DoAll blade status and notice

Space Teams Metal Shop
1

What’s the status of the blade on the vertical band saw?

Also, can we please post here about equipment outages like that? Getting to the shop at 8:30 am and finding no blade there was a shock that threw off my whole day. (The pieces were too small for the clamp on the horizontal band saw, and they were steel, so the aluminum chop saws were a no go. Is there an angle grinder in the metal shop? I didn’t see one, plus the cutting discs would certainly be consumables that I lacked without a trip home anyway.)

2

There is a Makita angle grinder. There was a diamond blade in one of the milk crates on it last time I saw it. You’ll probably want to pick up some cut off wheels. It had a Tool free hand nut on it. That’s the only one I know of. I believe it’s 4 1/2 inch. I may have seen a 7 inch grinder, but I can’t remember.
The blade on the big vertical bandsaw seems very dull. I was not able to cut mild steel on it right well at all. The horizontal bandsaw Cut it like like butter.

3

These are what we have now

https://wiki.asmbly.org/index.php/Handheld_Grinders

There’s also a Ryobi cordless that I didn’t inventory because we’re moving away from the Ryobi battery system.

4

I found one angle grinder with a marginally usable cutting disc when I searched later. There might have been more discs; I didn’t look closely.

I didn’t think to look at the time; instead I did the hour round-trip home and got my own.

In any event, I know the old DoAll blade was terrible; do we have an ETA on a new one?

5

Shouldn’t we just have a roll of bladestock and cut/weld it into a blade as needed?

It has a thingy for that

6

The blade welder has never been used since it has been at the shop. I’m rebuilding the blade sheer.