The bandsaw is down and locked out right now. the drive belt finally gave up its life.
Tim and Freddy are working on it, but we have no real timeline for a fix yet.
The good news is the blade should hold out a bit longer.
the tool status board has been updated to reflect it is inoperable.
Great reply. It lets folks know that the delay will be for improvement, greater reliability, and correcting other issues. (thats what I read when I see the word rebuild)
We have not forgotten about the bandsaw. Some of you might already know that the pulley broke, we ordered a replacement. We did have some issues with finding the bearings. As a result we will only replacing the bearings in the motor which will be here Saturday. We do have the belts already.
Thanks! I posted something last night related to this. I used the bandsaw in the machine shop in the past to make custom sizes and cutouts of printed circuit boards. So, it will be nice to have it back.
For future reference, do you have any suggestions about another tool that could be used for this?
technically you can mount it in the vise on the Brideport mill to cut it to shape, especially simple squares.
You can just leave components on it. The mill will eat right thru them.
I will be at the space tomorrow afternoon to start working on putting the bandsaw back together if anyone cares to join me.
We will be replacing the motor bearings, all of the belts. IIRC I think we have oil to change the transmission fluid. Also the new pulley will be put on as well.
Sorry Guys, I just got called into a critical site for an emergency call. I wont be here tonight unless by some miraculous reason I am able to get that drive fixed. Sometimes it sucks being 1 of 3 that can do a job.