On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:36:22 GMT, "Ray Field"
wrote:

===Have just been given a small three wheel band saw, had to make an upper
===blade guide for it. Obviously designed for hobby woodworking, blade is 56
===1/8 inch long 1/4 by 6tpi.
===Can this be converted to light metal cutting? I realise that the motor
===(direct drive ) will have to be slowed down; are there any metal cutting
===blades of this size (1/4 or 3/8 wide) available?
===Do not have blade welding equipment, how effective is silver soldering for
===joining blade ends? Is the joint a butt or scarf type?
===Ray, in sunny Victoria.
===

Its gonna have to be slowed way down to be usefull for metal
cutting....if its anything like the typical small 2 or 3 wheel BS I
have run across. Yes yu can get metal cuttingblades down as as small
as 3/16" (smallest I have ever seen or had the need to use) Silver
solder is very effective at producing a joint in putting bandsaw
blades together....I doubt most any hoome builder or wood working
store wold carry small metal cutting blades but most any industrial or
welding supply shop / store that makes BS blades from coil stock would
have them........The joint used is a scarf type joint.

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