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'''CURRENT STATUS:''' Working - Needs to be properly fixed to the floor and levelled.
UPDATE: blade drop damper fixed.


[[File:Fullsaw.jpg|400px|thumb|right|A nice clean Donkey saw, please keep it that way.]]
[[File:Fullsaw.jpg|400px|thumb|right|A nice clean Donkey saw, please keep it that way.]]
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== Log ==
== Log ==
[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/london-hack-space/cSzrOD1RAYQ Update]: 19 Jul 2014 - Liam
The donkey saw is out of service until some TLC can be drizzled over it.
I've taken the lay shaft away for some attention and a clean up.
The lay shaft had siezed.
It needs a lock nut and a clean up.
However, the main bearings in it are pretty shot. Thats why the belts were so tight, because thats holding it together.
I will see if they are journal bearings and if something better can be gone, or it clean, fix the layshaft and put it back together.
It is a very old donkey.
Update: 20 Aug 2013 - Liam Lynch - cut and drilled new tensioner bar for the free end of the blade mounting.  Fitted new blade and tested.  Working OK.  5mm wall 50mm scaffold pole cut through in <20s!
Update: 20 Aug 2013 - Liam Lynch - cut and drilled new tensioner bar for the free end of the blade mounting.  Fitted new blade and tested.  Working OK.  5mm wall 50mm scaffold pole cut through in <20s!