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Scheppach Bandsaw Portable

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24 January 2022 at 10:27 #582071
Adrian R2
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Curious, so what in the model eng. world costs £20 per cm and do I have any in my oddments bin?
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24 January 2022 at 10:32 #582072
Gary Wooding
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With my 4×6 bandsaw I, and many others I would think, have discovered that the movable vice jaw tends to rotate when trying to hold short length workpieces. This method completely solves this problem, and requires no changes to any part of the bandsaw at all. It's just a metal plate the same size as the fixed vice jaw, about 6mm thick. I used some aluminium sheet. A hole is drilled and tapped near one end to accept a suitable length of threaded rod that is used as a jack. I used M10. That's it.

The plate is positioned against the moveable jaw and, with the workpiece clamped tightly near the pivot point of the moveable jaw, the jack can be adjusted to meet the other jaw. The vice is released to allow the workpiece to be positioned properly and then clamped firmly. The jack stops the movable jaw from rotating.

If another plate is made but without the threaded hole, the two plates can be used together to hold short items very close to the saw blade.

A third plate of appropriate thickness can be used to lift odd shaped workpieces to allow the saw to cut right through.

The diagram illustrates all three uses. Works for me.
24 January 2022 at 11:05 #582077
Andrew Steward
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Posted by Adrian R2 on 24/01/2022 10:27:06:

Curious, so what in the model eng. world costs £20 per cm and do I have any in my oddments bin?

Damasteel, timascus and some plastics that I am making myself (Im a polymer chemist) due to their unusual properties. Yes you can buy cheaper timascus and damascus but they are not suitable for purpose.
24 January 2022 at 11:08 #582078
Andrew Steward
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Posted by Gary Wooding on 24/01/2022 10:32:30:

Thanks for a wonderful diagram, I have ordered parts and will be putting this together when they arrive!
24 January 2022 at 11:10 #582079
Gerhard Novak
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I am pretty sure some of us went into Google to find out what is Timascus. Well, minimum I did. Interesting material…
24 January 2022 at 11:22 #582082
Adrian R2
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Indeed, and no I don't have any
24 January 2022 at 11:42 #582087
Andrew Steward
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A lot of the cheap stuff comes from india and rusts, whilst visually the same, its not chemically the same!
24 January 2022 at 15:00 #582117
John Hinkley
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Another alternative for getting the last little bit off the end of a bar is to use a small vice in the bandsaw one. I happened to have an old drilling vice hanging around the workshop and converted it as seen in my album Small drilling vice conversion. The end result is this:

You really need to see the other two pictures in the album to get the full explanation rather than clutter this thread with them. A vice of greater precision will give better outcomes, but this one serves my purpose well enough.

John

P.S. It just occurred to me that, if the stock is round and you have a square Stevenson's ER block, clamp the stock in that and you will probably be able to squeeze even more out of it.
30 January 2022 at 21:19 #583192
Keith Matheson
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I have read this thread with much interest as I have exactly the same machine. It has been a revelation to have it in the workshop and I have been very happy with it. (And only about125 quid IIRC). It’s clear the clamping system has been made down to a price though! On one occasion I pushed my luck with what it could do and of course it let go and bent the blade. Arghhh. I decided to do something about it. I am now quite surprised that instead of just taking advice and guidance from the large font of knowledge on this forum and now I am actually sharing something I have done! My solution was to buy a cheap 4 inch vice from machine mark and hack it into shape. A few slabs of steel and hay presto a decent clamp. I did a few Harold Hall inspired tweaks to the vice to make for a bit better fit and smoother movement. Future mods may include making a new set of jaws which are higher. To be honest I didn’t think it all through as I haven’t checked I can still rotate the blade by 45 degrees. I’m hoping it will,all work out in the end. Hope this is of some use to someone on what is (apart from the clamp) a great value addition to a workshop.
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