Startrite Spares 2 (update)

[Apple Bob]

Hi and thanks again to all who helped out with Startrite contacts.
The good news is that the casting I need is available , the bad news is the price, apparently it is specially made now in small batchs and therefore costs about £200 plus VAT & carriage
I am off to look at the bits again, unless anyone knows of a secondhand rip-fence???
A bientôt...

 

[wrightclan]

the bad news is the price, apparently it is specially made now in small batchs and therefore costs about £200 plus VAT & carriage

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Hi Bob,

For that around that price (when you add in the VAT and carriage from Startrite) You could buy one of these: http://www.rutlands.co.uk/cgi-bin/psProdDet.cgi/HTC950

It is a Biessemeyer clone, and would extend your ripping capacity by quite a lot. I have a Startrite saw, but don't have the fence. I have the original Startrite fence, and will be replacing it someday with a Biessemeyer clone, made by my Dad (when he finds one of those round tuits.)


Not sure what you mean by the casting--do you mean one of the fence rails?

Brad

 

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[Apple Bob]

My thanks to Mr. Grimsdale for the brazing suggestion; the situation is that that the bits are en route (always bearing in mind I have to send them from France, by the lo-cost slow boat) to a specialist engineer in Leicester, (recommended by a friend who is ex Wadkin)........ I am hoping that the three princible bits will be welded (or possibly brazed) back together for a fraction of the cost of the new bit. Apparently I am fortunate that it has broken cleanly!!