[sdiy] Need a bandsaw...

[harrybissell]

Lemme guess, Tim...

could your hero be... Red Green ???

H^) harry

Tim Ressel wrote:

> 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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