Deep-Cut Portaband? (Corded)

[TheOldHokie]

Obviously. The question is how long will that $100 blade last slabbing that bar?

A cheap M42 bandsaw blade is about $35 and will wet saw 3.5" rounds till the cows come home. I have been doing it for years.

Imachinist: 133" Long, 1" Wide

This blade is 133" Long, 1" Wide

www.amazon.com

Dan

 

[chim]

Retirement has been nice, but one of the things I miss about working where I did was the access to any tool and lots of scrap material. This is the shop where i built the cab for my L3200 back in 2012. The variety of tools available for cutting included the Hydmech (below) , handheld band saws, a small Milwaukee battery cold cut saw and grinders with death wheels. In the wings but unused for that build were the OA torch, plasma cutter and recip saws.

Here's a picture of the Hydmech. It was old (probably out of production) but worked like a charm. We had a few other horizontal band saws and a couple verticals, but they were all kinda puny compared with this one. I think the smaller horizontals were something like 9x16, while the Hydmech was more like 16x19. A lot of the steel pipe and shapes we sliced up had to be loaded by one of the 5T overhead cranes.

 

[TheOldHokie]

Retirement has been nice, but one of the things I miss about working where I did was the access to any tool and lots of scrap material. This is the shop where i built the cab for my L3200 back in 2012. The variety of tools available for cutting included the Hydmech (below) , handheld band saws, a small Milwaukee battery cold cut saw and grinders with death wheels. In the wings but unused for that build were the OA torch, plasma cutter and recip saws.

Here's a picture of the Hydmech. It was old (probably out of production) but worked like a charm. We had a few other horizontal band saws and a couple verticals, but they were all kinda puny compared with this one. I think the smaller horizontals were something like 9x16, while the Hydmech was more like 16x19. A lot of the steel pipe and shapes we sliced up had to be loaded by one of the 5T overhead cranes.

Now thats a bandsaw!!

I don't know about that older one but the new ones have automatic feed. Set the part length and count, hit start, and it spits out cuts without any operator intervention.

Dan

 

[chim]

Ours was a manually operated one. The speed at which the blade dropped was adjusted via a hydraulic needle valve.

 

[TheOldHokie]

Ours was a manually operated one. The speed at which the blade dropped was adjusted via a hydraulic needle valve.

Same as my old Johnson (easy boys) but a lot nicer feed table

Dan

 

[Sidekick]

So we have gone from $350 bandsaw to $350 cold cut saws both portable and easy to fit in a small shop to $10k plus bandsaws the size of a VW bug. We are starting to sound like tractor salesmen people . Love spending other people's money.