[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 63, Issue 18

[Fred Zickrick]

Frosty,
         What is the model number for that machine?  Is it the $1000 unit?

At 11:00 AM 4/9/2009, you wrote:
>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:57:29 -0800
>From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Evolution Rage
>To: <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>,      "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"
>         <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>I'm afraid I've lost faith in anything Sears sells. The
>short story being; they wouldn't honor the guarantee on
>a couple power tools, neither one needing more than
>$5.00 in parts and half an hour's work. I got them back
>vac packed with a note that they were beyond salvage
>and needed replacement. One bench grinder they
>installed a goose neck lamp on and charged for it but
>recommended replacement as unsalvageable!
>
>Anyway, I have a Jet 7" x 12" horizontal vertical band
>saw. Under $1k (just) blades run from $12-40+ depending
>on what you want. It cuts straight, is reasonably quiet
>and it's the only power tool I'll turn on, set to work
>and walk away from to do something else. The worst that
>can happen if something goes wrong is a broken blade.
>Well, maybe if you run your fingers into the blade but
>even then it won't do the damage something like a skill
>saw will.
>
>I have a hot saw (composition blade chop saw) but I
>don't use it on anything but really thin tubing and
>even then I'm more likely to set the feed to barely
>moving and use the band saw.
>
>It's one of the most used tools in my shop.
>
>Frosty
>-------------------------------
>If it ain't forged
>it ain't real.
>Wrought iron is.
>The FrostWorks
>
>Meadow Lakes, AK.

Thank you,
Fred Zickrick, fredz72 at cableone.net