of the same factory as Steve's. Great project! I can't wait to get started on mine.
Good morning Steve! Watching you lift the saw on to the legs, the "Good Idea Fairy" visited me. Build the tank as part of leg extensions (remember I'm 6' 3" and getting old so I can't been over as well as I use to.)
Funny, I've been using one of these since the mid-eighties, long considered this whole notion, and in particular, the portability being the primary consideration. Incredibly, I've got the exact same pencil sharpener, sitting on my bench as well. Thanks for a good plan, and well thought out design, very well considered.
Good morning, Steve. Thank you.
same cad system I have. I think I would put a shelf in the tank for the pump to sit on so the chips that get in the tank have a place to settle out.
Good to see you get to have some fun in the shop. Neat little project
Very cool add on.
Nice up grade Steve. I hate to beat a dead horse but, are we ever going to see the blue DoAll horizontal band saw you were restoring.
@1:55 Thought you were taking over from This Old Tony for a minute there....
Take a speaker magnetic ! Cut it to fit around the tub in the pan. Work
I havent had a boo boo kiss in 55 years-lol Love watching a nice fabrication job come to fruition, more satisfying than buying new when it all comes together as planned. Nice job.
I have had mine for over 20 YEARS...with my home made cooing system...I like your approach! Very well done. I made a nice 12 x 12 inch table to use it to hand cut 1/8" thick AL as well....LOL....I just sit on the back-end and have learned how to stop it with my leg! EDIT ADDITION....it WAS flimsy as all get out...Mine did not come with shelf....only when I added one out of necessity was it ridged....
You are a much braver man than me welding that pan to the saw. Every time I weld something to something else by the time the welds cool I figure a better way of doing it. Then I spent more time cutting the welds off then I spent welding in the darned thing together in the first place. What adding the bolts to the coolant tank be easier taking it on and off? If the pump is on the bottom of the Coolant tank, will they pick up chips and junk? Maybe adding a spacer block underneath the pump.
I agree, keep it removeable for cleaning.
This is the best video of yours I have seen. The editing and content is great!
Nice! I was just modding out my HF saw myself.
Awesome out of all the mod’s I’ve seen on this saw this is one of the best!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Good job. Looks factory 👍
Loved the bit of comedy you put in there...
:-D
Great addition to the saw!
:-D
I just replaced the base with a 2 draw filing Cabinet with wheels. Easy to uses a large baking tray to catch coolant.
Loved the family photo! I think you might have wanted a kick out to match the kick out on the saw casting so it didn't drip off it and miss the pan but it may work fine. Time will tell! :-)
Hey Steve to sharpen the tungsten i just chuck it on the drill and turn it slowly at the desired angle against the grinding wheel. Works a treat
Nice job , nice shop and Mostly nice that you had medical help in shop when you had your knee boo boo !
1. Put a pallet on the electric forklift forks. 2. Put the saw on the pallet. 3. Raise the forks up to a comfortable working height. 5. Adjust up or down as required for each operation.
Great idea. If the fluid tracks along the saw blade and misses the drip tray, add some blade wipers, something like rubber or maybe a small brush the blade runs through.
Only one suggestion, put a piece of UHDP under the pump to get it off the bottom of the tank.
Great design!
Hey Steve good idea . I might try it on mine later this year when i take it out of the box , Thanks for the videos.
Steve I was wondering if you could do a video on your new Weld pro. I just purchased one too
There are no good videos out there on this particular machine how to work the settings.
I think that would be a good topic.
Seeing that pencil sharpener was a nostalgia bomb. The moment I saw it I could smell it. The official pencil sharpener of every school teacher of my childhood
Love your professional master class on CAD design. I am surprised you had time to finish the job with the huge investment of time!
Love these small improvement projects!
Cardboard CAD is so underappreciated. It's an absolute time saver. Only made aware of this quite recently. (Thank you, Adam Savage).
2 questions:
- do the tank and pump need some sediment separator?
- the valve could be closed when you switch on the power. Could that damage the pump?
The dirt will settle to the bottom of the tank, and the pump does have a cleanable screen on it as well, so no problems, just needs regular emptying of the tank. As to running into a closed valve nothing will happen to the pump, it is a centrifugal pump nor positive displacement, so all it will do is spin and generate max head pressure and no flow, but will still keep the flow around the impeller and magnetic rotor that keeps it cool and lubricated fine. The fail point on all these pumps is just that the rotor itself, or the shaft it runs on, eventually wears out, and a new pump is cheaper than the spare parts in a lot of cases.
You do not even need to buy the expensive Little Giant pump, the cheap $10 garden centre pond pump, with a ceramic shaft, will last years in use, as they are often turned on, and left running for 5 years before they fail, with nothing other than the occasional clean of gunk from them. In this application the saw will fail first before the pump, as it will likely do under 100 hours in a year in use, unless it is running in a steel shop for 5 hours a day, but still there it will last years. I used to get 5 years out of them running cooling loops in production plant, as they were a lot cheaper than the manufacturer recommended thing, of run tap water through to waste drain. Paid for the work in around 3 months just from water use alone, and also allowed use of water conditioning, to keep corrosion down, as well.
@@SeanBZA I have used a pond/fountain pump for mine for awhile, no issues, and less than half the price.
Hopefully there is a filter on the drain line like on the big boy the pump was pulled it from. He's a pretty smart guy with a lot of experience.
From a backseat driver... If its not easy to do maintenance, then there isn't going to be any. I'd like to see the ability to just lift up the tank and pull it out to change the filter and empty crud out of it more easily.
@@SeanBZA Most of the cuttings will stay on the tray as well.
@@TomokosEnterprize For ferrous metals simplest is to place a strong magnet ( old one out of a microwave magnetron) under the plate, it will catch most of the metal filings as the magnetic field extends through the thin steel sheet.
I have the same saw that my BIL gave me with a duff motor. Unfortunately he trashed the stand years before he gave it to me, so I have it sitting on an old generic power tool stand. I have a pre made tray out of a dog kennel that I have thought of doing this with. I may just have to give it a try if I ever get the spare time.
Looking forward to seeing this finished. I'd like to do the same thing to mine.
Great idea, will do one myself.
Super cool - using tools to make other tools better. Can’t wait for part 2. 👍😎👍
very timely as I was looking to do something similar with the same saw I have.
Mine is another similar saw, but bought from a local version of HF before HF came to Denver. But, when I have ever tried any lubrication of a blade while cutting (cutting oil, Anchor Lube, WD-40 for Aluminum, etc.) the blade pops off the drive wheel, and I have to clean the blade and wheel before I put it back together to keep it in operation. Because I don't actually use the saw that often, try to match tooth count to material thickness, and buy quality blades from a local pro tool & machinery supplier my blades last for years.
I'm waiting for part #2 to see how you filter the metal filings to keep them out of the pump.
Thank you for sharing. Great idea. Watched it and very much enjoyed it.
Hey Steve, I have one of these saws, probably 50 year old, very useful, but it does need a coolant system. I have been using a cheap 5lt (1.3 US gallon) pump up garden sprayer with a hose connected to the nozzle, works well until the hose pops off & sprays you with coolant. As a result I was thinking the other day doing something similar, will be watching next week to see how it all goes. Cheers Peter from Oz
You also need that funny little rotating brush to remove the chips, like Abom's old band saw has. :-)
Nice work sir!
Pretty cool project!!!
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