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.




Is this the old Delta 3 wheeler? Blade size sounds about the same.
Delta (called it an 18" due to the deeper throat) set those up so that
there was a second belt supplied which fit over what was effectively the
shaft of the lower wheel for driving. Basically it was like a double
pulley but used a flat belt, Upi could use one belt to drive the normal
pulley or a second to drive on an extended shaft surface. The intent
was to slow things down enough to do *some* metal cutting also.

Koz