Dude! You’re looking great. You look like you’ve lost 50 pounds in the past few months and your energy level and physicality seem to be increasing. Maybe it’s just the new camera guy, but you are looking super healthy. Love your videos too.
Hey Keith. Nice work as always. Just as general feedback, here are a few of the reasons I like your videos and hope you keep doing them in the same way: No gimmickry or fancy edits, no over-explaining, nice clear photography, the absolute minimum of commercial promotion (I can only recall very rare times when you happened to mention your straight-edges) and the fact that your thumbnails and video titles are always upfront and honest. Keep it up, please. Also, a big hats-off for your contributions of time, effort and expertise to the community of enthusiasts. Also, if Jimmy D changes his mind about that bandsaw, can I have it please? 🙂
'Taking little bites out of this elephant'. That's a great phrase! It just keeps getting closer to looking like a blown up version of my saw, which is one quarter the size (though it looks about 1/10th), 12-inch rather than 48. Band saws are really pretty simple in their construction, but really important for so many jobs.
I bet Jimmy is loving the first hand tour through this restoration!! Nice work as always Keith!! Thank the machinery Gods for the broken bolt being loose!!
14:00 I remember using "grade 8" bolts on my car's bell housing and having one start getting easier to turn when it should have been harder. The head had partially separated from the threaded area. Thank goodness I stopped and backed it out.
I hope the saw gets a "Vintage Machinery" decal before it's shipped out! Speaking of shipping, will it be shipped all assembled or will it need to be broken down?
Thank you for the video Keith I wish learn something on your videos. It was a pleasure meeting you at the bars this summer bash 23. I meant no disrespect when I was totally shocked at your appearance. You look fantastic. You must be doing something right
That auxiliary table looks pretty darn heavy for that little mount. Seems a light aluminum guard would be easier. I suppose it doesn't really ever see pressure. Why they make just a guard so darn hefty? They must have had better ways? then again, maybe not. Love these vids. This machine is a real beauty. So fun to watch, thanks for sharing Mr. Rucker.
One thought on the use for a double adjustment on the guide: Perhaps this feature allows for a deeper cut. I know that my Uncle Eugene, who was a pattern maker, used to use his bandsaw for cutting large patterns for bronze bushings. He would then true them up on an extra long oscillating spindle sander. Some of his pattern glue-ups were so large that he set them down over the upper wheel and cut from the inside (16" Walker Turner) His limiting feature was the hight of the guides. Anything deeper had to be turned on his 4'X16' (yes, foot) custom-built wood lathe. Just a thought.
Once the bottom wheel was mounted to this saw in a previous video I realized that the saw cannot be set directly onto a solid floor. Does Jimmy know this? A hole will need to cut into the floor to accept the bottom wheel. I think this is known as a "pit saw". Thus the reason why the bandsaw is currently setting on blocks of wood (cribbing) for the time being.
That seems like a high end machine for it's day and I would think that it would have been built with a counterweight for the blade guide. Perhaps it was mounted to the ceiling where it was installed. Another possibility is that it was used for pretty much the same thickness of wood in a production setting so it never needed to be adjusted.
Yea, I was wondering if they’d take the wheels off for shipping, it would probably be the easiest way to it. I wonder if Keith will go and help set it up, it would be a good opportunity to get some video of the saw working.
You could have Windy Hill cast a post to bolt to the gib bolts and use a window sash type weight to counterweight the height adjustment weight with a cable and pulley. Another piece of cast iron bolted on would look as original as the motor mount does.
I don't know the specification of the battery powered wrench you were using, buy my Makita impact driver is quite capable of shearing off the head of a modern M10 bolt. Particularly when it was LH thread and I tried to remove it thinking it was RH!! Oops.
Is there a guard that keeps the operator from getting his foot in the spokes of the bottom wheel?? If you mounted a battery powered winch on to your gantry Crane to replace that chain hoist, life would be a lot easier and faster. just have the controller in one hand, Easy peasy.
Just an idea - tell me please if I'm all wet. What if you replaced the bottom wheel with a trunnion and two smaller wheels? Would allow the blade to go the 4' wide, but you could bring the wheels up above floor level. Not original, but realistic given constraints. A lot of work... This is me thinking on a Saturday morning. Back to work. Oops - nevermind. Just realized - this is not for your shop. Jimmy DIresta's problem, and it may not be a problem for him.
when i was a teenager i had two friends assemble an exercise weight bench table completely and then realized it wouldnt go through the door to his trailer
@@ronalddavis I'm retired from the US Navy where I was a submariner. We once had some Marines ride us and I gave them a pre-boarding brief. One thing I emphasized was the hatches are 24 inches in diameter so don't bring anything that won't fit through a 24 inch hole. One sergeant tried to bring his guitar on board but it didn't go in the hatch. And then he had the gall to tell me I should have warned him.
interesting that the designers of this saw liked the look of two LARGE wheels, instead of two smaller wheels below the table so a LARGE wheel does not have to be set in the floor
