cobbledstones
spending too much on rocks
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Post by cobbledstones on Apr 15, 2018 12:37:51 GMT -5
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NRG
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by NRG on Apr 15, 2018 22:11:07 GMT -5
Price seems reasonable. Bend Oregon.
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Post by grumpybill on Apr 16, 2018 4:26:46 GMT -5
Not a rock saw. That's a beat-to-hell masonry saw. Tolerances of arbor and table not tight enough to run a thin lapidary blade.
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NRG
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by NRG on Apr 16, 2018 8:50:15 GMT -5
Not a rock saw. That's a beat-to-hell masonry saw. Tolerances of arbor and table not tight enough to run a thin lapidary blade. We run 6 of those at class. Three in an oil cabinet and threw with water for softer stuff
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Post by grumpybill on Apr 16, 2018 10:41:43 GMT -5
We run 6 of those at class. Three in an oil cabinet and threw with water for softer stuff I assume you rigged up vices on the tables and took the play out of the wheels under the tables. And that the arbor bearings are fairly new. Or that the saws haven't seen much use/abuse, which is NOT the case with the saw in the listing. I've run a lot of masonry saws in my day. None as beat up as the one in that listing, but also none that wouldn't have ruined a thin lapidary blade. Unless the saws were fairly new and/or well maintained it was difficult to feed something requiring precision, like structural glazed tile, perfectly straight and square to the blade. Hell, I've had blades bind up and throw a concrete block clear off the table.
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NRG
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since February 2018
Posts: 1,630
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Post by NRG on Apr 16, 2018 11:57:35 GMT -5
Hand fed, tables pop off if not careful. Chinese crimped blades on very one. Blades changed as needed. Not sure how ya ruin one unless the stone is released and the blade sucks it under. That will ruin a blade post haste. Happens about once a year. Aside from that they just cut and cut all night every Tuesday
These are MK Diamond 14" brick saws.
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Post by grumpybill on Apr 16, 2018 12:31:35 GMT -5
NRG , you guys obviously have steadier hands than I have. <laughing> I tend to bind up at least once an hour with the thick blade in my 10" tile saw. I'm sure I'd bend a thin blade in no time.
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Post by catmandewe on Apr 16, 2018 16:27:22 GMT -5
I bought 4 of those at a government auction, they cost me quite a bit more than that though. One has beed outfitted with a gas powered motor and is a cutting beast. Think I am going to do another one like that because it works pretty good.
Tony
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