I ran-out of GJ 'Edit' privileges today, so I have to post another entry.
WARNING!
The description below is what
I did to correct an incomplete tool parts inventory. Do Not do this tool modification on your own. Return the tool to the point of purchase and get a refund, if you find your saw is missing parts.
Caveat emptor!
I went to the local ACE Hardware and bought two allen flat-head machine screws, 6mm X 1.0 X 25mm to use for fastening the vertical band saw work table in-place. They only had 30mm, so I used my Dremel tool to remove 4 or 5mm. The OEM screws they supply aren't long-enough to secure the vertical band saw work table, I found. They supply you 20mm (listed as 6mm X 20mm on the owner's manual exploded diagram), and I looked in all the envelopes they give you for Bauer, Hercules (both are HFT brands), Milwaukee, and DeWalt portable bandsaws. No machine screws in all those polyethylene envelopes work to properly-secure the vertical work table to the saw body. So, I bought my own or pulled 'em out of my 'traveling work pack-out toolboxes.' Or, on true GJ fashion chuck-up a proper steel alloy 10mm stock, and turn it down for the correct angle to taper the head for installation, then thread it using your Snap-On metric tap and die set. Use the Bridgeport to make an allen head recess, and 'Bob's yer uncle.'
I used the smaller bracket piece below the guide plate (see the lower illustration) which I removed by pushing a button on the guide plate, to line-up the holes in the guide plate so you can see the allen screw heads which hold the guide plate to the saw body. Remove those screws, and the guide plate and a much-smaller steel rectangular bracket will come-off attached to the guide plate. Depress the button, and separate the guide plate and the smaller rectangular bracket below it.
Replace the smaller rectangular steel bracket onto the saw, where it was, and then place the vertical bandsaw work table above it, so the holes line-up with the tapped holes in the saw body which will be used to fasten the work table to the vertically-positioned bandsaw.
This picture above shows the small bracket to be turned over and mounted to the saw frame after the vertical workbench surface (the work table) is placed on top of it. The two Allen screws will hold the workbench (the work table) surface, the small rectangular bracket and the body of the saw fastened together. Ensure that the band saw blade does not rub on the work stand bench surface
This is where I will need the fasteners I bought: allen flat-head machine screws, 6mm X 1.0 X 25mm. Those will be long-enough to reach the narrow captive steel bar's two threaded holes. The narrow captive steel bar with its two threaded holes, seen in the above picture, slides back and forth in a recess in the saw's aluminum body. The work table will rest on-top of the small steel bracket (which was beneath the guide plate which I removed and did-not replace) and
now I will use the 6mm X 25mm allen flat-head tapered screws to secure the work table to the saw. It would be a lot easier to show the process if the *+_*^$#! owner's manual was online, w/its exploded diagram. But it isn't, so here's a description of what I had to do, to attach the vertical band saw work table to the saw. It's inexcusable that they don't provide enough of the proper fasteners to assemble the saw properly. It sounds like a CPSC issue, and I warn you, to approach this knowing that their parts (or lack of parts) do
not allow safe and proper assembly.
Note the guide plate (above) is showing two holes with fasteners in the holes. The small rectangular plate
below or underneath the guide plate (see the red background picture, the right side bracket) will be replaced on the saw, and the vertical band saw work table will go on-top of the small rectangular plate and the two 6mm x 25mm screws (which I had to buy separately) are what hold the work table to the saw. The open cut in the work table will face the saw body. The band saw blade will be spaced so the blade is positioned between the sides of the work table slot, so the blade does not rub against the work table.
The owner's manual I got has an exploded picture of the saw pieces, and an inventory of what's supplied. It also provides instructions to mount different manufacturers' portable band saws into the stand, and how to make adjustments to switch between horizontal band saw operation, and vertical band saw operation.
In an earlier post, I said I had to remove the plastic dust cover for the 'driven' band saw wheel, when I tried to mount the vertical band saw work table. Why? Because without the tool coming with proper assembly hardware, mounting the vertical band saw table to the band saw body resulted in an interference between the bandsaw body and the work table. I had to eliminate the small rectangular plate beneath the guide plate to mount the work table to the band saw when it was set-up vertically. That caused the interference between the work table and the plastic dust cover over the driven wheel. Removing the plastic dust cover allowed the vertical position work table to be fastened in-place with the supplied hardware. However, I had to remove the driven wheel dust cover to fit the table. Once I bought the proper length 6mm X 25mm machine screws, I was able to replace the small rectangular plate beneath the work table using the new screws I bought. That gave me sufficient clearance to re-mount the driven wheel plastic dust cover.
Here's a simple wood bench to hold the stand either way, horizontally or vertically. For the vertical position I fastened it with 1/2" X 3" machine screws through the two factory holes in the base using wing nuts. No tools needed with wing nuts.
I'm going to drill holes in the bench to hold by friction-fit, the allen wrenches the saw and stand require.
Well, that's it. Too-bad the online manual does not provide an exploded diagram and an index of supplied parts. It would make the problem I encountered, and how I solved it, much easier to describe. A picture and 1,000 words, you know.
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