Archive:Equipment/VerticalBandsaw

There is now a vertical bandsaw in the space.

This machine is dangerous .. even more dangerous than the other machines.

It's intended for light duty work - cutting PCBs, sheet aluminium, small pieces of wood, plastics etc. It's NOT for cutting up hunks of metal for the lathe or welder or large chunks of timber.

It's also potentially a great deal more dangerous than the horizontal bandsaw due to higher speeds and the need to put your fingers close to the blade, so don't use it unless you know exactly what you're doing.

If you're just too lazy to get a handsaw and think you'll use it to save a bit of elbow grease, make sure you have more fingers than you really need as you're going to lose some.

The instructions for use will be linked from here shortly. READ THEM.

DO NOT adjust the screws on the top or side unless you understand what they do and how fussy they are on a light duty machine like this. They adjust the blade tension and tracking. It takes a long time to set them correctly and if they're mis-set the blade will wander off the pulleys and ruin the saw, your work, and you. So leave them alone and if it's not working properly, note it on the mailing list.

The saw is set up with a fairly fine blade (24 tpi) suitable for metal sheet, plastics or PCB material. The slowest cutting speed is recommended for use with this blade : do not speed it up. It will cut wood, but will be tediously slow. I do have blades suitable for cutting thicker wood but they're a lot more dangerous - I'm going to see how many fingers are lost to this one before I fit those.

--Artag 22:55, 17 February 2011 (UTC)