[TheForge] Bandsaw welder

[doveknives at aol.com]

I have read the tread on band saw welding.  I have a machine made by Do-all.  I had it for a long time with out making it work , one day a friend came by and saw the machine commenting that he had one that worked great and offered to show me how.  You all have the basics down, but, I notice that the problem that I had is the same as I had.  I didn't know that the long red(on my machine) in the center of the machine just below the saw clamps, and once I had the butt ends of  of the saw blade butted up against each other and square, you depress the long red handle which presses the blade ends together and applies the electricity which is much higher current than the power allows more current through than the black "anneal" button.  Once the ends are welded you move the blade out to so the teeth are just out of the clamps and anneal. Next you have to grind the welds down, that's what the wheel is for, use the top of the wheel to grind the inside of the blade and the open side of the bottom of the wheel to grind the outside of the blade.  Right above the grinding wheel there is a funny little block with a slot in it.  This is for passing the weld through to verify that you have ground off enough to let the blade pass through the guide rollers.  Then it is back to the anneal stage to draw a temper color to sky blue.  When done this way I have not had blades break.  BTW my friend worked for Do-All welding their blades for them.  THe only problem I had to work with was setting the temp knob to the right setting for the 1/2" blades that I use.  Now I have a pencil line drawn at the places to most effectively weld 1/2" as well as 1/4".  Practice a little with old blades to get the hang of it before using new blade stock.  Feel free to contact me if I can help. 
 
Trusting HIM,
Steve Rollert
keenedgeknives.com
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