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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #100 on: February 19, 2019, 11:46:46 AM »
the linear bearings and rails are 20mm x 1500mm long the bearing and rails came from ebay cot $86 delivered. The 8020 was dumpster diving at work. But normally that shit is really expensive.

The plate on the router is the plate for my router table. It just happens to fit perfectly in the 8020 grooves.

I have $86 into that setup. Those are the bearings I was going to use on the mast of my sawmill carriage. The worked really well for the router sled :)

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #101 on: February 19, 2019, 11:51:54 AM »
the linear bearings and rails are 20mm x 1500mm long the bearing and rails came from ebay cot $86 delivered. The 8020 was dumpster diving at work. But normally that shit is really expensive.

The plate on the router is the plate for my router table. It just happens to fit perfectly in the 8020 grooves.

I have $86 into that setup. Those are the bearings I was going to use on the mast of my sawmill carriage. The worked really well for the router sled :)

Impressive!! Exactly what is 8020? that railing?

Did some research, found the rails and the 8020 on ebay, how bout all the hardware holding it all together? Where did you get that? I may have a new project coming up! ;-)
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #102 on: February 19, 2019, 12:04:39 PM »
Company name is Minitec, the aluminum extrusions in the video is 8020. Just the name they use. Very expensive erector set.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #103 on: February 19, 2019, 12:06:04 PM »
I got lucky and they threw it all away at work so I re purposed it from the garbage bin.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #104 on: February 19, 2019, 12:08:02 PM »
That is stuff I had on hand but I would actually say get a couple sets of linear bearings for the main rails then another set of smaller linear bearings for the horizontal rails

If you really want to get crazy then you can put stepper motors on it and power it all. I may do that one day but we will see. It does not take long to do. That slab was 14" wide by about 48" long.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #105 on: February 19, 2019, 01:57:27 PM »
That is stuff I had on hand but I would actually say get a couple sets of linear bearings for the main rails then another set of smaller linear bearings for the horizontal rails

If you really want to get crazy then you can put stepper motors on it and power it all. I may do that one day but we will see. It does not take long to do. That slab was 14" wide by about 48" long.

I could run that slab through my planer.

I'm looking to make these into a countertop for my kitchen and a set up like that might be nice! Might have to look into this.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #106 on: February 19, 2019, 01:59:43 PM »
My planer has yet to become mine yet :) yet. :)

I need to buy one someday.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #107 on: February 19, 2019, 02:03:55 PM »
My planer has yet to become mine yet :) yet. :)

I need to buy one someday.

I used a Delta Benchtop 12 1/2 incher for years, just picked up a Jet 16" a couple months ago to do the bigger stuff

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #108 on: February 19, 2019, 02:09:34 PM »
Rainy day today so I got 3 more pallets ready to go..

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #109 on: February 19, 2019, 06:05:10 PM »
Love the pallets... Great idea nailing the stickers right on the top.
My pallets are made from ash and I put treated 4x4 on the bottom.
I'm always looking for short cut off's treated 4x4's.

Love the router sled. I made one for my saw mill. Works great but
it's just not big enough. I building my second one and it's going to
be 12 foot by 8 foot. It's going to hang in the barn with cables that
will lift the whole thing up and out of my way when not in use.
What router bit are you using if I may ask ?
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #112 on: February 19, 2019, 06:57:40 PM »
Thats the same bit I'm using for the one I made for my band mill plane.

The photo is what I'm going to use on my new sled...
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #113 on: February 19, 2019, 07:59:08 PM »
I have been wanting one of those for my vertical steel mill forever. I do wonder whether it will like the rpm's, wait your not going to use a router are you? just a motor? wonder what kind of finish it will leave.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #114 on: February 20, 2019, 03:29:10 AM »
I just might add a drum sander to the unit. I put one on the saw mill.
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #115 on: February 20, 2019, 06:35:01 AM »
I toyed with building a drum sander to. my dad has an 18" open sided thickness sander that is a drum. works well but takes long time to get slabs smooth. Especially when you have to do half and half.

I have been contemplating building a planer for the sawmill bed. but the heads alone would set me back probably 3000. Norwood makes a $5000 unit that is 25" wide.

https://www.norwoodsawmills.com/en_us/log-moulder-lx26

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #116 on: February 20, 2019, 07:55:59 AM »
You don't need to spend $5000 if you make it like a router sled.
You already have the rails in place.
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #117 on: February 20, 2019, 08:14:16 AM »
AO, check this out

https://www.amazon.com/PZRT-Aluminum-Profile-Connector-Accessories/dp/B076D76YDD?pd_rd_w=ixWk2&pf_rd_p=27caa0ec-8650-499a-b248-e1e5e59c9db3&pf_rd_r=H4YXXDJ5NX84X4YZB9AS&pd_rd_r=5b8fe793-0c2b-4c74-be83-cf0cd4085cfb&pd_rd_wg=O9M6I&ref_=pd_gw_cartx

your connectors.

Thanks, I favorited that..

So how do you have your router attached? You router base just happens to fit in the slots in the rails?

Oh, do you have that permanently mounted to a table or what?

Thanks

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #118 on: February 20, 2019, 08:19:04 AM »
yes. the plate on the router is for my router table. it has quick release plate. the plate fits perfect in the rails.

KB, I just like the idea of being able to surface material faster. If I took the time to setup stepper motors and controls for size then it would be great to set it on the bed, clamp it, set the size in the program, and hit run. Then walk away and do something else.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #119 on: February 20, 2019, 11:52:18 AM »
No need for expensive steppers when wheel chair motors are sooo cheap.
Almost every week I see them in our local junkyard.
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #120 on: February 20, 2019, 12:06:48 PM »
that is true. not hard to put limit switches on it. Would be easy to automate just using limit switches you can set for the slab size.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #121 on: February 20, 2019, 03:40:06 PM »
With a little electronics the limit switches can be reverse switches
and timers to inch one way or the other. I made a CNC machine
using only DC motors. No steppers.

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« Reply #122 on: February 20, 2019, 03:54:42 PM »
yup. exactly what I was thinking. only reason for stepper motor is feedback. otherwise some type of rotary encoder could be used.

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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #123 on: February 22, 2019, 06:49:52 PM »
I had my band wheels off so I could remachine the bearing bearing races.
Today I put everything back together and fired the mill up for the first time
this year. I cut some walnut. everything worked great. Honda started on the
3rd pull. we still got snow on the ground. Ready for spring I am....
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Re: What did you do at your saw mill today?
« Reply #124 on: February 23, 2019, 07:23:06 AM »
So here's my little "saw yard" as I call it..

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And I was back to cutting some SYP. Mostly 1x10's. I can either use them for board and baton boards for a couple little buildings I need to put up, or I can S4S them and then T&G them for inside of one of my bigger buildings I'm refurbishing. Eventually I'll cut enough for both! ;-)



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