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[Tintin]

Hello All


I joined a few months ago but this has been the first opportunity to introduce myself. I from Coventry in England and worked within the automotive and aerospace industry for decades, but enjoy building small steam engines, gadgets, clocks and tools.


I have just completed a refurbishment of my Loughborough Trainer, including changing the motor to 3 phase and added an inverter for speed control, scraped the slides and gib strips and added a DRO system to X and Y axis.
I’m now just about to start building the most compact power hacksaw I can, from scrap material I have hanging about the place.


If I can help with anyone’s questions I will be more than happy to do so.

 

[bazmak]

Welcome tintin,how about making your hacksaw build your first thread
All the trials and tribs you will get plenty of good advise. Regards barry

 

[///]

Hi Tintin, welcome!

Sounds like you will have some interesting build threads for us in future :thumbup:

 

[Tintin]

I'll take your advice on the the thread, I'll be interested in what people have to say.

Ady

 

[Herbiev]

Welcome Ady. Looking forward to your build thread.

 

[Cymro77]

I would love to see the build thread for the motorized hacksaw. I hope you are making it without welding. I have no capability to weld and I do need a hacksaw!!

 

[stragenmitsuko]

There's a guy on youtube called myfordboy .
He build a compact power hacksaw wich seems to work very wel .
Sadly he's selling the plans , but the video on youtube should give you a pretty good idea how it works .


Pat

 

[Tintin]

I'll try to avoid welding.
If you have a 3D printer you might want to look at you tube as there is a conpact saw using 3D parts. They can be down loaded from thingiverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GehdclfbFl4


This is the basis of my own design, I am intending to use 3D printed parts, some cast parts and sheet.

I'm hoping to finish the draft design by the week end.