On 8/21/2019 2:26 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
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!Â* Blades came early.




First off. I'm just plain getting tired of trucking companies. Last
year when their was a truck and driver shortage service and attitude
seemed to devolve a little, but this year the market is reversed. There
are fewer loads for the trucks and drivers and service in many cases is
worse than last year. Don't get me wrong. I have dealt with a few
drivers who have been top notch professionals the last couple years, but
the rest seem to get worse from year to year. Drivers, dispatchers, and
companies.

So the trucking company notified the vendor of my saw they couldn't
reach me. My cell phone is always on, and if for some reason it doesn't
ring my voice mail works just fine. It took two calls to the main
company who claims its not a local terminal company who is doing final
delivery, but when they transferred me through I recognized the voice as
a pretty crummy low price local delivery dispatcher. Push comes to
shove my saw MIGHT arrive after hours today instead of yesterday. I
asked enough question though to find out there was never a chance in
hell they were going to deliver on time though.

So the saw blades arrived early and the saw is coming late.

Now to move the wood only bandsaw from the shop to the garage.