You didn't want to do that!

[Steve Maskery]

Today I took delivery of a rather nice saw. It's a big bertha. Two very large and heavy cardboard boxes arrived and I made the mistake of opening them in the dining room. And then assembling everything, in the dining room. And then I tried to wheel it all out the back. Except that my doors are a tad narrower than they ought to be, having been messed about with a bit.

So I have it in the hallway but no further. I can't get to my washing machine, or upstairs, and I can hardly get between my living room and the kitchen. I think I'm going to have to dismantle it a bit to get it out. I can't move.

I feel a bit stupid today.

Edit - I don't know why the photo was on its side, it was the right way up on my computer!

 

[MARK.B.]

Looks like you are spending the night with Big Bertha #-o ,be gentle with her :lol:

 

[gregmcateer]

That's a beaut!

Don't concern yourself about doorways, washing machine, etc. Just start building around Bertha and have a neat hall-based workshop as a 'spare' until the hangar in the garden is complete. And then you can use the spare when your legs get too old to make it outside.

HTH
Greg

 

[Steve Maskery]

Why has it posted as landscape? It's the right way up on my computer!

 

[KevM]

Is your computer the right way up?

 

[Steve Maskery]

No idea what was going on there.

Greg, it is a beaut. Sadly it's only on loan, I'm doing a review for Nick. I only have temporary custody

S

 

[woodfarmer]

Reminds me of a friend who restored/built an old Triumph motorcycle in his little wooden shed

 

[Baldhead]

Years ago I remember someone built a boat in their back garden, they had to hire a crane to lift it over the house!

Set is that the bosch saw that you can adjust the height of the blade, so you can cut housing joints like a radial arm saw?

Baldhead

 

[Steve Maskery]

I believe so, there was a similar facility on my 10SD and I think this has it too. I've not had a chance to take a proper look.

 

[Skeety]

LOL, remember the feeling.

Was assembling the kitchen units when I first moved into a house..... Me being me had over engineered a 900mm corner unit, assembled the unit and used strong stuff to bond it (Gripfill et al) fortunately it was the last unit to be assembled in the living room to be taken into the kitchen..... Ummm, it won't fit through the door, had the doors and all trims off at the time too!

Cue rapid disassembly, fortunately the sticky stuff was still wet ish so managed to take it in 2 sections and the re-assemble!!!

Jon.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

We used to live in a 400 year old cottage with a spiral twist at the bottom last few feet of the stairs. Bought a brand new lovely old pine set of drawers. Got to the bottom of the stairs, would it go round the bend, would it bol- - - -.

Ended up jigsawing it right round the base about 6 inches up from the bottom (where the eye is never drawn to) and took it up and glued it back in situ in the appropriate bedroom.

 

[Mark A]

Haha!

A fortnight ago we moved house (finally) and one of the last things to go was my workbench. It's 70" x 35" and must weigh in excess of 1/4 tonne easily... and turned out it was too big to fit through the garden gate! In the end four of us managed to lift it up onto our shoulders and shuffle through the gate but it was a tight fit even then.

Mark

edited... I'm not Superman

 

[DonJohnson]

Our village hall - Chedzoy, Somerset - had a handicapped person's w.c. added to the toilet area. It obviously had a nice wide door to accommodate the width of a wheelchair. Shame that the doorway into the toilet area was standard size!

As if that was not enough, a trolley was purchased to store and easily move a number of tables from the storeroom into the main hall. The trolley was assembled in the storeroom, but was too wide to get through its doorway! :roll:

 

[MMUK]

Reminds me of a friend who restored/built an old Triumph motorcycle in his little wooden shed

Aha! I friend of my dad's back in the 70's re-built a Norton Commando in his bedroom. He ended up taking the window out and riding it down to the ground on scaffold boards bolted together :lol:

 

[rafezetter]

Set is that the bosch saw that you can adjust the height of the blade, so you can cut housing joints like a radial arm saw?

Baldhead

I have the same facility on mine that was a lot cheaper - it's a simple screw that acts as an arm depth stop.

 

[SteveF]

Set is that the bosch saw that you can adjust the height of the blade, so you can cut housing joints like a radial arm saw?

Baldhead

I have the same facility on mine that was a lot cheaper - it's a simple screw that acts as an arm depth stop.

that is one of 2 features I would like on mine
sadly I couldn't work out how to "bodge" something up to do that
2nd would be to have more than a 45% cut

never consider either option when I bought saw about 20 years ago

Steve

 

[rafezetter]

SteveF - On mine there's simple a bolt that goes through the swing arm on the section before the hinge (the blade side) and it hits part of the main body support on the other side of the hinge.

It's very simple with 2 nuts so one locks the other. If you can't rig that somehow, a thin bit of ply stock added to the fence that the swing arm hits, set to the height you need to stop the blade will suffice.

For a more than 45deg cut - depending on clearance can you not make an angled slope jig so that it offers the wood to the blade at a greater than 45deg angle? Done properly you could get it down to maybe 10deg. Jig @ 45deg (blade vertical = 45deg cut) + whatever minimum angle you can get to with the blade and still cut.

If it's not too thick wood you only need to be able to bring the arm down enough to slice through said wood, not all the way down - On mine I've got a fair bit of clearance from where the blade starts spinning to full depth - I'd guess more than 8 inches.

If it's long wood, make a longer jig support and bolt it to the bed, assuming the mitre bed is bolted down to something else (which in reality it should be).

That's just off the top my head, If you like send me a pic of your mitre saw swing / body assembly and I'll see what I can thunk up