[sdiy] Need a bandsaw...

[Tim Ressel]

I thought this was DIY!  Make your own bandsaw! Get an
old Nash Metro and wrap some metal strapping around
the tires. Now use super glue to put
(home-made)diamond dust on the edge of the band....

--TimR

--- James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:

> While I am waiting for my bank account to go up
> enough to start buying 
> synth parts again, I decided to do a new power
> amplifier.  I acquired a 
> couple of heat sink extrusions a couple of years ago
> when the company I 
> worked for was shut down by the parent...not really
> sure how they ended up 
> at my house...they were supposed to go to the scrap
> metal recycler...oh, 
> well, accidents happen....
> 
> These things are 6 feet long and 21 inches wide.  I
> am trying to cut off a 
> piece that is 3.5 inches wide by 21 inches.  I don't
> have a bandsaw...and a 
> bandsaw in more than likely not in my future (they
> are pretty 
> expensive...or at least, the metal cutting type).  I
> am using my jig saw 
> with a metal cutting blade in it to cut off the
> piece...very slow and very 
> noisy work, to say the very least....I have about 7
> inches of the cut done 
> so far.
> 
>  From the piece, I will eventually cut out, I will
> make two pieces that are 
> 8 inches long by 3.376 inches wide...these will make
> up the two sides of 
> the rack chassis, with sheets of aluminum making up
> the top, bottom and 
> rear and a rack panel blank making up the front...
> 
> If any body has any ideas on how to cut this thing
> faster, let me know...I 
> am still trying to track somebody in town that will
> let me maybe use their 
> band saw...
> 
> 
>          -Jim
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