Building a bandsaw on the cheap from mostly scrap wood

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Sunday 3/27/16 continued

The pulley doesn’t fit over the flanges on the wheel. I hadn’t eased the corners on my flanges enough! So I trace the inside of my pulley and cut off the glued down flange corners. I need to use a chisel to clean up the glue and pry up those cut off corners.


All the corners trimmed


And the pulley fits now! I still need to trim down the outer diameter of the pulley and carve a notch in it for the v-belt.

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Sunday 3/27/16 continued

I glued up a few maple boards to make blanks for some other pieces: The guide bar and the guide bar clamping block. Now they just look like wood scraps glued together.


This are the plans I’m following to make these two pieces


Wednesday evening 3/30/16
I need to make another wheel shaped object! This time it’s a temporary drive pulley to drive the wheels and other pulley to make those guys round and nice. This temporary one is fairly crappy, but that’s OK. I cut it out on the jigsaw. This piece started life as a particle board piece of disposable furniture.


And I cut this v-belt groove with a stacked dado head cutter in the table saw. I clamped the fence down the proper distance from the blade, and then clamped a wooded board to the table saw surface to act as a fence on the other side of the pulley. I rotated the pulley on the raise dado cutter. Kind of worrisome because I had never done that on a table saw before, but I kept my hands clear and I don’t think there was much chance of kickback.