Restoring An Old Bandsaw Part Two 

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I was just thinking “ooh, that’s very black, it needs a pop of colour” and then the bright orange tyres go on! Looking good 😄

Good job Matt looking forward to see it in action . One point those cap's at the grease points were used before we had grease guns you full the caps with grease and give them half a turn each time you use the saw

Hi Matt I'm fascinated at how you remembered where all the nuts and bolts went putting it back together. Great job

It's good to see old machines put back in working order it will probably last for another 100 years before it needs attention I was a bit disappointed with your restoration yo didn't fill it with bondo and flat it with 2000 grit wet &dry you haven't been watching RU-vid to see how its done.... and you didn't have a cat (ginger) helping you.... apart from that a good without frills restoration ..waiting now for part 3

Great saw and great restoration! I hate to be the Safety Police...but...next time, if you must work indoors a really old machine, disassemble the machine and use a degreaser to clean all surfaces and parts, make sure your work area is well ventilated, then apply a brush-on paint stripper to remove all of the paint instead of using power tools. Wash everything down and spray on an etching primer to prevent flash rusting before you paint. You just saved a lot of time and most importantly, you prevented lead paint dust from getting all over you and into every corner of your shop! Keep up the good work mate!

If you need a blade mat try north shields grinding give them size of blade and will make any size and type 👍

Hi Matt, great work on the bandsaw, I thought spraying would have been the way to go, but I was not the one doing the work, looking forward to watching the first ' test drive', take care and keeep safe mate, best regards from Australia.

Much more enjoyable watching someone else strip all that old paint off than actually doing it! Looking forward to seeing it in action, bet it will be a joy to use.

Nice job matt its taken me three attempts to watch this fully. As call outs with work. Finally got to see it all. Looks great mate and the orange sets it off really well

Excellent job, looking forward to seeing it in action. Definitely looks like a seal.

you can have any colour, provided it's black...which looks great!

Hideous looking saw. Sandblasting it would have been the way to go... and the color? Definitely not black.

Definitely looks like a seal to me. I rescued a Grey Seal pup many moons ago in the West of Ireland washed ashore in a storm. Whilst waiting the 3 days for the Northern Ireland seal rescue to come and collect the little chap, he lived in my bath. Later they sent me photos after he had been successfully returned to the sea. So yes, got a good idea what a young seal looks like!

Do you regret using a angle grinder vs a chemical paint stripper?

It was made by Alfred Peace of Bingley

Beauty, now I'm no expert, it looks to me this thing is Victorian maybe, maybe 100 yo, it seems to me that Hammerite Black is as close to the original color as Japaning covered everything in that era, I could be way off, but job well done IMO

That is some job, looks great. Fair play to you.

Hi Matt. Glad you went for the original colour. Loved watching your hard work paying off. Those tyres look awesome. Enjoyed watching. Tony

Looks a beast! Great work - and you'll have a wonderful bit of kit soon!

I think you need bigger washers

It always amazes me how beautiful our older tooling is. So well engineered. It looks great Matt. Do you have a motor for the machine. I might have one for you. Think it’s a 1hp induction motor. Let me know. Ta Great video

This was so mesmerizing that when you nearly dropped the nut at 07:10 ... I actually flinched to catch it.

Bloody good job there, Matt. 👍🏽 Had to chuckle when the dolly rolled out the door...😆 It took me ages and a lot of sweat to clean up my table saw cast iron top, when I finally got it in good shape I gave it a coat of wipe on water based Polly. No worries of rusting and will last about 12 months before needing a re-do.

Thank s Matt very good video I think this will be great machine when you are finished thanks for sharing and stay safe 👍👍😷

It is just a piece of art !!!!! When you painted black i didnt like it , i said the old colour was nicer but you made the difference when orange was added . Cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoying watching the progress with this project. Looking forward to next episode.

Looks like a huge job Matt. Should be worth it when it’s up and running.

muito legal, paraben!!!

A You see a seal, I see a pigeon 🤣

Wow great job, I must get off my backside and do mine. Great inspiration Matt !!

That looks great Matt! Did you have any spare bits left over after reassembly? If I tried that sort of restoration job, I'd cock it right up!

