Well, good news, for me anyway. :) I ran across this 1976 ad on Vintage Machinery.??The ad states the saw can be used in vertical mode! This tells me that the someone in the past either installed a different motor and didn't realize it could be reversed, or had blade tacking issues and their "fix" was to reverse the motor to "push" the blade rather than "pull" it. (To me, the saw was designed to have the blade "pulled" towards the lower drive wheel, rather than be "pushed" by it.) At least with this inferred confirmation, I can move forward with a bit of confidence that I'm at least driving towards the original design of the saw, rather than fighting the design.?
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More tweaking. :) Time to really use the ol'noodle and figure out what else is missing/wrong with this thing once I have the motor turning in the correct direction, causing the blade to run off track. Blade twist, wheel angle, heck, it may even be the blade.? The cool thing? Once I figure this out, the first "pulling" cuts will be used to fab a table for use in horizontal position.
Thanks for listening to be babble on, again. :)
Darren
