Comments on: New Bandsaw brings its own challenges! http://mikes-models.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/new-bandsaw-brings-its-own-challenges/ A website for the novice and expert model engineer. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Freeman http://mikes-models.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/new-bandsaw-brings-its-own-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-10610 Mike Freeman Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:48:01 +0000 http://mikes-models.com/blog/?p=2061#comment-10610 Hi, yes the Clarke will cut ferrous metal (with the right blade - easily available in UK) however if you do a lot of vertical work I would make a new table as the pressed steel one supplied is not really substantial. Also the stand as supplied is rubbish! Worst part of the whole thing! I made my own wheeled stand and its much better now. Also I have heard that some have problems where the bade slips off the wheels but to be fair that has never happened to me (well not yet anyway!). Would I buy one again? Absolutely but wouldn't even assemble the thin pressed steel supplied stand! Like every tool if it is set up correctly it will cut square. It didn't take much effort to get mine running true and it is worked hard (when I get out to the workshop!). That's my experience but you must make your own mind up. I will be casting an aluminum table for horizontal cutting when I next fire up the furnace so visit again and see how it works. Mike Hi, yes the Clarke will cut ferrous metal (with the right blade – easily available in UK) however if you do a lot of vertical work I would make a new table as the pressed steel one supplied is not really substantial. Also the stand as supplied is rubbish! Worst part of the whole thing! I made my own wheeled stand and its much better now. Also I have heard that some have problems where the bade slips off the wheels but to be fair that has never happened to me (well not yet anyway!). Would I buy one again? Absolutely but wouldn’t even assemble the thin pressed steel supplied stand!

Like every tool if it is set up correctly it will cut square. It didn’t take much effort to get mine running true and it is worked hard (when I get out to the workshop!). That’s my experience but you must make your own mind up. I will be casting an aluminum table for horizontal cutting when I next fire up the furnace so visit again and see how it works. Mike

]]> By: wullie http://mikes-models.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/new-bandsaw-brings-its-own-challenges/comment-page-1/#comment-10264 wullie Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:59:27 +0000 http://mikes-models.com/blog/?p=2061#comment-10264 So matey is that clarke cbs bandsaw any good, am thinking of buying one but not for using horizontal its got to be good vertical and its got to be able to cut ferrous metal let me know if a should buy one Cheers So matey is that clarke cbs bandsaw any good, am thinking of buying one but not for using horizontal its got to be good vertical and its got to be able to cut ferrous metal
let me know if a should buy one
Cheers

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