Do All Vertical Bandsaw conversion

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

Hey Guys,

so i have a 16" variable speed do-all bandsaw and im wondering if anyone ever made guides to twist the blade like a horizontal bandsaw.. id like to feed long pcs of material through that wont clear the throat..

thanks !

Joe

GregSY · Feb 22, 2017

At first I thought this was really stupid but the more I think about it....it could work especially with thinner blades and if you were cutting stock that was not too tall so there was plenty of space to let the blade twist. I'll be interested to see if anyone says 'yes'.

johnoder · Feb 22, 2017

45* tilt guides are stock Do All

DocsMachine · Feb 22, 2017

I have a 1945 DoAll textbook that shows exactly those- guides to rotate the blade outward in order to part long stock- as a common factory-supplied acessory.

I'd be surprised if you couldn't find a set on the used market, or even get some new straight from DoAll. A clever guy with a bit of patience could make a set with relative ease as well.

Doc.

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

DocsMachine said:
I have a 1945 DoAll textbook that shows exactly those- guides to rotate the blade outward in order to part long stock- as a common factory-supplied acessory.

I'd be surprised if you couldn't find a set on the used market, or even get some new straight from DoAll. A clever guy with a bit of patience could make a set with relative ease as well.

Doc.

Doc, can you share any pictures so i can get an idea ?

thanks,

joe

johnoder · Feb 22, 2017

Illustrated on page 114 in my 1943 DoAll Contour Saws

On page 3 here

http://www.vintagemachinery.org/pubs/256/6545.pdf

Joseph Durnya said:
Doc, can you share any pictures so i can get an idea ?

thanks,

joe

garyhlucas · Feb 22, 2017

We had a Grob bandsaw and there was a little drawer under the table with the guides to twist the blade 90 degrees and we actually used it from time to time with no trouble. Its just like a horizontal bandsaw.

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

guys,

i have found the 90 degree saw guide brackets.. im pretty sure i can make those..

thanks !

joe

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

garyhlucas said:
We had a Grob bandsaw and there was a little drawer under the table with the guides to twist the blade 90 degrees and we actually used it from time to time with no trouble. Its just like a horizontal bandsaw.

Unfortunately the guy took all the accessories.. including the blade welder... oh well.. she is still a beaut !!

kensmachine · Feb 22, 2017

I will look and see if I have a spare set in my box of doall guides I know I have a set of them but there not for doall they look import Ken

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

kensmachine said:
I will look and see if I have a spare set in my box of doall guides I know I have a set of them but there not for doall they look import Ken

thanks Ken, that would be much appreciated !

Joe

DocsMachine · Feb 22, 2017

johnoder said:
Illustrated on page 114 in my 1943 DoAll Contour Saws

-That's essentially identical to the photo and description in my book.

Doc.

jkopel · Feb 22, 2017

I don't know about rotating the blade 90 degrees, but here are some pictures of the 45 degree ones that came with my saw.
Last pic shows the top guide compared to a standard.

Joseph Durnya · Feb 22, 2017

jkopel said:
I don't know about rotating the blade 90 degrees, but here are some pictures of the 45 degree ones that came with my saw.
Last pic shows the top guide compared to a standard.

that would work for me as well.. here is the pic and description from the instruction manual..

jkopel · Feb 23, 2017

I will say that I have used mine and they work just fine... as long as you do a good job welding and grinding the blade (or buy a pre-made blade).
I was trying to use them with a 1/2 wide blade and having a hell of a time keeping the blades from breaking. After I started doing a bit of extra annealing on the weld it work a lot better.

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