Blades with pins

[skronk]

Hi all,

I have a Jet scrollsaw and would like to use pinned blades. Can this be done ?

I find the plain blades awkward to change. I was using F.Dutchman and Hobbies but can't find good quality pinned.

Regards.

 

[martinka]

If I remember correctly, the pinned blades just hook over the end of the clamps. I seem to remember a groove across the clamp, just behind where the plain blade clamps. I've been wrong before though.

 

[jonluv]

Hi

Olsen do a range of pinned blades

If you Google Olsen blades you should be able to find a supplier

John

 

[skronk]

Hi

Olsen do a range of pinned blades

If you Google Olsen blades you should be able to find a supplier

John

Thanks John

 

[martinka]

Most people seem to spell 'Olson' with an 'e' but you'll have more luck spelling it with an 'o'.
http://www.olsonsaw.co.uk/

 

[bodgerbaz]

Hi all,

I have a Jet scrollsaw and would like to use pinned blades. Can this be done ?

I find the plain blades awkward to change. I was using F.Dutchman and Hobbies but can't find good quality pinned.

Regards.

Seems odd to want to go TO pinned blades. Usually people want to go to plain blades so they can do inside cuts. Will you just be cutting things out like puzzels then? Just curious really.

 

[skronk]

Hi all,

I have a Jet scrollsaw and would like to use pinned blades. Can this be done ?

I find the plain blades awkward to change. I was using F.Dutchman and Hobbies but can't find good quality pinned.

Regards.

Seems odd to want to go TO pinned blades. Usually people want to go to plain blades so they can do inside cuts. Will you just be cutting things out like puzzels then? Just curious really.

Truth be told it does not get used much. Bought it just because I fancied one. In no way does it earn its keep. I just found changing plain blades a bind and pinned may be easier.

 

[bodgerbaz]

Thanks for the reply. I was only curious because for inside cuts (fretwork) the smallest hole you would be able to drill, to feed the blade through, would need to be able to take the blade thickness and the two pins which would mean for delicate work the hole may have to be bigger than the shaped piece you wanted to cut out.

My advice would be to not make it a permanent fix to pinned blades so that if you really get into scrolling you still have a wide range of patterns to cut.

Good luck

Barry

 

[martinka]

If it is the Jet JSS-16, it is advertised as being able to use both types of blades, so there's nothing to alter. Mine came with a pinned blade fitted which I simply removed and fitted a plain blade. It will be just as easy to go the other way.

 

[skronk]

If it is the Jet JSS-16, it is advertised as being able to use both types of blades, so there's nothing to alter. Mine came with a pinned blade fitted which I simply removed and fitted a plain blade. It will be just as easy to go the other way.

Don't you find it a bind when fitting unpinned blade to bottom connection with the allen key ? Puts me right off using it !!

 

[martinka]

I no longer have the saw, but I removed the cover and made a handle to replace the allen screw.

 

[skronk]

I no longer have the saw, but I removed the cover and made a handle to replace the allen screw.

If you get a minute could you explain how you did that please ?

PM if you wish

 

[martinka]

It was just a small piece of aluminium with a 4mm allen screw through it. There is a locknut at the other side that you can't see and the bolt is also held in with superglue or Loctite or something similar. I also made a new table insert from aluminium so that it was at the correct height, but one made from plywood would do just as well

 

[skronk]

Thanks for that Martin.