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It's a date related thing, not geographic. Standard on later saws. Miles (a member of the forum) over in your neck of the woods has one with it as well. Or did at least. He may have uesd it as a parts saw for his BGS. It was clearly a cost saving "value engineering" item -- in line with other...

This is probably not the case on this saw... that is an original Wadkin "value engineering" change on the later AGS saws. My saw has it as well. They probably used up their castings over a period of time and then just used that once they ran out. It is still pretty poor though and I intend to...

You guys get all the neat P/T machines over on your side of the pond! Just an FYI, but I've been very hesitant to powder coat anything cast iron with precision machining on it as the extended heat periods can cause pieces with unrelieved stresses to warp, so I would double check everything is...

So, I'm working on fabricating a riving knife assembly for a later AGS10 and while not really the same thing, given what I've learned I think you would need to do a lot of work to get something working (as opposed to just a simple splitter which is what it sounds like you have). I believe a...

Thanks for the good thoughts! I would have to say that watching this process might not be that fun as it mostly seems to consist of me standing around staring at parts trying to figure out something and then using inventive curse words. :)

Did some clean up on the blade flange. It was pretty much a mess as noted before, so it should be way more accurate at this point. Before, you could actually rock the removable flange across the inner flange where the two pin spanner holes are. Ended up taking the outer ring down -0.008 in...

Oooh, an RU. I'll have to live vicariously on this one as even with no car in the garage there will never be room for something fun like this.... The PK maybe would fit... or at least I would make it fit. :) I've been using those paint removal disks as well, although I've had hit or miss on...

Thanks! That FLEXAgraff-AS stuff if much closer to that square profile.... They won't even tell you how much it is unless you log in so that can't be a good sign... I very randomly found some that was copper clad and had a sqare profile on the flexy bits like the stuff Wallace used, but then...

I always get major jealousy issues when I see nice armorded conduit like this... I can't seem to find anything equevelant over here in the states. Is that original to the saw or a newer find? I'm going to reroute all the electircal on my AGS10, so I'm hoping to find a modern equivelant...

Notice you have that motor back together and looking good, so this is a day late and a dollar short commentary... Is that the rear bearing too? It spun on its shaft and in the housing? Yes, that is likely what they tried to do, but you really need to knurl it to get enough surface area to...

If anyone has one of these arbors out of their machine I would definitely be interested to see what measurements you have.... Deema, not 100% sure what you are referring to as far as the waist goes, but this is for sure out of spec for really any 6203 bearing (even C4 clearance bearings...

I'm 100% sure these are original for this saw, so they likely used 6203s in these later saws. The big issue is that with shaft measurements of 0.670" under the bearings these are way out of spec with such a heavy interference fit unless you go all the way to the far end of the scale. What I'm...

Ah, are they thinner than the ones on there or is that just a mod to get you some additional space? I am thinking of upgrading the bearings a bit as there is a little leeway given the measurements involved.

Thanks for all the info/help along the way! Why would you need the shims?

Also did some more prep work on the arbor housing. I turned it flat as it looked like someone attacked it with a file at the factory. I'm drawing up the bits I'm going to have to make to make a working parallelogram style riving knife so I wanted to have a surface that was referenceable. While...

So, that was a pain. The bearings did not want to come off this stupid AGS arbor. As I said before I tried it on my friend's massive arbor press and it didn't want to budge. Plan B was a big hydraulic H press.... that didn't work either. The arbor was starting to flex so I quit that while I...

Hi Gremmy, yes for sure, I took them completely out (and even squirted in some ATF/acetone in both at the time). I'm probably going to heat cycle that back retaining ring as it does look like it is on there quite tight. There is really no corrosion on this arbor at all... as it looks in the...

Hi Wallace, Do you spray multiple coats on the lettering or actually dollop it on? Works out nice, I still can't understand how you can get such a nice finish in the garage. Every time I spray anything something ends up in the paint (usually a tiny bug)...

I went over to a friend's place today to try and get the bearings, spacer, etc., off the arbor and even with his huge arbor press it didn't want to budge. Just to make sure I was doing the right thing, per the pic below, this whole mess is supposed to come off the back, correct? We put a...

Ahhh. Ok. All makes sense now... and crap. I totally forgot about the arbor nut as it will definitely interfere with any pin given the spacing. So, custom length threaded pins will definitely be needed... Once I get back to my nighttime shop class I'll get an inside micrometer on the holes in...