Archive for August, 2008

Wahoo – we got a horizontal band saw!

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

You just got to love craigslist. We just got the shop a previously loved horizontal band saw!

Our new horizontal band saw!

Our new horizontal band saw!

If it seem strange to be excited about getting something like a band saw then your probably have never spent the day with a hack saw. I cut the stock pictured below for a bunch of shaft couplers in about a half hour – as opposed to taking up the better part of a day! This will defiantly help us move from just prototyping to production.

There would be the usually pictures of bringing it home, only there was a bit of an accident and we emptied the better part of the coolant trough onto the shop floor. By the time we got the mess cleaned up and the saw running we realize we forgot to take any pictures.

Coupler blanks I didn't have to cut these by hand!

Coupler blanks I didn't have to cut these by hand!