# 1 saw bench. build

[weisyboy]

i wont be pushen it for long,

i fixed the binding yesterday, am hoping to get the feed cable on today, and will get 2 pulleys threw the week, to hook up the power feed.

will also change the dogs and that after that, i dint wanna spend to mutch time on the trolly till i new it was gunna work properly.

[paul case]

thats how i work too, conquer 1 thing at a time.
the trouble you have pushing in the cut has had me thinking on my drive home.is that from saw chips on the track or is there another hang up?  if it is chips it may make a difference in the cut. a simple wiper of some kind would be an easy fix for that. the old circle mill that i had ran a 2x4 in a stake pocket on the trolley that drug on the track to keep that stuff knocked off. pc

[weisyboy]

the binding was caused by the cradle pitching towards the blade with the force of the blade cutting,

i put 2x 6x2s on the back side and it went threw no trouble,

i put the bottom gaurd on cos it was covering the rails in chips, nice that you are thinking about my probelms.

[paul case]

sometimes too much thinking and not enough solving though.  pc

[weisyboy]

im guilty of not enough thinking and to mutch doing, turns out you have to do a lot of things twice.

[bandmiller2]

Very nice Weasy,what do you use to sharpen those carbide bits.Do hope you told the railroad your using a section of their rails.Glad your putting on a power feed that pushing gets old fast.Frank C.

[weisyboy]

sharpened with a diamond stone in an angle grinder or the mini grinder from the lucas.

we'v got heaps of that railway line, 50 20' lengths or more, used to make cattle grids outa it.
 

[buildthisfixthat]

great clip of the saw ,about the cable feed i know you will be using a drum ,  i am using a drive pulley on a gear box that the cable loops around .however the pulley slips on the cable ? any ideas how to prevent the cable from slip on the pulley

[tyb525]

buildthisfixthat,

Have you tried putting more wraps of cable around the pully?

[weisyboy]

more wraps on the drum or rough it up with sompthing to give it more grip, also more or less tention will help, gota find the right amount.

[buildthisfixthat]

weisy that railway iron in the us is worth about five large  5,000± my cable drive is a single belt pulley i was going to add some welds on the pulley but dont want to chew the cable its tight but still slips alot what do you think about  rubber wheel instead ?

[bandmiller2]

Build&fix,are you talking about a flat pulley for your cable? Too heavy a cable on too small a pulley will tend to slip.Say if you had 3/8 cable on a 10 or 12" drum three or four wraps slippage shouldn't be a problem.I also like to have a heavy spring on one end to keep the cable tensioned. Frank C.

[weisyboy]

your cable may be to tight,

you drum may be to small.

a rubber tyre on your drum will help but wont last long.

what is the size of your drum?

[buildthisfixthat]

frank thanks for youre help you are correct it is what i have is a 3" v belt pulley with 1/2 cable i tried a flat 3"x 4"wide and the problem with that was after a few turns the cable was walking on top of itself and binding i tried 1 wrap and 2 wraps ,so i put the v belt pulley back ,i have some 3"semi hard rubber wheels with steel centers like used on a truck scale i can weld a large washer on make like a pulley ,think that would work?im restricted to a small pulley and it be some doing to downsize the cable

[weisyboy]

i say give it a try, it wont cost mutch and may solve your problem.

[buildthisfixthat]

yes i will give that a try see what happens thanks weisy