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[kingcreaky]

Hi All

As this particular discussion thread offers me great enjoyment when im supposed to be working, I thought id share the wealth, and post some piccies of one of my projects.

After restoring numerous minis, I think im maturing a little, and am finding myself doing other things with the skills that ive learnt in my garage working on cars.

I burn a lot of wood, i have an open fire in the house, and log burners in my workshops, I also do a fair amount of wood work (wood lathe) etc. I like most have got the standard tooling, electric jigsaw, hand circular saw, chainsaw, and the old fashioned arm breaker. But after ogaling at the equiptment at my local wood yard for some years now, i decided I needed a bench rip saw in my life.

Although One of these can be achieved reasonably easily ready made off ebay, none of them seem to be exactly what I want, and they are also properly expensive, So I decided to make it myself.

So,
I got some 25mm steel bar...
got some billet ali
and some case mounted race bearings

then using my lathe, made a pulley (with a nice little locating grub screw)
turned the steel bar down to meet the pulley.
and the bar down to accept the bearings





I turned the other end of the shaft down to 24mm, then using a m24 die put a thread on.

I had to centralise and support the saw blade, and as most saw blades come with about a 30mm center diameter, i made some 'angle grinder like' centralising bolts...



I did this by welding those nuts to those plates, then turned them circular with the lathe,







so, now we need power!...

As I may be technically using this anywhere, i decided to go for petrol / diesel. So picked up a 5.5hp honda powered generator off ebay for next to nothing, removed the generator gubbins, leaving me with a nice little honda engine. so, made a pulley for it



then made a frame, with caster wheels, out of some old properly thick steal i found



mounted engine to frame (using mini exhaust mounting rubber brackets! to reduce vibration)



and ive nearly finished fitting the blade






need to make another one of those blade support beams to run the other side of the blade

a belt tensioner

a lid

a 'safety' cut off

a throttle

a 'safety' guard

and a 'fence' to allow me to cut down timbers accurately


il keep you posted...

[DAVEY_C]

nice little project mate.... will be good to see how it works out....

[Chris_R]

Looking good. One question though, why have you mounted the motor so that the pull start is in the centre and the pulley is on the outside the frame?

[kingcreaky]

yeah, its not ideal. perhaps could of thought it out a bit better, but it came down to the fact id already made the shaft 16" long, and i made the frame 30" I wanted the blade in the middle next thing I know id put the engine the wrong way round, anyway, no reason really but thats how were gonna roll..