I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them

(10) 3/4" 14T.. 14' 6" (176")

(4) 5/8" 14T..14' 6" (176")

(8) 1" 11T..12' 1" (145")

(1) 1 1/4" 4T..14' 6" (176")

(2) 1/2" 14T 9' 10" (Starett)

Make me an offer for any you are interested in, plus shipping from
93268 or 91763

If no interest..Ill take em to Reliable Tools and see if I can swap em
for the 5/8" 93" blades I need.

Gunner


The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,

On 15 May 2006 05:48:29 GMT, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:

According to Gunner :
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them

[ ... ]

(4) 5/8" 14T..14' 6" (176")

[ ... ]

If no interest..Ill take em to Reliable Tools and see if I can swap em
for the 5/8" 93" blades I need.

Hmm ... those 5/8" ones (item #4) are long enough to be cut down
and re-welded to make four single blade ones, and two more with parts of
two blades each -- assuming that your bandsaw has a functional welder.

Enjoy,
DoN.

Ayup..I might do this. I can tig em back together or take em to a shop
and have em done with a blade welder. Ive 3 blade welders..and none of
them work right. Or Im not bright enough to adjust the guts to work
right. Ive welded blades with blade welders many times..dont know why
mine dont work properly. Shrug.

Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,

On Mon, 15 May 2006 08:01:10 GMT, Gunner wrote:

Or Im not bright enough to adjust the guts to work
right. Ive welded blades with blade welders many times..dont know why
mine dont work properly. Shrug.

Operator error .. ?
--
Cliff

"Gunner" wrote in message
...
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them


DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:


"Gunner" wrote in message
.. .
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them


DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)



Curses!!! Foiled Again!!!


Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,

On 15 May 2006 05:48:29 GMT, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:

According to Gunner :
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them

[ ... ]

(4) 5/8" 14T..14' 6" (176")

[ ... ]

If no interest..Ill take em to Reliable Tools and see if I can swap em
for the 5/8" 93" blades I need.

Hmm ... those 5/8" ones (item #4) are long enough to be cut down
and re-welded to make four single blade ones, and two more with parts of
two blades each -- assuming that your bandsaw has a functional welder.

Enjoy,
DoN.

With a simple shop-made jig they can be silverbrazed. Grind a slow
taper on each part with the jig at a wheel, overlap with the jig so
the lap is flat and the teeth are aligned, silverbraze. Might need
to pick a few teeth clear with a dremel and a cutoff wheel. Not as
fast as welding, but it definitely works.

Don Foreman wrote:


With a simple shop-made jig they can be silverbrazed. Grind a slow
taper on each part with the jig at a wheel, overlap with the jig so
the lap is flat and the teeth are aligned, silverbraze. Might need
to pick a few teeth clear with a dremel and a cutoff wheel. Not as
fast as welding, but it definitely works.

That work for bimetal blades too, not just the carbon steel ones?

GWE

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:


DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!

Those are made for use South of the equator, where the orientation would
be correct.

On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:09 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
quickly quoth:

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:
DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)

Curses!!! Foiled Again!!!

I love your special ones. They have teeth which are half on each side.

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--
"Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not misery but
the very foundation of refinement." --William Morris
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:09 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
quickly quoth:

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:
DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S
TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)

Curses!!! Foiled Again!!!

I love your special ones. They have teeth which are half on each side.

-------------------/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/\/\/|
\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\----------------------


Escher Blades!!! ...only Gunner

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but "Tom Gardner"
wrote on Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT in
rec.crafts.metalworking :

"Gunner" wrote in message
.. .
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them


DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!

I'm afraid to ask how he knows this ...

Besides, everybody knows those bands are for the left handed bandsaws.


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)


--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

I have good luck with my welder some days and other days I can't get it to
weld good, and I don't change anything.

Has anyone ever used argon while using the welder? I could just hold the mig
or tig torch up to the weld and let some gas flow.
"Gunner" wrote in message
...
On 15 May 2006 05:48:29 GMT, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote:

According to Gunner :
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them

[ ... ]

(4) 5/8" 14T..14' 6" (176")

[ ... ]

If no interest..Ill take em to Reliable Tools and see if I can swap em
for the 5/8" 93" blades I need.

Hmm ... those 5/8" ones (item #4) are long enough to be cut down
and re-welded to make four single blade ones, and two more with parts of
two blades each -- assuming that your bandsaw has a functional welder.

Enjoy,
DoN.

Ayup..I might do this. I can tig em back together or take em to a shop
and have em done with a blade welder. Ive 3 blade welders..and none of
them work right. Or Im not bright enough to adjust the guts to work
right. Ive welded blades with blade welders many times..dont know why
mine dont work properly. Shrug.

Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,

On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:35:56 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:20:09 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
quickly quoth:

On Mon, 15 May 2006 15:12:44 GMT, "Tom Gardner"
wrote:
DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S
TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)

Curses!!! Foiled Again!!!

I love your special ones. They have teeth which are half on each side.

-------------------/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/\/\/|
\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\----------------------


Escher Blades!!! ...only Gunner

No, Mobius Bandsaw Blades - they only have one side. ;-)

(And I'm not going to bother finding the o with the umlauts on top,
use your imagination...)

I liked that old display at the Los Angeles Museum of Science and
Industry - a Mobius Strip with a little motorized car with a body like
a big arrow, on a slot-car style track going around the strip to
demonstrate that it only has one side. You'd hit the button and the
little car would take a full lap around the one side of the Mobius
Strip, and stop when it got back to the beginning.

(Delay timer only allowed it to start once every 5 minutes, so it
wouldn't wear out that fast.)

-- Bruce --

--
Bruce L. Bergman, Woodland Hills (Los Angeles) CA - Desktop
Electrician for Westend Electric - CA726700
5737 Kanan Rd. #359, Agoura CA 91301 (818) 889-9545
Spamtrapped address: Remove the python and the invalid, and use a net.

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
. com...

"Gunner" wrote in message
...
I recently bought a quantity of bandsaw blades on ebay, figuring that
I could use some of them in my home shop..and all are too long.

I think..think that some/most of these are bimetal Starretts..but only
two of them still have the labels on them


DON'T BUY THEM...ALL THE TEETH ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY!!! GUNNER'S TRYING
TO PULL A FAST ONE!!!


(The trick with blade welders in in the anealing, practice, practice,
practice)
Tom,
You are right, annealing it properly is the secret. I heard once that when
steel is heated to the temperature where it becomes non-magnetic that it is
annealed. So I tried it using the magent on the back end of a scriber. I
held it near the weld as I pulsed the welder on rapidly. When the magnet
stopped pulling I stopped heating. It appeared to work quite well, as it
removes the brightness of the shop lights and the color calibration of my
eys from the equation. I hope some of you try it and let me know how it
works for you.

Gary H. Lucas

I've had some luck TIGing blades back together after they broke. I
line them up on a piece of aluminium and weld them with a bit of 0.030
Mig wire. To anneal them I use a propane torch. I heat the weld area
to till it just gets a bit red, and I let it cool slowly by
occasionally bringing the torch back to heat it up a bit. Its best to
do abunch at once so that you don't waste time getting everything set
up for one blade. I then use an angle grinder to clean it up. Ive
tried miging them as well but I find it harder to control because the
weld is so short.

stan

For some reason I can't start a new topic with my mac....

I have a DoAll ML 3 phase bandsaw which someone recently offered me 500
bucks for. So I did a little research online and found machines of
this type going for as much as 5000. Anyone know of anywhere I could
unload this behemouth for somewhere near it's actual value? It was in
working order when I acquired it for my shop in a multi tool deal from
a friend. It seems I made out better than I'd ever imagined!

I suppose I could list it on eBay and hope for the best?

Thanks, david

For some reason I can't start a new topic with my mac....

I have a DoAll ML 3 phase bandsaw which someone recently offered me 500
bucks for. So I did a little research online and found machines of
this type going for as much as 5000. Anyone know of anywhere I could
unload this behemouth for somewhere near it's actual value? It was in
working order when I acquired it for my shop in a multi tool deal from
a friend. It seems I made out better than I'd ever imagined!

I suppose I could list it on eBay and hope for the best?

Thanks, david

Yes, sell it in ebay, specify that buyer is responsible for pickup and
transportation. Understate its condition, make very good pictures.

i

On 19 May 2006 09:00:37 -0700, wrote:
For some reason I can't start a new topic with my mac....

I have a DoAll ML 3 phase bandsaw which someone recently offered me 500
bucks for. So I did a little research online and found machines of
this type going for as much as 5000. Anyone know of anywhere I could
unload this behemouth for somewhere near it's actual value? It was in
working order when I acquired it for my shop in a multi tool deal from
a friend. It seems I made out better than I'd ever imagined!

I suppose I could list it on eBay and hope for the best?

Thanks, david

In article .com,
says...
For some reason I can't start a new topic with my mac....

I have a DoAll ML 3 phase bandsaw which someone recently offered me 500
bucks for. So I did a little research online and found machines of
this type going for as much as 5000. Anyone know of anywhere I could
unload this behemouth for somewhere near it's actual value? It was in
working order when I acquired it for my shop in a multi tool deal from
a friend. It seems I made out better than I'd ever imagined!


You may see them *offered* for $5000, but I doubt many have sold at that
price. I paid $900 for my ML in good operating, but atrocious cosmetic
condition. I'd say $1000-$2000 is a fair price for an ML in good to very
good condition without any pieces missing.

Ned Simmons