Richard Rogers
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2001
- Location
- Bentley, Louisiana
Hello everyone. I have a HE&M bandsaw that was an automatic machine, but got flooded. All the controls were ruined, and it was also hydraulic tension and clamping of the workpiece vise, which was ruined too. However, the frame, gearbox, lifting cylinders (it's double column) are good.
I've changed the tensioning to manual, removed all the ruined auto controls, and am in the process of making this a manual saw. I'm still going to make it hydraulic lower/raise of the saw head though.
Now I'm to the point of putting an acme screw on the movable vise to do the clamping. I was wondering about what pitch to go with for with the screw. Would 4 tpi be too "fast" of a pitch? The reason I ask is that I can buy 1 1/2 4tpi acme all-thread, which I need to machine down to 1" and put a key on the end (long story, but that's the size it'll have to machine down to)
I may just go ahead and cut the acme threads myself and make my own screw. That way I can make the thing any way I feel like, and not be bound by what a piece of all-thread was. Not decided yet.
By the way, if anyone has a little hyd power unit I could use for the single-acting twin cylinders that raise the head, give me a yell.
Anything to say?
Thank you for any help.
Richard
I've changed the tensioning to manual, removed all the ruined auto controls, and am in the process of making this a manual saw. I'm still going to make it hydraulic lower/raise of the saw head though.
Now I'm to the point of putting an acme screw on the movable vise to do the clamping. I was wondering about what pitch to go with for with the screw. Would 4 tpi be too "fast" of a pitch? The reason I ask is that I can buy 1 1/2 4tpi acme all-thread, which I need to machine down to 1" and put a key on the end (long story, but that's the size it'll have to machine down to)
I may just go ahead and cut the acme threads myself and make my own screw. That way I can make the thing any way I feel like, and not be bound by what a piece of all-thread was. Not decided yet.
By the way, if anyone has a little hyd power unit I could use for the single-acting twin cylinders that raise the head, give me a yell.
Anything to say?
Thank you for any help.
Richard