 So I have this old saw It's supposed to be a portable lumber mill like you hold it on a log and move it along the log I got it for free because I've used it a few times and I'm this morning. I was like, I'm never using this thing again It's just it's no good So I started dismantling it To just take all the pieces I started thinking I bet I could build a pretty nice Vertical bandsaw with this thing You know what else I've got Okay, right here This is just been It's one of those things that I collected and it's just been sitting here forever it's part of a Table saw that didn't have this saw or anything. It's just the table-y part I wonder if I could build it into this like it's got it's got the table top It's got a bunch of jars and crap on it But it's a pretty good size It looks like about the right size for this thing Well, since it's a pouring rain day and it's just thunder and lightning outside I'm not gonna do what I was gonna do today. So maybe this is it Okay, the first Problem I see with doing this is this Back up a little cousin out here. No, that's full team. Okay The motors at this end So this is the big heavy end and this runs off an electric chainsaw Which is funny like you're supposed to buy this thing and then attach an electric chainsaw on it to power it Now the blade goes Goes this way. So if I want to have the motor at the bottom The blades coming down here, that means this would be the cutting side But I don't want this to be the cutting side because it's the side with all the all the strength I want that to be the cutting side because I only have one piece to take off here because Around the blade, I'm gonna have to remove everything so that well, let's turn it the way it's going to be Because I just want the blade coming down where I'm gonna be cutting stuff, right? And you know, I'll have a I'll make some kind of blade Guard thing that comes down or whatever. I don't know. That's that's not important right now So basically the blades going the wrong way. I want the blade to go this way And I'm pretty sure that chainsaw does not have a reverse on it And I also don't know exactly how these wheels Keep the blade on if they could do it both directions. It probably would probably be fine You know, I'm just gonna presume Well, I'm gonna cut at this end anyway Even if I have to put the motor like even even even if I have to put the thing this way Put the motor up at the top Which would be stupid because then all the weight would be up in the air and not down and I have to put extra weight at the bottom to keep it from tipping over but Either way, this is gonna be the cutting side. So let me take off Everything around the blade down here and just see how sturdy it is with just these pieces holding it in shape and Of course, I can you know always add Stuff here. I do currently have this bandsaw So this is this is basically what I want to make This is a really small one. It also doesn't It's all right, it's not the worst thing in the world There's only like 120 bucks like it's it's decent for the money I paid for it, but it can't handle a lot of stuff and it doesn't cut straight very well. Yeah Yeah, getting in getting a nice bandsaw be really nice I wouldn't necessarily necessarily replace this one. Maybe I'll let the kids use this one, but yeah, I Did score a super nice one of these a while ago. That was sweet Although it does need a few repairs and stuff. Well, anyway, let's get back to this bed Okay, so I better just remember Everything I took apart They go there and this goes Here Now this piece here is the tensioner for that wheel to make the to make the blade tight You have to excuse the lighting. It's so dark outside right now because there's a storm And there's a bolt that goes in through here into here So this pulls pivots here and pushes the wheel out So that's what puts tension on that wheel to keep the blade tight. So I want all that intact Um, yeah, I wanted you want to get this thing off. So let's seal it. Oh, you know, I don't want this stupid thing Anyway, this is this is the blade guard Which I won't need for the for what I'm gonna do with this. Oh, God. How's it even attached? All right, let's get that blade out of there. Yeah, that was a broken one Anyway, I have a whole bunch of these blades that came with this thing. All right on this thing It's oh, you know what this is this isn't even like Really supposed to support much. This is the thing that sets your cut height So I don't think I'm really losing much stability by taking this off completely All right with that bottom section out of the way That still feels pretty sturdy. I think sufficient for my purpose All right, so the blade comes through here And then goes through this little guide and this bearing here Uh, rests along the back of the blade to keep the blade from, you know, going that way That bearing looks pretty good It's it's got the same thing at the other end. So oh wow That should not spin so freely that means there's no oil grease left in that bearing So This bearing see it doesn't spin freely like that like it stops pretty quickly It's because it's got grease inside it now the grease will slow it down at a low speed but When it when it speeds up the grease will lubricate it and keep it from getting too hot This one though with no grease Spins very freely with like no force on it But if it gets a lot of force on it, it's gonna heat up So I'm gonna have to get some grease into that now Because it's got this same. Yeah, it looks like it's got the exact same setup here It doesn't it doesn't matter which direction the blade is going So I could reverse the blade and have it going the direction I want There is something that I will have to change though Okay, right here Is a thing that scrapes against the wheel This one doesn't Okay, here's one here's one on this side This scrapes against the wheel when it's in the right spot And keeps any sawdust from building up on the wheel Because you don't want sawdust building up on the wheel because it'll go around here And then it'll get under the blade and it could screw things up So This keeps any sawdust from building up But If I turn this the other direction if I want to reverse the direction of the wheels Then this won't work. So I'll have to take this off And I don't know attach it somewhere up here facing the other opposite direction This one I mean I Could just leave it In the same spot take off the bolt And if this is