Coiling a bandsaw blade

[Newbie_Neil]

Look here for the frame by frame version.

Cheers
Neil

 

[Scrit]

OK, now let's see him do it with a 5 metre long x 25mm wide TCT blade like I use for resawing........... :lol:

Nice to see avvideao. Good post!

Scrit

 

[Blister]

So when do they show you him picking up his fingers :shock:

 

[JFC]

Good post but if you get it wrong :shock:
I was taught to use my foot and do it but i can never remember how Blunt blades are better anyway 8-[

 

[andys wood shed]

I bet Paul Daniels could make three separate rings :lol: :lol: :lol:

Andy

 

[Rod]

It was never that easy when i had to coil the blades from the bandsaw i used to cut 500 mm blocks of D2 on ,of course they were a lot easier to coil after they had snapped

 

[engineer one]

interesting that all these guys need a metal work vice to do their work :twisted: :lol: :roll:

paul :wink:

 

[NickWelford]

I wouldn't try that without gloves on!

 

[Colin C]

For me it was one of the first jobs I learned to do when I first started working
and I have never forgot how to but I must be lucky as I have not cut myself on one yet ( famous last words :roll: )

I am still surprised that it is one of the things I dont forget :shock:

 

[aesmith]

We had to do that when I worked at Halfords, coiling bicycle tyres. We weren't supposed to let customers coil their own purchase, 'cos they'd do it wrong and kink the tyre.

 

[aldel]

Coiling the blade is the easy bit although I much prefer the blade under the foot method. Undoing and releasing an already coiled blade............ now that is a dangerous process.

I don gloves, find a safe open space, cringe and throw!

How do you do it?

aldel :shock:

 

[Scrums]

.....same here, then promise that next time I'll do it without cutting myself.

Must change a blade tomorrow - I'll brag here if there's not claret everywhere.

Chris.

 

[Colin C]

I hold the blade when I open them and have not cut myself yet

 

[dickm]

Look here for the frame by frame version.
Cheers
Neil

Are you sure that guy in the pic is folding a bandsaw blade, and isn't a dowser who has just found water ?

 

[Anonymous]

I agree that uncoiling new blades is stressful enough and also use the 'chuck it on the floor' method. Mine always seem to uncoil themselves inside out, though!

Why would anyone but a bandsaw blade maker want to coil them up anyway?

Doesn't everyone just hang them up on a big hook?

Brad

 

[Scrit]

I agree that uncoiling new blades is stressful enough and also use the 'chuck it on the floor' method. Mine always seem to uncoil themselves inside out, though!

It's you, you've obviously got the left handed bandsaw! :wink:

Scrit

 

[scooby]

Thats a job I've never done, even though I spent quite a large amount of time in the workshop when I was an apprentice. The foreman there, used to coil the blade partially and then just drop it on the floor. I never viewed an uncoiling as I was either:

A) Brewing up or
B) Cowering behind a bench

To be honest, the bandsaw was the machine I enjoyed using most. It was a pretty big (say around 7-8ft tall) old Wadkin model. Footbrake didn't work but apart from that it was great.

The enjoyment slightly detracted when I suffered my first blade snap whilst using it :shock: Quite frightening at the time, as it also wiped the bulb in the lamp out too.

 

[Jake]

Doesn't everyone just hang them up on a big hook?

Your bandsaw size:workshop size ratio is clearly far too small.

 

[Lee Brubaker]

Well Brad....the first time you ruin a resaw blade by simply hanging it on a peg on the wall then you too will recoil blades, attach them to the cardboard backing that they came with THEN hang them on a peg on the wall.

Lee

 

[David C]

There is a simpler way of coiling smallish blades. Works for mine which is about 150".

Stand up with toes gently securing blade to wooden floor.

Hold top of loop with hand suspended above blade, having first rotated hand 180 degrees to left. (Anticlockwise)

Apply one full turn of the hand, clockwise, while lowering hand to floor level.

The three coils will appear.

David