A guided power feed for a Warco bandsaw

Richard T. Smith makes a pneumatic accessory for a vertical bandsaw.

- Richard T. Smit

The lockbolt was next. I turned the end of some 44mm diameter bar down to fit closely in the hole in the saw mounting plate, photo 25. The problem was to make the thread as I still have no idea what it is. My metric dies don’t fit the existing knob, and neither do my

Whitworth, although one came fairly close. Just as I was despairing, I remembered some old dies of my fathers and one of those fitted perfectly. Unfortunately, it’s rusty and the size unreadable. Anyway, I turned the diameter down to match that on the knob and cut the thread and shaped the top of the bolt before parting off, photo 26. After cleaning up the end I mounted it in the mill vice and machined two flats, photo 27.