Thanks for the plug there Bob....Much appreciated.
I do the drill press vise thing myself, and have on two occasions got
sidetracked and cut one vise in half and the other almost allthe way
through......At least they were el cheapo junk so not much of a loss.

One more mod I want to do to mine is to extend the hadwheel shaft for
the vise. Sometimes it can get awkward to operate with it so close to
the head.. Thig is my shop is so jam packed and full I owuld have to
add an addition on to make room for the extension.

Regards


On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:14:13 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:
There are various web sites showing modifications to the ubiquitous 4x6
HV bandsaw (Roy's is a good one). I made a few of the mods shown, but I
put a twist on a couple of them.

One site showed a drill press vise mounted on a plate, which was then
held by the saw's vise. The plate could be extended towards the blade
and this allowed cutting pieces that were too short to be held by the
saw's vise. The trouble with that, for me, was that the saw blade guide
wouldn't clear the DP vise. So I turned the vise on end and it worked
just fine:
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/bandsawvise.jpg

Another mod suggested was to replace the very light weight vise wheel
with something heavy, to get some inertia to speed up lengthy movements.
One guy cut a wheel out of plate. I went to the junk pile and found this:
http://home.comcast.net/~bobengelhardt/bandsawwheel.jpg
It's cast iron and weighs a few pounds. Give it a flick and it spins
about 4 revs. It's a collar used to hold plates on a weight lifting bar!

Bob

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