So the thought occurred to me yesterday as I looked at a piece of electrical conduit that had a right angle tapered bend to it; "If you can bend a piece of electrical conduit at both ends you can make a bow saw frame to hold a broken bandsaw blade in to create a bow saw.
My bandsaw blades are about 70" long. And they cost about $10 a piece. But they do break every so often. And at that price I just buy a new ones. There used to be a place that welded them back together somewhere. But I don't know of any or what someone might charge to do that. Could I solder one back together with silver solder? I don't know if I could. I have never tried. Had I had taken metal shop in High School I might know stuff like how to weld. But I can't weld.
But to create a bow saw out of a broken bandsaw blade. If it was one with a low teeth per inch count, I wonder how it would go through hard wood, like walnut?
And one would have to make fittings for the end of the bow saw to hold the blade securely in place. How could that be done? You would need a metal rod to insert in the end of the conduit. You might put an and slit in that metal rod and also in the conduit. You would like need to make at three holes per end.
1. One to keep the metal rod in the conduit from moving.
2. One above the width of the band saw blade.
3. One below the width of that band saw blade.
Now 2 and 3 should be threaded. Or threaded on one side of the slit. So that a machine screw could go through and tighten that slit on the bandsaw blade on the top and bottom of the blade.
Or you could just say you are not going to thread anything and put a lock nut on all three bolts. You would likely use a locknut to fix your bolt from backing out of the threaded rod insert the other way. And I think that bolts of this nature tend to use finer threads.
And sometimes with something like this you might also want a secondary clamp to act as an end stopper so that the bandsaw blade is less likely to loosen in the 1,2, 3 clamp above.
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I don't know if I will ever get to it. But that is how I would do it. Tim goes by really quickly. It seems like every day I roll the garbage can to the curb but actually it is only once a week. Where does time go? It is gone with the wind. And if you are a good person, frankly you don't give a dam. I mean just think about what the term "existence" means. To exist as a good person. And you ask yourself, does a bad person really like existing as a bad person? One has a finite existence, and one defines existence. Maybe if you forced them to sober up you might afford them some salvation?
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Could you create an apparatus such that it moves the bowsaw back and forth and it is weighted. Such that you could flip a switch and it goes back and forth and eventually cuts through a large log? I don't think so, seeing how bandsaw blades might want to veer in such a non guided situation? But it is something to conceptualize. Where there is a will there is a way.
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