On 8/18/2019 9:09 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 8/16/2019 11:10 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 8/14/2019 3:09 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: I got suckered in by some
SPAM from Grizzly and ordered a G0621X
Â* variable speed vertical wood/metal bandsaw.Â* Of course it seems to
only
Â* come with a wood blade, and I will probably only ever use it for metal
Â* cutting.Â* (I already have a decent Rigid mid/small woodcutting upright
Â* bandsaw.)
Â*
Â* I think I know why they had them on sale.Â* The title of the listing
says
Â* its 3 phase.Â* You have to read down into the description to see they
Â* sell it with a VFD control for speed control and its wires to plug
into
Â* a single phase outlet.Â* I think most small shop and home shop
people saw
Â* "3 phase" and just skipped onto the next listing.
Â*
Â* I'm getting ready to order a metal cutting blade for it.Â* I like
the way
Â* the M42 blades hold up on my 7x10 bandsaw so I figured I'd just get
Â* those for the upright.Â* The saw spec says blade width from 1/8 to 1
Â* inch, but I doubt I'll be doing any scroll cutting with it.Â* I'm kinda
Â* looking for the most useful pitch and width so to speak.Â* Is there
a big
Â* difference between a 3/4 inch wide blade and a 1 inch wide blade.Â* I
Â* suspect I'll be doing 99.9% straight cutting stuff that isn't
practical
Â* to fit in the horizontal.Â* Cost difference is only about $10-15
dollars
Â* depending on the source, but still $10 is a premium six pack of
beer or
Â* a couple shots of top grade Canadian rye for after work.
Â*
Â* Then there is pitch.Â* The blade on my 7x10 horizontal seems to do just
Â* fine for most things.Â* I use it on aluminum most of the time, but it
Â* will severe 1-5/8 4140QT round without much thought, and of course it
Â* severs easy machining stress proof almost as fast as it chops
aluminum.
Â* Looks like about 12 pitch.Â* I can't recall, but it might be variable
Â* pitch 12/14 or something like that.Â* I don't want to have a bunch of
Â* different blades hanging on the wall.Â* Just one spare that will
allow me
Â* to keep going if I break one while I order another spare.Â* It will get
Â* used most of the time to cut 6061 or 7075 aluminum from 1/2" thick
to 2
Â* inch thick.Â* It will occasionally need to cut some 4140HT or some A36
Â* from 1/4 inch to 1-1/2 inch.Â* Rarely I may need to cut some pieces of
Â* aluminum sheet in either 5052 or 3003.Â* Now I usually cut those with a
Â* circular saw on the wood deck of my equipment trailer.
Â*
Â* I'm leaning towards a 12-14TPI or 10-12TPI 3/4 inch blade since that's
Â* what I am running on the horizontal, but I'm open to changing my mind.


Well, I had hoped to reach a compromise blade to leave on "most" of
the time, but I broke down and bought two blades for the new saw.Â* A
5/8 and a 10/14.Â* I looked at buying some coil stock, but I just don't
want carbon steel blades.Â* I cut just enough medium hard steel to make
them pretty useless for me.Â* The coils of decent quality bimetal were
just a little more than I wanted to spend right now after spending all
my pocket money on the saw.




Saw arrives on the 22nd.Â* Blades on the 26th.Â* HA!


Double Ha! Blades came early.