sub table for holding small parts in a bandsaw. appears in M.E.W 179

[wheeltapper]

Hi
I saw this in the latest issue of MEW and thought " what a good idea "
so here's my attempt at it.
heres the base with some clamps. the fence comes off for wider parts.


heres a small item clamped up.

and now the base is held in the saw vice.


the base will go to within 1/2 a mil of the blade.

Roy

[Brass_Machine]

Roy...

I bet that is a handy tool to have. I have thought about doing one myself. I cut a lot of stock on my bandsaw and some of it is small. I made a couple of adapter type things to accomplish what I want... but those are for specific things. This looks a lot more useful.

Eric

[DaveH]

Roy,

Thats a good mod, looks very versatile.

Always tricky cutting small parts, this looks to help alot

 
DaveH

[jim]

easy to make and great, i'm going to knock one of these up (would have been useful yesterday ) i'll be adding a "v" slot to hold round stuff

[Mike Cole]

I have been waiting for a good short piece vice for the bandsaw for a while. This is one I will be making very soon.

Mike

[mklotz]

Here's another approach to the problem...

http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=896.msg6012#msg6012

[Lew_Merrick_PE]

Several years ago (while my 14 inch bandsaw was in storage) I made a plywood insert table for my "horizontal/vertical" 6 inch "drop" bandsaw.  The table itself is a box construct that attaches to the screws that normally hold the insert-chip guard in place.  It has two component parts supporting it: (1) a (10 inch long) rip fence and (2) a cross-cut bridge that spans the "box."  I use a 6 inch stroke 1/2 inch bore pneumatic cylinder to feed material either (1) along the rip fence or (2) with the cross-cut bridge unit.  A couple of adjustable stops keeps the air cylinder from pushing key components into the blade.

It takes me about 10 minutes to install and set-up the unit on my "drop" bandsaw.  In terms of sawing through 1 inch thick material, that's about 1/4 inch of cut pushing by hand (which determines when it is "cost effective" for me to take the time to make the set-up).  The adjustable stop mates up with a contact on the air cylinder feed system so that a light (blue light bulb) turns ON when the cut has finished.  This allows me to do other things while waiting for my small (and slow) saw to munch through material.

[Bernd]

Nice use of the brown suff. 

Might even try something like that on my bandsaw.

Bernd