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This little bandsaw actually works, and i am surprised. It's a minimum of materials, poorly made, and isn't aligned for anything when delivered. But once set up, it does cut things. And it's much more versatile than an abrasive blade in a circular saw. And quieter! Once set up so it doesn't pop the blade, seize, or do anything else its prone to do (like leak magic smoke), you can let it do it's thing while you do other things.
It needs a lot of additions, which i can now make, because i now have a bandsaw!
I finally made an infeed support table with some scraps. It's removeable, sturdy, not too long, adjustable height at the far end, cheap, durable, and i can paint it any color i want. I can even add a digital length readout later, and an auto-indexer push feed. Etc.
These things use Chinese motors with plastic fans inside. The motor itself is fine if not overloaded, but the fans tend to come off the shaft, get stuck, make smoke, catch on fire, leak molten plastic, etc etc.. It doesn't help that the ratings on the motor nameplates are pure fantasy.
Pictures of saw in use, mostly NOT using the cheap badly built vise that comes on the saw......
Please take note, i seriously try to keep TWO visegrips on the work. If one doesn't hold tight enough, the work may tend to pivot around it, breaking blades, tossing stuff around, creating havoc, scaring your cat, and causing other unforeseen events. In some pics i take, you may be unable to see cleats, stops, welds, etc holding the work in addition to the visegrips.
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