Bandsaw mods

[seriesonewelder]

Latest little job in the garage was to make a wheeled frame for my saw having watched Pask Makes. Using some angle from work, unused castors from my roll cabs and some outdoor ply from a regular seller at the local car boot. Wished I done it years ago!

I realised that the home made roller stand might not adjust to the new saw height so I had a look online for a new one but where's the fun in buying one? I watched an 8" roller on ebay whilst mulling it over and soon received an offer which I accepted. Now I was committed to making one. Using some 40mm box/studding/nuts from work, channel that had been left on the street for scrap and some flat from home stock.

The 'old' roller saw duty on a canoe rack that I made for my Land Rover and before that the roller was used on the front of a cylinder mower.

 

[JOEPRO]

In my case I fully welded the original legs onto a 50x50 frame with large strong castor wheels scavenged from a rotted wooden moving dolley. Worked out great, very easy to move now and rock solid

 

[ostosix]

Those saws are tremendously top heavy. I have one and id be tempted to put some dragster wheelie wheels on when i go to trouble of pimping it up

 

[GRW]

Funnily enough I was looking at my Sealey version today & thinking (again) I need to make a 4-wheel castor trolley for it. Its not easy to move as standard.

 

[GRW]

Those saws are tremendously top heavy. I have one and id be tempted to put some dragster wheelie wheels on when i go to trouble of pimping it up

If you look at the stock two wheels, they are behind the legs & below the motor.
Even then, if you move the saw without the blade arm kept low - it'll try to tip backwards.
If/when I get round to it, I plan to have the rear castors as far back as possible (I.e. just long enough so they aren't further back than the motor for "parking" out of the way) - to make it as stable as possible.

 

[ostosix]

I’ve now got two of these, and the little wheel brackets on both clarke models where both fitted upside down meaning it took huge tilting before the wheels worked allowed movement.

5 mins to swap 10mm spanners.

Even then if you let the saw go to vertical too quick it’ll throw itself over, thats presumably why the covers are either bent or removed.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Used to have one of those, and although it did a fair amount of useful work, it got sold on.
Bandsaws are surprisingly subtle things, though.
Today, happily, I have a proper Startrite 18-V-10, which is a seriously capable industrial bit of kit that isn't challenged by anything that I've used it for yet.
The Startrite list of accessories makes for interesting reading (if you're interested in bandsaws, that is..... ) .

 

[Hog-Rider]

Around 6 or 7 years ago mine leaked oil from the worm drive, so I drilled the front plate, fitted a grease nipple and filled it with grease. It worked OK despite what others had told me. It has done a lot of work over those years without any problems.