01-02-2014, 12:28 PM
Hi,
I awoke this morning with one thing on my mind; bandsaw; fed up of moaning about he weather I was determined to get into the garage this morning even if it snowed or the end of the world was nigh. I was in the garage for 8:30 and although amazingly the sun was shining the cold breeze coming up the valley bit into my face but nothing was going to stop me today.
At last the bandsaw is now fully assembled; it's not quite finished because mid week I emailed a company requesting price of four bands but haven't yet received a reply so yesterday I emailed another company and again to date haven't received a reply? I'm unable to complete this restoration without a band because I need the band in order to set up and adjust everything. In the bright light I found I had missed applying a top coat of paint to the front just under the table; not a big problem because I'll soon correct this.
I used lots of lubricant during assembly so now everything moves freely as it should. The new drive shaft bearings will give years of service because these are now upgraded to bigger bearings. The new main drive shaft is a perfect fit and I'm very pleased with how the key-way turned out; the key-way cutting jig I copied from a video on YouTube works brilliantly and is a credit to the creator.
During use this saw threw sawdust everywhere so I plan to weld up a new angle iron base incorporating the motor mounting; this will lift the saw allowing dust extraction to be installed.
This Wilmac restoration doesn't give me much satisfaction considering just how difficult it has been to bring about. I've achieved what I set out to do in fully restoring it but I'm disappointed the castings proved so rough and this has impounded on the paint job; it's going to be a working saw but I don't like the way this has turned out knowing I could have done better but it would have taken considerably longer and the saw simply isn't worth it. Yes it is vastly better than it was when I bought it and the new paint job looks nice but I've struggled against the weather all during this restoration but isn't it always so for me living here on the valley side. I've suffered during this restoration; frozen and blown around during hours of blasting the paint off and endless running to and from the garage in never ending downpours; now its finished the sun is shining and I'm not at all surprised.
I'll keep this saw because it has a good cutting capacity on a small foot print and given my current bandsaw needs it will suit my fine.
All in all a good morning and in spite of the cold breeze I've also washed the car so it can now rain or snow whenever it wants; I've got another more interesting project lined up and won't let the weather upset this one; it's the newly acquired Lorch engineering lathe; I might have previously mentioned I like lathes?
Thank you everyone for showing interest in this restoration and for your replies and welcome input. I'm happy today for a change.
Kind regards, Col.
I awoke this morning with one thing on my mind; bandsaw; fed up of moaning about he weather I was determined to get into the garage this morning even if it snowed or the end of the world was nigh. I was in the garage for 8:30 and although amazingly the sun was shining the cold breeze coming up the valley bit into my face but nothing was going to stop me today.
At last the bandsaw is now fully assembled; it's not quite finished because mid week I emailed a company requesting price of four bands but haven't yet received a reply so yesterday I emailed another company and again to date haven't received a reply? I'm unable to complete this restoration without a band because I need the band in order to set up and adjust everything. In the bright light I found I had missed applying a top coat of paint to the front just under the table; not a big problem because I'll soon correct this.
I used lots of lubricant during assembly so now everything moves freely as it should. The new drive shaft bearings will give years of service because these are now upgraded to bigger bearings. The new main drive shaft is a perfect fit and I'm very pleased with how the key-way turned out; the key-way cutting jig I copied from a video on YouTube works brilliantly and is a credit to the creator.
During use this saw threw sawdust everywhere so I plan to weld up a new angle iron base incorporating the motor mounting; this will lift the saw allowing dust extraction to be installed.
This Wilmac restoration doesn't give me much satisfaction considering just how difficult it has been to bring about. I've achieved what I set out to do in fully restoring it but I'm disappointed the castings proved so rough and this has impounded on the paint job; it's going to be a working saw but I don't like the way this has turned out knowing I could have done better but it would have taken considerably longer and the saw simply isn't worth it. Yes it is vastly better than it was when I bought it and the new paint job looks nice but I've struggled against the weather all during this restoration but isn't it always so for me living here on the valley side. I've suffered during this restoration; frozen and blown around during hours of blasting the paint off and endless running to and from the garage in never ending downpours; now its finished the sun is shining and I'm not at all surprised.
I'll keep this saw because it has a good cutting capacity on a small foot print and given my current bandsaw needs it will suit my fine.
All in all a good morning and in spite of the cold breeze I've also washed the car so it can now rain or snow whenever it wants; I've got another more interesting project lined up and won't let the weather upset this one; it's the newly acquired Lorch engineering lathe; I might have previously mentioned I like lathes?
Thank you everyone for showing interest in this restoration and for your replies and welcome input. I'm happy today for a change.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
