4" x 6" Horizontal Bandsaw - Fixing the depth of cut issue

[Music] hello and welcome well last week i did a video on fine-tuning this 4x6 bandsaw and uh i thought it was going to be the only video but i think i'm going to further improve on this thing uh let me show you what i'm talking about just briefly if you missed the other video i encourage you to go back and watch it but basically uh what was covered in the other video is the ideal place to run these blade guides and that is the ideal placement for these blade guides is with the blade perfectly straight between the two wheels and then just twisted in the vertical position anyway on this saw and it may be different on different uh manufacturing dates or it may be a quality control issue but on this saw the head didn't go down far enough to cut through the stock if these were adjusted in the appropriate position so i did a couple of things and it was covered in the other video to lower this head but uh it's really not the ideal situation so i'm gonna address that right now what i'm going to do i'm going to make a quarter inch thick steel plate to put on top of this several of the viewers suggested this and i had thought of this but i didn't really want to go to the trouble of doing it it's a fair amount of work it requires a mill to cut this slot and well a lot of people don't have mills a lot of people have this saw but don't have a mill i think what i'll do is make a template when i make this plate i'll make a digital template and any of the viewers that want to make that plate or need to some of the saws may not need this plate but if you want to make a plate i'll make the template available and maybe you can have one made uh so so right there i just described the exact arc of that that's a rough that's a casting right there it's unfinished so when i set this up on the mill i'll be able to dial this in looks like four and three eighths i was kind of curious how much corrosion was under that vise when using the uh water-based coolant looks pretty good really i cut a really crude taper there on a plug i'm going to cut that off right there that'll serve as the center for my radius [Music] [Music] hmm okay i'm getting ready to cut the slot the long slot and i got a milling fixture i made a while back it's pretty useful for some things i could have swapped the jaws on my vise and clamped this pretty good uh what this is really useful is squaring the end of stock you can put it against this side edge here and mill the end of it but i measured to the edge here and here i usually run it the other way around clamp the other way around but it's easier to see what you're doing here so i'm going to mill that slot and then i'm going to i'm going to mill it all the way through with half inch and then i'm going to check it against the band saw to make sure that i'm lined up i'll probably mill it a little bit oversized the slot in the saw is three-quarter inch it might be a metric equivalent but it's real close to three-quarter so i'm going to just clear mill this all the way through and then go go wider so i'm not sure on the alignment yeah everything looks like it's lined up good looks like i just need to take just a tiny bit off of this side but that much off of this side this gap can be wider than this cap this is being supported in here by the casting so i'll have to put a spacer in there looks like a pretty good fit now i have to mill off that right there and that right there okay i got this bolt in here as a position to hold the position if you ever do something like this don't loot don't do like what i did transferring holes from a countersunk hole the transfer punch doesn't work very good the tip on the end of it elevates it to where it doesn't locate as long as i keep the punch perfectly vertically yeah hopefully that'll work locating countersink holes can be kind of tricky i'll tell you what i'll be able to see if i'm off by doing like this looks like i'm pretty close so so so oh yeah it'll work right there i got a feeling i'm gonna have to have a spacer right here and make it cut through better we'll see oh look at that i like it i think i can put a spacer right here use that screw hole there for a hold down and then drill another hole on the side right here it's always annoying when you go to adjust that stop it's full of full of metal shavings but if i put a hole right there i can use a hex head and just it'll be easier to clamp i may have to put another screw in there so [Music] i like it well it actually looks original well that about wraps up part two of three yeah i got one more little trick i'm going to show you it it's a simple simple upgrade but it really makes the saw more convenient to use anyway this plate i guess call it an elevating plate i'll draw it up and put a link down below the video if you want to make your own i don't know how many saws really need it i don't know if they're all made this way or not but you'll you'll be able to download it and print it out full size and hold it up to your side to see if it'll fit and if you don't have a mill maybe you can get somebody to make one i've also thought about uh having some made and making them available [Music] maybe get them water jet water jet cut i'm just not sure i can do that and offer them for a good price i'm hoping maybe i can do that i mean it'll help out a lot of people or possibly anyway thanks for joining me and be sure and subscribe [Music] you

Channel: Winky's Workshop

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Length: 13min 34sec (814 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 12 2021