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Wray always finds great deals. You just have to know what to look for and where to look. Recently for one of our builds Wray decided to purchase another horizontal bandsaw from a facebook ad. The machine was pretty beat up, so with the help of Mark we restored the bandsaw to it's original glory.
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hi it's ray from pro shaper workshop
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in charlton massachusetts and today i
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wanted to show you
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this is a johnson horizontal bandsaw
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and as you probably know we're doing the
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english wheel build
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and frank my volunteer has been doing
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that and in the process of doing it we
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have
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another saw exactly like this so it's a
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little bit different
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but it's basically a johnson this is a
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three-quarter inch blade machine our
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other one's a one
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inch blade machine and we found out that
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that works really good for cutting that
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four
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four inch square tubing in the english
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wheel uh
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that we're making and uh some of the
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all the cuts are either 90 or 45 degree
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so we had to keep changing the the angle
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of the vise
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and this saw is the size of saw you
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actually need in order to cut four inch
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square tubing
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a smaller saw just won't do it because
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when you do the
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angle and you're going to do the 45 you
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have to have a much larger saw
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so a lot of times people will overlook a
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sar of this size
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but it really expands your capability
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when you buy them
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and this is an expensive saw when it was
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sold new probably in the 60s and 70s
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they've gone through a lot of them i've
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gone through a real hard life
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out in industry out there and of course
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a lot of the horizontal saws today are
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automatic ones and you program them and
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all that
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and they're really expensive so i'm
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always looking on craigslist or facebook
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marketplace
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and i bought the other saw pretty
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reasonable and
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when i buy a tool like that i generally
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don't like to just start using i like to
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go through it so my cameraman and my
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computer guy
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mark he likes restoring this stuff so i
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i put him on the task of restoring he
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restored the other one
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and this one we've actually done a
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little more extensive job on it it's a
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beautiful piece of equipment it's
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cast iron legs a tripod system and they
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don't come
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normally with the casters but whoever
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had the saw put nice
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cast iron cassettes on it we throw a
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little oil on them and they roll
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beautifully
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um the chip tray was bent up someone had
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mocked and
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make up a new chip tray it was coated
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with oil and grease and
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you know 40 years worth of debris
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everywhere so
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mark cleaned it all up with lacquer
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thinner and we've got the
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rust-oleum hammered finished on it now
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the pulleys were
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really tight i said oh boy looks like
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we're going to need
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bearings for that but we took them apart
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and they have
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tapered timken bearings in them and all
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they were was just starving and
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uh for new grease and they were all
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dried up
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so the bearings were fine after all that
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use
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they do have bearings in the in the
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guides for the
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blade right now that those are off and
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those were broke broken the guides
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themselves they
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they hang down and and they catch the
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blade about right here
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both of those have been braced and they
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might need a little touch up here and
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there but no big deal
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my other saw has a braised guide blade
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guy too
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and it didn't affect it so apparently
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when people abused them somehow they
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broke those blade guides so don't be
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afraid of that
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the bearings were readily available i
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found a place online
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in ohio when i bought the the bearings
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for the blade guides
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and it had been retrofitted with a 110
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motor so
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a lot of these came through with a
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three-phase motor so the motor
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the motor on is a 110 retrofit motor
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and it's probably within the last 10
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years or so it's a pretty decent motor
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i'm probably going to change the belt
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the sheet metal pieces here steel
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they're pretty beat up so
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on the other side i had mach make some
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nice aluminum and so you get a really
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nice contrast that black and aluminum
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painted the handle up nice it's just
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beautifully designed saw
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just typical of american quality of that
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type of that year and most of these saws
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now are all fabricated steel
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and what they did with them it just
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boggles my mind but there's
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grooves here for some reason there was
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sliding stuff through it or something it
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wore grooves in here it's not going to
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affect the performance of the saw at all
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but you know a couple days work and
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you got to get nasty and dirty to get it
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all cleaned up
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and it's almost all done we're waiting
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for those
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uh blade barons and
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probably next day so mach will finish up
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making
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the the chip pan the new chip pan and
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these covers
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and we'll be ready to put this in the
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service with our tent is to set this one
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at 90 degrees
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and our other one at 45 so
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you won't have to keep changing it so i
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just thought
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everybody might be interested in taking
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a look at
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um the real bargains that are out there
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on some of this older machinery that you
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can buy and
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make brand new again with a little bit
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of labor and
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not too much money so it's ray chaleen
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from proshape a workshop thank you
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