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Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
Fishing for ideas here.
At 68 years old, and with a broken back, I find raising the head of my Kalamazoo H9AW band cut off saw painful, and the pain gets worse with repetitions. I made the mistake of ordering 3 1/4" diameter aluminum round bars full length, when they should have been cut to 1 1/16" blanks for the lathe chuck. Hundreds of them, big mistake.
Anyway, my vision is a 1 1/2" diameter hydraulic cylinder driven by a shop air over oil reservoir activated by a foot pedal, the only job being to raise the head.
My first thought was pure air, but I imagine the head bouncing up and down, gotta regulate that. The pedal would have up, stop, and release. Pushing the pedal allows the constantly pressurized oil to flow up to the bottom of the cylinder to raise the head, pedal to the center holds it there, and pedal back up all the way releases air pressure in the reservoir while simultaneously stopping the shop air intake. This system to be independent of the original oil down feed system.
Does this sound like a workable setup? It could even be automated to raise at the end of the cut if it would work as envisioned.
Thanks for any ideas,
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At 68 years old, and with a broken back, I find raising the head of my Kalamazoo H9AW band cut off saw painful, and the pain gets worse with repetitions. I made the mistake of ordering 3 1/4" diameter aluminum round bars full length, when they should have been cut to 1 1/16" blanks for the lathe chuck. Hundreds of them, big mistake.
Anyway, my vision is a 1 1/2" diameter hydraulic cylinder driven by a shop air over oil reservoir activated by a foot pedal, the only job being to raise the head.
My first thought was pure air, but I imagine the head bouncing up and down, gotta regulate that. The pedal would have up, stop, and release. Pushing the pedal allows the constantly pressurized oil to flow up to the bottom of the cylinder to raise the head, pedal to the center holds it there, and pedal back up all the way releases air pressure in the reservoir while simultaneously stopping the shop air intake. This system to be independent of the original oil down feed system.
Does this sound like a workable setup? It could even be automated to raise at the end of the cut if it would work as envisioned.
Thanks for any ideas,
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