Thank you Michel and a Happy and successful New Year. Your series of mini machines is so inventive and instructional that it almost constitutes a full mini workshop. All that is left is to come up with another mini tool to bootstrap the whole thing. Hopefully with just a few off the shelf parts that would otherwise need an existing lathe or mill.
This man creates fantastic tools. I you are not after making money with this channel but still, I’m a bit sad ti see only 7k subscribers when really junk so-called machinning videos get a lot of views. I do own a little shop with home built lathe and mill and I can understand the work and passion put into your builds. Respect!
Totally agree. Apparently many viewers are more charmed by the person than by the work. Real "fans", so to speak. Otherwise I don't understand why a 45 minutes video about drilling a few holes, accompanied by an equally long monotonous babble, gets so many likes from tens of thousands of subscribers. This seems to me to be mainly an U.S.A.!! thing. I suspect that the subscribers to this channel are better able to recognize craftsmanship, dedication and useful information. However, these people are only a small part of the worlds population I suspect, hence the low number of subscribers..
Sir you are quite the ENGINEER, MACHINIST, CRAFTSMAN. thank you for doing this video series, I know it takes a lot longer for you to do a project videoing it.
I have a bandsaw allready, but if i didnt i would def consider this beauty. Any chance that you want to have a go at making a tablesaw? sadly Jim Byrnes passed away so getting hold of a good mini tablesaw is really hard
No, that's not going to happen. I make these machines for my own enjoyment and use. If I were to make them for someone else, I would have to charge a fair fee, but with about 250 hours of work in one machine (which will of course be less the second time, but still a lot) such a machine would be far too expensive.
Is there any possibility of releasing solidworks files or .stp files of both this project and the cutter grinder? I have modifications and having solid models would be helpful. If not, understand. Thank you to both of you for the outstanding project and CAD work. Happy new year
Nice and compact design, love it. The only small changes I would make is to use wheels without tires with a lip to guide the blade and a small dc motor powered rotary blade brush that turns perpendicular to the blade to brush the swarf off.
@@IsZomg Most metal bandsaws these days use wheels with a lip on one side where the back of the blade sits against, that removes the need to worry about metal chips digging into the tires. Tires are fine as long as you brush the swarf off.
I would not recommend using a quality saw band with individually set teeth on wheels without a rubber rim. The teeth will eventually eat into the wheels, just as Michel showed in one of his videos. This is less important for the cheap corrugated saw bands, but as Michel showed, they break much too quickly when using smaller wheel diameters. Furthermore, rubber has the great advantage that slippage does not occur quickly. A motor for wiping the band clean? That seems like a pointless addition to me.
@Andreas-Bauer21 The teeth hang off the edge, unless you want to use blade of different widths you're better off without tires. As I said, it's not a big deal. It's a small change that I would make if I built this. I wouldn't have to worry about changing the tires or chips and coolant affecting it. Cutting forces should be a sufficiently supplied by the tension of the blade, if you have to rely on the tires to prevent slipping your feed rate and rpm is wrong. Rotating blade brushes are pretty common in professional bandsaws, it makes a huge difference to blade lifespan.
@@ryebis I have see quite a few really small bandsaws, but never one with a lip. And I have never seen a band saw with a blade of only 13mm width where the teeth overhang, thus limiting the width of the wheel to only 10mm. Also, almost every small band saw has hard rubber rims around the wheels. Give me a few links to prove me wrong. Perhaps these kinds of features can be found in larger industrial machines, but we are in the wrong category for that. This is a tiny tabletop portable band saw, and I suspect there isn't even room for a blade wiping motor.
Thank you Michel and a Happy and successful New Year.
Your series of mini machines is so inventive and instructional that it almost constitutes a full mini workshop. All that is left is to come up with another mini tool to bootstrap the whole thing. Hopefully with just a few off the shelf parts that would otherwise need an existing lathe or mill.
Awesome little tool, thanks for sharing the process
This man creates fantastic tools. I you are not after making money with this channel but still, I’m a bit sad ti see only 7k subscribers when really junk so-called machinning videos get a lot of views. I do own a little shop with home built lathe and mill and I can understand the work and passion put into your builds. Respect!
