but couldn't afford the $2000 plus for an industrial saw.
This saw was fabricated in our shop with ordinary materials.
Yup, you guessed it, the handle is a piece of broomstick!
| We desperately needed a cutoff saw
for our manufacturing operation, but couldn't afford the $2000 plus for an industrial saw. This saw was fabricated in our shop with ordinary materials. Yup, you guessed it, the handle is a piece of broomstick! |
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| Cutoff Saw Specs: |
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| Motor |
5 hp. 220 volt 3 ph. |
| Disc speed |
3600 RPM |
| Disc size |
14 or 16 inch |
| Table size |
18 X 32 inch |
| Max workpiece height |
5 inch (16" disc) |
| Max work piece length |
6 inch (16" disc) |
| It all starts
with a piece of plate and some 1 1/2" square tubing. |
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| The arbor
is machined from 1144 alloy steel. Don't forget the outboard
thread is left hand! Aluminum for the arbor is readily available in small pieces on ebay. I can also provide other sources for it. The inner cheek is a .0015 press fit, while the outer is .010 clearance. |
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| Motor and arbor
are mounted to 1/2" X 12 plate, both on slotted holes for maximun alignment. |
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| Motor base
mounted to swivel. |
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| The blade guard,
really the only pain-in-the-tushie part of the whole project. You have to
get picky here. Note that it shares the same hinge as the motor base. The KISS concept at work. |
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| Don't even
THINK about building this without a belt guard!! |
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| Yippeee! It
works! Hmpft! Was there ever any doubt?? |
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| An area of
interest. You know how messy these saws are. The long tail on the blade guard
directs about 90 percent of the dross into a box below the table. |
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