symmetrical just flip it over and have it Aim the other way Now the downside of that is as it's coming around The sawdust would would get like pushed off, but then it could You know have momentum and fall back down in there. So I just have to I just put something to block it No, I don't think I can figure that out. That's not too too big of a problem So there's nothing it looks like there's nothing around here That would prevent me from reversing the direction Of the blade, which would be nice because I don't want to put the motor at the top I definitely want to put the motor at the bottom This is like the laziest engineering I've ever seen Spring pins. Is that what these things are called? These things Can you see those right? Yeah, they just jammed those in there And doubled them up. Whoa, that's good enough Oh, a bunch of goons and what fits on this is This thing here So this is not this is obviously not the The sprocket that drives the chainsaw chain Been replaced by this thing But if I get a sprocket From another chain saw I can put it on here get a bar turn this back into a chainsaw I bet it's pretty nice. Anyway I could mount this on another motor Stick it in here And then run this thing Yeah, so that thing back there it turns this gear which turns that one Makes the whole thing go What's the gear ratio here? What are they? Okay, this has nine teeth and then this has I can't count under here, but it looks like it's about 18 from here To there so the ratio of this to that is one to two And there's six of those So about one to 12 total Now I'm curious what the ratio is on my other bandsaw Oh, jayme you need to get the vacuum cleaner out here. I know I know I know. Oh, wow This one is like It's like one to two maybe You can actually see this sprocket, but it's not Maybe double that one Huh This thing works pretty well So, yeah one to 12 is plenty So this is one to 12 plus the chainsaw has its own internal gearing Which is I don't know one to six or something like that. I don't know exactly what it is But it's also geared down between the motor and this thing here So I think I can Connect the motor directly to this It'll be geared down one to 12 which is still Way more geared down than my other bandsaw over over there, which seems to work totally fine And the reason this is geared down so much is because it's made to cut really wide things You know like like cutting full boards on a out of a log Of course if I'm going to turn it into a vertical bandsaw I'm never going to be putting like a giant piece of wood through it. You know, it'll be like smaller things So Yeah, it should be should be fine Well, here's a pretty serious motor I think this is probably overkill 750 watts. Is that right? Okay. That's not too crazy Uh, so it's only half the power of that thing I'm finding that hard to believe or whatever Still, I think this will be plenty of power for this thing Now the nice thing about this motor Is that I can power it from the same power source as my lumber mill So I could set up this Fancy bandsaw up at my lumber mill. I think I'm doing it. I'm not sure how to mount that motor though Hold on here we go For that might help Okay, so the thing with the motor is I want to I want to mount it on here perpendicular and have it really like as As straight onto this as possible Because a tiny bit of wiggle isn't going to be a big problem But if this is kind of like crooked, this is exaggeration, of course But if it's crooked, it's going to start creating a lot of heat And you know, it'll wear everything out in here and be a problem So I want to keep it straight like as perpendicular to this as possible So I'll bolt this on there then I can you know, I'll have to have some kind of spacers of a known unknown length To attach I can bolt right into this. Okay. I think I got it Yeah, something didn't quite feel right when this wheel was turning and uh I don't know if you can hear that But uh, there's no grease inside these bearings at least one of them anyway I'll have to open them both up and Stuff grease into them. I can see the wheels in there. They're not greased at all This is a tuba lithium grease It's still a little bit rough, but I'm gonna give it the uh good enough stamp of approval This thing has kind of a weird shaped hole. So that's what I made it for Okay, that is on there. All right If I remember right the hole in the middle of here is threaded So I should be able to put a bolt on there to keep that in place. Not that it's moving Hammered it on. It's pretty tough cleaning up those threads a little bit in there. Okay That should hold that sucker on place All right, mister Imperial noodle units Okay, that is three and three eighths imperial noodle units What are the chances I got that on the first try? Is there a tiny bit snug but Totally within acceptable parameters. Well, that one's nice and loose All right, that's a nice big surface to use for attachments Oh, do I get it lined up? Okay I cannot believe I found pieces that actually fit in here Well, it was one piece. I cut it in half Well, I did have to flip this piece over And do a tiny bit of filing And that's fit so well I just found these on a shelf over there Amongst my stuff my scrap stuff. I'm always collecting scrap stuff. Why? Because when I need some obscure piece of stuff To fit some spot perfectly There it is So awesome. That looks great Oh, it's so good All right a couple more screws through there and there All right, these are the two bolts I've got in there so far. They should not be in the way the blade comes through here Actually, I mean it's below here, but even if it was hitting there The blade guide is taller than it. Anyway, so nothing's hitting that This one there's nothing near that I want to put two more over here I can definitely get one in here because there's space behind there Yeah That won't hit And over here, I think I get one right in there Nice. Oh, that's This is working out At this point, I should be able to turn this on And this battery is not the right voltage. So this is going to be way underpowered, but I think it'll be enough power to make it go at least The gear runs a little noisy but uh The blades on track where it should be. I did adjust the thing to where I thought it should be so Let me get a little piece of wood here I'm only detecting a minor issue at the moment On this side, the blade looks great It's pretty much in the middle of the thing and you know, I adjusted