The price was right..... free I'm essentially finished with it. I do need 1 washer for the allen head bolt that holds the stationary jaw & a screw for the cover plate on the switch, but that's it.... I've also left off the lube pot & associated gubbins for the time being. Once the blades arrive (ordered them yesterday) I'll use it to cut the steel for the dolly it's going to be mounted to... at which time I'm guessing there will be a couple more pics.. I'm also going to paint the *Sawmaster*logo red... or possibly Kawasaki green This was it a week ago in the scrap pile...:
i had one a little bigger than that i junked not too long ago. Only the jaw that holds the blade was broken, not just the blade. Looks fun!
My grandpa built one like that back in the 30's. I used it for awhile and just retired it. Needed too much work to get it back inline again. No bushings and it wore so it cut on an angle. Now it's just sitting in the woodshed. Maybe I should apply for a patent for it if I can prove he made it first! (He only has about 10 patents to his name)
I bought on just like it a couple of month ago. After shimming the bar, and setting every thing up with a degree gauge from the wood shop, It cuts almost perfect 45degree angles in 1-1/2 x 3 14ga tubing. Next project is a dolly to mount the saw on. It is threaded on the base for an 19/32" bolt. I now use my chop saw only to rough cut pieces. I also found an owners manual online. great save jim h
Wow, looking at that thing closely, I think I have one of the original ones of that. Mine even has a 2 button light switch on it, but no name to be found at all. Same type of gearing and same arm and blades. I'll post some pics of mine tomorrow.
That's cool. Can you leave them unattended like a horizontal band saw? What's that behind it, a connecting rod assembly for a radial engine? http://dayton.craigslist.org/tls/1692593946.html
Yup, just fire it up & walk away until it turns itself off. Rod assembley is Wright 1820 as used on B17/T28/Albatross etc. I'll get it cleaned up & hang it up someplace. 'kin heavy tho...
I want to say that when I was a kid, we could buy casting kits from the back's of Pop Mech and a couple of the other mag's of the times for DIY's for cheap to make a power hacksaw like that. Not as big tho.... But of course, I didn't have 2 nickels to spend on doing so. Great save. I love tools and wished I could have saved what I started to make as my Blacksmith Shop before I started driving. Dad died and Mom sold the farm in '66, and my stuff just kinda got gone... It's a DAM shame that HFT doesn't sell this kinda stuff for a GOOD value like we could get way back then!!!!!!!!!!!! pdq67
Okay, here are pics of the one that I have. Lots of things the same, but mine looks or is homemade. My grandpa built alot of his own tools. I have a drill press with a WWII black a decker 3/4" drill mounted to it, a grinder that weighs about 300# and has a 1hp brush motor on it.
DIY plans::: http://www.vintageprojects.com/machine-shop/power-hacksaw-plans.html http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeHomeWorkshopPlans.html Made from washing machine parts: >>> http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeHomeWorkshopPlans/PowerHacksaw.pdf Uses connecting rods: >>> http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeHomeWorkshopPlans/PowerHackSawPS.pdf
Just looked at that CVL link. It shows the original "Sawmaster" logo was red. I took a diegrinder with a 3M roloc disc on it & knocked the paint off mine so now the letters are bare metal..... at least for the time being.
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