Bandsaw Restoration: Before Restoration
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I bought the bandsaw on ebay about 8 years ago. It was already fairly old (I'm not sure how old) and showed signs of a hard life. The photo on the left above was taken not that long after I bought it.
The switch housing was broken into two pieces and held together with electrical insulation tape; the motor made a horrendous noise when it went round; the stand wobbled like crazy and the seal around the gearbox didn't, well, seal.
Here's a close-up of the fan cover on the motor:
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That somewhat battered shape is a sign of what it had been through. When I got it, the cover was badly misshapen and the fan was hitting the cover as it went round. I took the cover off and beat it back into somewhere near the original shape, but haven't done much more with it since.
As for all the other problems, I've pretty much lived with them for the last 8 years but my experience in metalworking and the equipment I have available have both come on a long way since then (back then I had a mini-lathe and a bench grinder and that was about it; my first experience of metalwork was the mini-lathe).
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These photos show the inside of the switch housing and the (now removed) stand. You can see that they've both had a very hard life.
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