another one bit the dust

[amazingkevin]

Can you believe it that i went through another scrollsaw again ,my baby!.The 20" c-arm craftsman contractors special.No idea what the problem is but when you turn it on the speed is twice as fast as the fastest speed it has .It's like it's on 220 volt. I checked out all i could ,found 2 cold loose solder joints on the 110 input and the servo motor had been superglued on the pick up before .and a real bad job of it too. i straightend it all out ,did some quick part checks but still the same thing. so no money to play with it went in the garbage can.I bite my tongue,but we have no room to save it and i have 3 more and 2 are brand new so what the hay .Out with the old and in with the new. Now i'm on a craftsman 18" and the top blade holder is very nice to use . This is the saw that i enlarged the access hole to change the bottom blade . Good thing ,just in time too.So that worked out good.not to much vibrartion.i'm happy.New anything is allways nice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Oges]

Sorry to hear about the saw, but glad you have another saw to use.

[amazingkevin]

Thanks Brett, I got caught with my shoes off before and now i'm loaded for bear with 3 extra saws for back up. No saw sad amazingkevin! Got to scroll!Now if i could connect the exercise bike under the scroll saw i could kill two birds with one stone.

[Clayton717]

to bad about your saw, but atleast you do have a back up

[amazingkevin]

Thanks clayton, change is nice ,it's not a yellow one though.

[Oges]

These are my backup saws and I really hope it doesnt come to the day I need to use them I think I would rather use a hand fretsaw than have to use these all the time.

 

I found them on Ebay a few years back

 

The yellow and black one is a Spiralux scroll saw, it works on 'vrabrating' the blade to cut the timber rather than the up and down motion other scroll saws use. It can only cut thin timbers, think its only intended for small craft items. It is quite noisy to use so it will only ever really be a conversation piece in the shed

 

Second one I dont really know much about, to me it looks like it belongs to a bigger machine, maybe an old combination machine? I did some research on it, but never came up with much about it. It cuts ok, but again it would only really be used for cutting thin craft items on .. this one also is just a conversation piece. There is no top blade holder, the blade just slides up and down a tube and there is also a wheel guide to keep it in place. The first pic shows the saw, the second pic shows it with a variable speed drill attached (thats how you make it work) and the third shows something that was cut on the saw.

[WigWag Workshop]

Sorry to hear about your saw! To bad you had to chuck it away. Not sure if you have a Freecycle in your area, http://www.freecycle.org/ but it's a great place to get rid of stuff you don't want, and even find stuff you need. It's better than craigslist, has freecycle is heavily moderated to keep the bad folks out. Best of all it's all FREE.

 

Steven

[Oges]

Sorry to hear about your saw! To bad you had to chuck it away. Not sure if you have a Freecycle in your area, http://www.freecycle.org/ but it's a great place to get rid of stuff you don't want, and even find stuff you need. It's better than craigslist, has freecycle is heavily moderated to keep the bad folks out. Best of all it's all FREE.Steven

What a great idea

[grampa]

See if you can get one of these......Paul

[amazingkevin]

Thanks again steven and brett but i think Grampa hit the nail on the head again this time.I think when he's finished useing it i'll give it a try.But i'm sure I'm going to wear that one out too.looks very ingeniously built .Nothing ventured nothing gained.