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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - sasquatch - 10-13-2012

The past two days i been at a deceased friends house cleaning out his shop, and buying a number of his things.
This guy, (Bless him,) was a total pack rat the past 70 years and bought everything, but would never sell anything!!
Shop FULL, (only narrow path to walk through, House FULL, two outside sheds FULL, two old pickup trucks FULL, lot of the stuff is incomplete, damaged or been out in the elements.
Also he had dismatled a lot of tools and machinery, and the wereabouts of the parts is a real HUNT!!
Much of it has been sold off, quite a treasure trail of all guys stuff, other that the antiques he had in the house , much of which belonged to his wife who passed away a few years ago.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - stevec - 10-13-2012

Where are the pics?

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 10-13-2012

Nicely done Steve. Thumbsup

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 10-13-2012

Steve,
Nicely made and nicely shown as well Smiley-signs107
You have 3 tractors? Jawdrop
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 10-13-2012

I started another project today that I have wanted to do for some time now. I’m tired of fighting with the motor mount on my 7x12 horizontal/vertical band saw. The factory mount consists of two thin pieces of stamped 14 ga. sheet metal. In order to change the belt position (speed) of the saw, you have to loosen two bolts on the underside of the top plate which are not easy to get to. The lone tension adjusting bolt is off set to one side of the mount, which cocks the motor sideways when you try to tighten the belt. The other problem is that the thin sheet metal bends and sags under the weight of the motor, which throws the pulleys out of alignment as well.

[Image: th_OldNew.jpg]

I purchased another heavy duty motor mount to replace the original one, but it is too long to fit on the saw. When lifting the saw to the vertical position the mount would hit the chip pan and prevent it from being fully raised. So I needed to shorten it up to get it to work. I scribed out a couple of cut lines to remove the center portion (2-1/4”) of the mount which should give it just enough room to clear the chip pan.

[Image: th_ThinThick.jpg]

Unfortunately, I had to take the motor off of the saw to get measurements for the new mount, and I didn’t really want to put it all back together again to cut up the new mount. So I resorted to using my plasma cutter instead. The first step was to install a high tech fence guide (wooden yard stick) to make a straight cut.

[Image: th_Torchguide.jpg] [Image: th_Plasmacut.jpg]

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Highpower - 10-13-2012

After cutting out the center section and sanding the paint from the edges it was time to weld the two halves back together again. I didn’t want to weld the base to my welding table so I clamped the halves to a piece of copper plate to keep them flat and left about a 1/16” gap between them. I tacked them in several spots before finally welding them together with the MIG. I finished it off by grinding all the welds down flush since the inner plate has to slide back and forth underneath.
[Image: th_Readytoweld.jpg] [Image: th_Weldedmount.jpg]

I also cut a piece of ¼” steel to use as a base plate to attach the new mount to. Something that won’t bend under the weight of the motor. But it looks like I will have to replace the hex head bolts with some countersunk screws, since they interfere with the movement of the adjusting plate on the new motor mount.

[Image: th_Baseplate.jpg]

Oh well. Enough for today…..

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - sasquatch - 10-13-2012

Nice work Highpower!! Good project.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - sasquatch - 10-13-2012

Steve and ED Re: Where are the pics?

That is beyond my capabilities, i would have loved to post pics of this stuff/disaster.

Just discovered that the unknown shaper there is an early 7inch Logan w/variable speed control.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 10-13-2012

Nice work (as Usual) Steve. How did you attach the clamp to the flat plate?
Oh by the way nice to see dirty machines.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 10-13-2012

(10-13-2012, 05:45 PM)sasquatch Wrote: The past two days i been at a deceased friends house cleaning out his shop, and buying a number of his things.
This guy, (Bless him,) was a total pack rat the past 70 years and bought everything, but would never sell anything!!
Shop FULL, (only narrow path to walk through, House FULL, two outside sheds FULL, two old pickup trucks FULL, lot of the stuff is incomplete, damaged or been out in the elements.
Also he had dismatled a lot of tools and machinery, and the wereabouts of the parts is a real HUNT!!
Much of it has been sold off, quite a treasure trail of all guys stuff, other that the antiques he had in the house , much of which belonged to his wife who passed away a few years ago.

I didn't really do any thing today with my toys, but this post that I quoted reminded me of a article that I read some time ago about a guy and his wife that used to collect things

here's a link to the article of the Miller's and the auction after they passed away.

http://coolcatcorp.com/millerauction/MillerAuction.html