Harbor freight bandsaw

[79bonanza]

Does anyone have one of those small horizontal bandsaws from harbor freight?

Is it any account or is it just another harbor freight let down lol

 

[blazinzuk]

I have one it takes some mods but works alright. I don't use it much

 

[79bonanza]

Does it have the hydraulic down feed

 

[CK10]

My dad has an older one of those that he got from a neighbor who had aged beyond using it, it's ok as long as your expectations from it are reasonable. You can turn it on and walk away from it which is nice. I think I'd rather have one of those than my chop saw for general uses, it's more versatile.

 

[blazinzuk]

Does it have the hydraulic down feed

Nope mine is the very base model lol

 

[79bonanza]

I didn't know if they came with that or not lol

 

[skunked]

I use the shit out of mine. It's needed some tweaks and adjustments but I have well over 1k cuts on it.

 

[79bonanza]

What kind of tweaking are you guys referring to? Two of you said it takes some mods lol

 

[skunked]

there's several adjustments to keep the blade tight, square and running on the pulleys right. Like any other saw, if you want it to cut true you need to spend some time tuning it.

 

[79bonanza]

Ohhh okay, I was thinking you guys meant like welding on brackets or grinding something down

 

[skunked]

Ohhh okay, I was thinking you guys meant like welding on brackets or grinding something down

nah, I haven't had to do anything like that. The base is a POS, I would like to fab up something stronger with better wheels at some point.

 

[79bonanza]

I was wanting to do something like this but on wheels, kinda like a bandsaw/chop saw hybrid. Not nearly as fancy either lol

Scotchman wants almost 7K for that setup

 

[blazinzuk]

Ohhh okay, I was thinking you guys meant like welding on brackets or grinding something down

Nope I replaced some of the knobs and redid some threaded portions. Took me a day but it runs pretty true now. I just didn't have room in my old place but when I get the new shop done I should be able to utilize it more

 

[JoshHefnerX]

Don't you have a giant badass bandsaw of doom?

 

[beags86]

I have one. It's fine for small things. Just remember it's a 600 dollar saw.
Grizzly is the same thing. I think bolt on tools is as well.
there is probably a handful of other brands that are the same just painted different as well.
One thing that's nice if you can order replacement parts from grizzly.

 

[79bonanza]

Don't you have a giant badass bandsaw of doom?

Yeah but it's a vertical saw, it takes forever to cut down round stock

 

[JoshHefnerX]

Fair enough, you thought about a chopsaw for that?

 

[79bonanza]

Fair enough, you thought about a chopsaw for that?

Yeah I like that dewalt setup that's out there now but it's like 500 dollars plus I feel like a bandsaw would be more universal

 

[skunked]

It's nice being able to set a cut and walk away.

 

[79bonanza]

I have a potential customer that wants some steel collars made. The material is 6" steel round bar stock. Idk if a chop saw would handle that