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Posted by Leon Fisk on April 12, 2008, 3:36 pm
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:59:34 -0700 (PDT), Dave99
>It seems I'm often stuck looking for unique tools, for situations I
>come across in my business. Long story short, I've been trying to find
>a way to have a quiet and very portable, small metal band saw, that
>can also hold up to some pretty long running periods. Basically the
>size of the average portable band saw is fine. But I'm wondering if it
>would be possible to modify one and have it powered by a quiet AC
>induction motor. I've seen people modify portable band-saws into stand-
>up models, but I've never seen anybody change the motor. I've searched
>all over and apparently nobody makes such a thing. JET has some that
>are very close, but they still use the typical noisy portable motor.
>Just wondering if anybody has ideas for doing this.
This one from Penn Tools looks better than some:
http://www.penntoolco.com/catalog/products/products.cfm?categoryID=4766
Seeing it has variable speed though I would strongly suspect
it has a universal motor with brushes...
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Posted by Dave99 on April 13, 2008, 5:00 pm
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The Penn Tools one looks pretty good. It looks similar to the smaller
JET ones. I ordered a fairly cheap portable that comes with a chop
stand, plus I'll try the speed control idea. At any rate, I know it
will be more quiet than a chop saw for sure. I still think I might try
adapting an induction motor to one at some point, but I didn't want to
deal with it now. Kama makes one that does both vertical and
horizontal, which is cool. But still the AC/DC motor though. Thanks
for the ideas.
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Posted by Ronald Thompson on April 13, 2008, 5:09 pm
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> The Penn Tools one looks pretty good. It looks similar to the smaller
> JET ones. I ordered a fairly cheap portable that comes with a chop
> stand, plus I'll try the speed control idea. At any rate, I know it
> will be more quiet than a chop saw for sure. I still think I might try
> adapting an induction motor to one at some point, but I didn't want to
> deal with it now. Kama makes one that does both vertical and
> horizontal, which is cool. But still the AC/DC motor though. Thanks
> for the ideas.
I guess there is a reason you are shunning the HF H/V band saw, but it
seems to fit your criteria. It's on a stand, is fairly quiet, and turns
itself off after the cut, to boot.
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Posted by Dave99 on April 13, 2008, 8:32 pm
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> Dave99 wrote:
> > The Penn Tools one looks pretty good. It looks similar to the smaller
> > JET ones. I ordered a fairly cheap portable that comes with a chop
> > stand, plus I'll try the speed control idea. At any rate, I know it
> > will be more quiet than a chop saw for sure. I still think I might try
> > adapting an induction motor to one at some point, but I didn't want to
> > deal with it now. Kama makes one that does both vertical and
> > horizontal, which is cool. But still the AC/DC motor though. Thanks
> > for the ideas.
>
> I guess there is a reason you are shunning the HF H/V band saw, but it
> seems to fit your criteria. It's on a stand, is fairly quiet, and turns
> itself off after the cut, to boot.
Thanks Ron... I actually did consider the horizontal. You're right, it
does meet the quiet criteria. But it's not very portable. Plus, it's
kind of overkill for most of the material we cut. Most of it is pretty
light gauge stuff.
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Posted by Dave99 on April 17, 2008, 11:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Well, the portable band saw/speed control idea didn't work too well.
The saw itself was almost as noisy as a chop saw and on top of that,
didn't cut straight worth a darn. The speed control works with other
motors, but for some reason it didn't work well with the saw. It had
to be turned almost all the way up, otherwise it would just stall and
hum. Back to the drawing board.
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>come across in my business. Long story short, I've been trying to find
>a way to have a quiet and very portable, small metal band saw, that
>can also hold up to some pretty long running periods. Basically the
>size of the average portable band saw is fine. But I'm wondering if it
>would be possible to modify one and have it powered by a quiet AC
>induction motor. I've seen people modify portable band-saws into stand-
>up models, but I've never seen anybody change the motor. I've searched
>all over and apparently nobody makes such a thing. JET has some that
>are very close, but they still use the typical noisy portable motor.
>Just wondering if anybody has ideas for doing this.