[sdiy] Need a bandsaw...

[James Patchell]

First one I thought of too...ran and got my roll of Duct Tape just in case 
I ran across a Nash Metro or a Chrysler K Car....

At 07:07 PM 10/23/2004 -0700, harrybissell wrote:
>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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