Great job, nice piece of kit - but make sure you have a DiResta proof lock on the shed door. He'd have that off you in no-time!

I have the same band saw in my workshop bought for 29£ in 1988 you notice that the fence is on your right side not like modern band saws why they changed it over is a mystery all woodworking machines the fence is on the right

Liked watching this very much. Well done for all all the hard work and how it paid off.

Looking great Matt. He'll of a thing. Good work. Pretty exciting prospect for some decent slabbing!! Hope you got a beefy motor lined up for it!👌

Hi Matt, I know you have a compressor so it would not take much time to make a sand blasting cabinet and the actual bits you will need to buy are not many. It would be a good build idea and also the finish you get with a sand blaster is much better than that wire wheel and all the nasty stuff is contained inside the cabinet so you don’t need any PPE apart from the rubber gantlets

Looks great Matt. I wasn’t sure about the black but it looks good all put together. 👍🏻

So far so good 👍 😊

Those tyres look amazing, love the colour

MAKE IT GREEN AGAIN

How sad that the thought of something so Magnificent being manufactured today, in the pathetic remnants of Great Britain, is a total impossibility. We live in degraded times.

Nice job. Looking forward to seeing it being use.

It’s coming along nicely Matt,

It's looking good. I agree about the seal.

Nope that’s a Seal for sure. Good start to the project.

Very interesting. Men in sheds doing good things.

Looks stunning Matt. Great job and it's going to be a beast when running by the looks.

The black and orange is a nice colour combination.

Hi Matt, I have got one exactly the same as this awaiting restoration in my workshop and it has the makers name and where it was made on it, I will have a look tomorrow and let you know.

You need to name her Matt, how about Celia?

Matt, what are you going to use that monster for?

Excellent. I used to go to the science museum in Birmingham when I was a kid, full of machines looking like this. Looking forward to seeing it cutting stuff. Thanks for posting. Ps the tyres looks really good.

Matt it looks dope! You've done a really amazing job. You were looking a bit Fred Dibnah putting that top wheel height adjuster back on. Not a bad thing! 👍🏻

Love the orange 👍

Turned out great! Sometimes I wonder why people like John Heisz and Matthias Wandel build their own tools, then I watch things like this and realise it's probably a lot easier building them from scratch than restoring them! Meanwhile, I find walking down to Aldi and getting a tool is too much effort!

Needs a badger workshop sticker or badge or something now that it's all fixed up!

I nearly cried when you painted it black but the orange tyres cheered me up no end and yes definitely has a seal look to it. Looking forward to the guides going on. Thanks for the vid, really enjoying this series already.

Excellent job matt I cant wait to see this beast up and running. Thought you would of used paint stripper to save good few hours.

Good job Matt. Now it's almost up and running and it looks fantastic ☺️

personally i liked the green. the black looks blotchy but maybe thats cuz its a gloss. you used what you had so i get that though. great job getting it back together. i really like projects like this

Your keeping track of what part went where is impressive. I would have had parts left over and me banging my head on the wall. She is going to be a beauty when done.

Nice j0b Matt I could watch these kind of videos for hours I love restorations of old tools. Well done fella 👍🏻

Great job!!! 👏👏👏

Lovely job, that’s looking great.

Very nice job.

Cracking job Matt, it's looking fantastic.

I'm so jealous, that old table saw and now the band saw, what your secret, you must be a man in the know

Very cool! I don't know much about these things, so this is a genuine question and not a criticism, but is it worth testing something like this for lead? Not sure if the mask would mitigate that risk!

A seal? Preposterous. It looks like a canary!

beautiful!

Ça fait une jolie machine maintenant,il n'y a plus qu'à s'en servir à bientôt salut Jeannot 😉🛠

its coming along great Matt if it was mine i think i would have painted it bright red haha have you sourced a motor yet and will it be 240v or 3phase can i ask how much the saw cost if its not to impolite no worries if you want to keep it private thanks from snowy Sunderland

Great vid. Would it be possible to let me know where you got the new rubbers for the wheels from? Cheers colin

The orange on black looks so good! Great progress

Who was that use a planer in the back ground