08-26-2012, 04:19 AM
(08-25-2012, 03:39 AM)pineyfolks Wrote: it has a blade welder but seems to work best on carbon steel blades. I mostly use bimetal ones.
It has air over hydraulic table feed also.
It took a little while to iron out the welding process for Bimetal blades on mine but nowadays I have a 90% or better success rate which is about the same as Carbon steel, let me guess; it welds ok but snaps on the join as soon as you put tension on the blade? if so I wrote up the procedure that works for me, with Bi metal it's all about getting the post annealing process right which takes time and practice, I'll try to find the post where I gave my method.
And I'm so jealous of your Hydraulic table feed, it's the one thing I would add to mine, I bought mine new about five years ago and as the 18" version was $1200 more expensive I went with the otherwise identical 16" version, which was a good call as I've not yet needed that extra 2" and the $1200 was well spent on other things I have used.
Best regards
Rick
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