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Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2018
Doubt many of you remember me as I've been dealing with nonsense in my life preventing me from participating in these forums as much as I would like. But I originally joined because I had some questions about this saw when I bought it for a couple hundred dollars at auction. I've read/referenced this site for much longer than that. But enough of my backstory. I'll get to the point. This saw was filthy and needed a few minor repairs to bring it back to good operating condition. It was primarily just cleaning and painting, but the coolant pump was missing and the seals on the hydraulic piston were shot. I contacted Dake and was told the seals for the piston would run me about $78. I couldn't justify this so I did what I could with some o-rings and silicone gasket-maker. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that it worked perfectly. As far as the coolant pump, I used a pump that I had similar to a universal auto fuel pump, but runs on 120VAC, and connected it to a steel flexible hose with just a quick connect fitting for my compressor as the "nozzle" since it's just flood coolant anyways. I spliced the power cable together with the power cable of the bandsaw. The intake/filter and hose were still on the saw so I still used them to feed into my pump and some random fittings connect the pump and steel flex hose. I added a few other minor odds and ends - like pads to keep the doors from banging into the body when opened, I added a link v-belt, and I replaced the casters (the originals were trashed). I went for a similar look to the current Dake saws without needing to hack up my saw. Here are some before pics