So tell, me how much is a 52″ saw blade worth?! Too bad there’s no picture. I guess you could make a dining table out of it for people you don’t like!
forestgirl — you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can’t take the forest out of the girl 😉
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Gee, I have a 48"er X 22 teeth. Too bad it was warped in a barn fire. eventually I am going to hang it in the shop with. "Chisel & Gouge Woodworks" written on it.
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Bruce S.
It's a circle sawmill blade. Search "Frick", amongst others to see them in action.
Jeff
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Just had an idea for the table top. Big tub, 2" bigger in diameter than the blade. Large bucket(s) of epoxy. Imbedded blade for table stop.
A casualty of all the closed mills no doubt. We were just notified out at the stable where I ride that there will be no more truck-loads of shavings for bedding, that mill has closed. The closest place to have them shipped from now is supposedly California. It gets very expensive bedding 17 horses with bagged shavings!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Back when I was in the cyclotron business, we encapsulated electromagnet windings* that way (some of them much bigger than 52" in diameter). The windings would go into a mold, then the whole thing was connected up to a vacuum pump (so there wouldn't be any air bubbles), and then the valve to the epoxy reservoir would be opened and the epoxy would flow in and fill all of the voids.
-Steve
*When people think of "windings," they think of wire, but these were made of multiple layers of 1/2" square copper tubing bent into a helix. During operation, cooling water would flow through the tubes.
I do not know for sure but have an idea of the cost. At least twenty years ago I picked up a very large blade for a friend,do not recall the diameter. The shipper was on my way home from work and forty miles out of Charlies way. When I picked up the blade the bill was taped to the crate, $1000.00 plus shipping. The blade is used in a diesel powered saw for sawing logs.If I recall the teeth were removable somehow. I suppose you would swap out teeth instead of the entire blade. Not absolutely positive about the teeth, but do recall the price. The blade was wider than my truck, probably at least 60 " in diameter.
mike
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