it and was turning it by my hand Until I got it to the right spot. So this this side looks great If I go to the other side The blade is kind of way way over to this side It's like way over here. I want it more in the middle. Although at the moment it does totally work I just think it's gonna be It's gonna be hard on on the guides for the blade coming out of here If the blade is not centered because when it gets to the guides here, they're gonna have to push it forward So it's gonna put a lot of pressure on them But as the blade comes across here Since there's nothing, you know between this whole area Kind of pushing the blade in any particular direction It would be really easy. It wouldn't take much force To just nudge it a tiny bit this way and get it to to ride on the the pulley in the center Wait a minute Tracking adjustment bolt. There is tracking adjustment at this end. All right Well, it looks like it's shoved all the way to one end Yeah, I gotta fix that. All right Okay after closer inspection and doing some adjustments The tracking adjustment was all the way to one side because that's The direction that tries to pull the blade in the direction it needs to go and it's maxed out and the blade is still Too far on the other side. So maybe I should just put a a bearing in here to you know, give it a bit of help Well, let's check what's in my box of weird bearings. Okay way too huge After kind of examining everything I think this is the best way to do this This bearing is a pretty thick wall bearing so it shouldn't wear out anytime soon Right now. I'm just tapping the holes into this because I can't get a nut inside there Ha and most of the safety guard still fits just cut out a little chunk for the bearing Oh still got three lights sweet. It's not even using that much energy Of course, this runs on a much higher voltage than that little battery. So it'll have a lot more power But even on that man, I think runs great man. That is sounding way better than I've ever heard it before I'm thinking whoever had it before bent something or I don't know. I don't know either way That just cut through that wood so nice so easily and I bet I could cut boards out of logs with this thing I'm thinking at some point. I'm gonna connect this to my lumber mill that's up on the hill It runs on the same power so I can just take the wires off that connect them right to this motor And up there. I've got a big track and a big carriage. I could just bolt this right to the carriage I wouldn't even have to Yeah, I could just I don't even have to bolt it. I could just clamp it on there with a few clamps and run it through some logs and cut some boards So I bet I'm going to end up doing that at some point So I think when I turn this into a bandsaw like a like a vertical bandsaw Going this way Table here, you know table legs down I'm thinking I'm going to make it so it's easy to detach In case I want to do something else with it. All right Now what do I have to do to get that into this And uh, oh wow, it's dinner time. Oh man. I did not realize it was that late Um, I better go make some food Oh, wow, we got rain and thunder again today Yeah, at least my buckets are filling up. I guess I'm working on this again. All right. Where are we? I'm not sure if I'll use that part I do want to keep this thing However, it's got rusty screws bolts and that's so I want to replace those I don't want this rusty crap Hey focus I'm still not sure how I'm going to connect this thing So I'm just making some attachment points by rethreading the original attachment points To fit the bolts that I have Okay, I think I got it This piece Bolts on the end here, right? So I'm going to take this Mount it on here And I'll attach it on the back somewhere To here and some stuff back there I'm not going to attach it to the front here because Taking this piece off is how you change the blade and I don't want to get in the way of that if I don't have to And then yeah, once this is on there, then I just bolt it right onto here Piece of cake and then I cut a slot out here So that I can get this Into the blade And then I put a piece on here. Well, when I did when I bolted this piece on here to cover the slot I was thinking this was going to be at this side, but since it's going to be out here I have to take this off and put it off on the side So it's because it's going to be in the way of cutting stuff. So yeah, I'll just take this off put it on the side Okay, I don't want this flexing up and down. That's actually pretty sturdy. I'll attach something from here down to there I'll make it real stiff nice Much better How's this going? Oh man, that is almost a bandsaw. Oh Okay, now I just need something Connect to the this end to keep it from moving up and down Yeah Now the table can still move That way a little bit so Can I attach this to there somehow or Let me think Oh, if this silly thing was longer I could bolt through it into this Take this off and make it a longer one That's better, okay Now we need some kind of legs on this thing Yeah, that's not gonna Oh, you know what if I take this piece out and replace it with the piece that I took out of here That could then be one of the legs There are a bit of support for the motor not that it needs it the motor's not moving anyway Well, that's it That should totally work. I guess I better test it All right, well, I definitely want to put something in this space here Uh But anytime I'm cutting anything big that's not gonna matter So, ah, we'll just worry about that later. Oh, I did No, I think I want something a little a little more heavy duty than that Man, that is going to go a lot faster when I get a 24 volt power supply on it And I have four of those my house is 24 volts Well, it also has an inverter for like 110, but the main power is 24 volts Both my boats outside are 24 volts and then the lumber mill Also runs on 24 volts so I can I can run this thing full power In any of those places and that's cool that I can run it on either boat So I could I could put it on a boat take it somewhere And then cut stuff just with the boat power Good thinking Jamie All right, Jamie clean up. Oh, oh, it will be good to get the metal bits out of my feet All right floors looking good. What else do I need to clean up? Me You know what I did this morning I admit myself a new shirt Which is totally dry. Well, I didn't make the shirt. Oh, yeah Oh, that's a good looking one right there. I like it