Totally agree. Apparently many viewers are more charmed by the person than by the work. Real "fans", so to speak. Otherwise I don't understand why a 45 minutes video about drilling a few holes, accompanied by an equally long monotonous babble, gets so many likes from tens of thousands of subscribers. This seems to me to be mainly an U.S.A.!! thing. I suspect that the subscribers to this channel are better able to recognize craftsmanship, dedication and useful information. However, these people are only a small part of the worlds population I suspect, hence the low number of subscribers..
@leonida-alexandrudiaconu8660 Thank you, appreciate it 🙂
Sir you are quite the ENGINEER, MACHINIST, CRAFTSMAN.
thank you for doing this video series, I know it takes a lot longer for you to do a project videoing it.
I wish I had the space in the shed for another saw like this. Well done 👏
Thanks for sharing Michel !!!!
That would look right at home along side any 70's hifi stereo setup... "That's not a bandsaw, it's my quad reel tape deck"...
Yes, that has been noted before. The resemblance to those beautiful prosumer reel to reels is striking.
Thats a really nice unit, I was considering buying a makita portable bandsaw but Im now thinking that would suit me better. Thank you
fantastic, so much beautiful yyiiii )))
The way around the iPhone/iPad issue is to open (RUclips) in a safari window and then go to the about page.
I have a bandsaw allready, but if i didnt i would def consider this beauty. Any chance that you want to have a go at making a tablesaw? sadly Jim Byrnes passed away so getting hold of a good mini tablesaw is really hard
No, that's not going to happen. I make these machines for my own enjoyment and use. If I were to make them for someone else, I would have to charge a fair fee, but with about 250 hours of work in one machine (which will of course be less the second time, but still a lot) such a machine would be far too expensive.
I didnt mean that you make it for me, i was hoping you would make one for yourself and one of the lovely viewers would create a set of plans for it 😊
And so it happened.. 🙂
Is there any possibility of releasing solidworks files or .stp files of both this project and the cutter grinder? I have modifications and having solid models would be helpful. If not, understand. Thank you to both of you for the outstanding project and CAD work. Happy new year
Unfortunately, that is not for me to decide. I will ask Thomas.
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How can I get the drawings for these tools?
See the "about" section from this channel for my e-mail address to request the free drawings.
How do i request a copy of the plans please?
Send me an e-mail (see the about section of this channel). Do not use an Iphone..
Nice and compact design, love it. The only small changes I would make is to use wheels without tires with a lip to guide the blade and a small dc motor powered rotary blade brush that turns perpendicular to the blade to brush the swarf off.
Wheels with a lip would get busted on the blade teeth no? Commercial bandsaws all use crowned tires.
@@IsZomg Most metal bandsaws these days use wheels with a lip on one side where the back of the blade sits against, that removes the need to worry about metal chips digging into the tires. Tires are fine as long as you brush the swarf off.
I would not recommend using a quality saw band with individually set teeth on wheels without a rubber rim. The teeth will eventually eat into the wheels, just as Michel showed in one of his videos. This is less important for the cheap corrugated saw bands, but as Michel showed, they break much too quickly when using smaller wheel diameters. Furthermore, rubber has the great advantage that slippage does not occur quickly.
A motor for wiping the band clean? That seems like a pointless addition to me.
@Andreas-Bauer21 The teeth hang off the edge, unless you want to use blade of different widths you're better off without tires. As I said, it's not a big deal. It's a small change that I would make if I built this. I wouldn't have to worry about changing the tires or chips and coolant affecting it. Cutting forces should be a sufficiently supplied by the tension of the blade, if you have to rely on the tires to prevent slipping your feed rate and rpm is wrong. Rotating blade brushes are pretty common in professional bandsaws, it makes a huge difference to blade lifespan.
@@ryebis I have see quite a few really small bandsaws, but never one with a lip. And I have never seen a band saw with a blade of only 13mm width where the teeth overhang, thus limiting the width of the wheel to only 10mm. Also, almost every small band saw has hard rubber rims around the wheels. Give me a few links to prove me wrong. Perhaps these kinds of features can be found in larger industrial machines, but we are in the wrong category for that. This is a tiny tabletop portable band saw, and I suspect there isn't even room for a blade wiping motor.