Re: Some questions on the Overhead Guard
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i messed up trying to post earlier?on this topic., so will try again. I did send Dennis a pic in case it might be useful, and he sent a gracious response. I am pretty?frugal and the old italian saw I bought a couple years ago for $1000 and a drive to Detroit did not have an overarm dust collector which was the least of my concerns when rebuilding it.? After a year or so and getting cleaned up and running, I found a used Saw Stop overarm on Craigslist for $300 that was closer to home, and I bought it and installed and was satisfied, but not impressed.? ?First pic.? The little 3 inch flex did not allow much air through even though my DC is a 5hp cyclone outside the shop with no filters on the exhaust. Then I got a pair of wonderful air clamps from an incredible machinist and? clamp maker I know, (tripling the value of my saw) and the 3 in flex hose of the Saw Stop interfered with the clamps as they?passed it.? The guard on the Saw Stop?was not long enough to cover the scoring blade well, so I decided to make a new guard that was longer, and could accomodate?a 4 inch hose.? The main arm of the Saw Stop?is 4" od tubing, so I bought a 3 ft long piece of 4 inch tube and fabricated a Y that a short piece of?4" flex could feed directly to the 4" main of the saw stop. Then fabricated a longer guard the same shape as the original so that the elevation adjustment of the original would still work. Second pic.? My saw is powered by a pair of VFD's (One for each motor) which I have found to be troublefree, and they made the addition of a kill switch for both motors in the overarm hood a simple task subsequent to the pics, which is the way I turn off the saw almost every time i use it. Final thing that will confirm my being a little on the spectrum is that my DC mains are under the concrete, and the port in the floor behind the saw isn't? visible in these pics. Mike On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 4:47?PM Denno via <dennis=[email protected]> wrote:
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