David Eisan
09-04-2004, 3:19 PM
Just because one cannot have enough Unisaws, I brought another one of mine home last night. It has been in storage where I work for almost a year as I acquired the parts I needed to rebuild it. I have a new Dan Foss mag starter, 3 hp Baldor motor, DeWALT sliding table, General T-Square (Biesemeyer) 50" fence, Delta mobile base and Biesemeyer splitter for it. All just waiting for the tear down, clean up and rebuild.
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/justbroughthome.jpg
In total I have about $1400 CDN (about $1050 USD) into the saw and the new parts. I still have to buy paint, bearings and maybe pay for some machine shop work. I checked the arbour, and it has less than 0.001" of run out, so unless I mangle it when I change the bearings, no machining should have to be done.
This saw is a 50's version, made here in Canada with a cast iron plinth. The front edge of the main table is machined at 90º to the table top, and strait, which is what I needed to install the DeWALT sliding table. My current saw, and most of the Canadian made Unisaws that I have come across have a rough sand cast front edge into which bosses were machined for standoff posts to attach the front and rear rails to. Attaching the DeWALT sliding table to a non-strait front table edge would have been difficult.
This new saw will be come my main saw and I will sell the old one (4HP Leeson) for $1500 CDN when this one is done.
More photo's to follow...
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/justbroughthome.jpg
In total I have about $1400 CDN (about $1050 USD) into the saw and the new parts. I still have to buy paint, bearings and maybe pay for some machine shop work. I checked the arbour, and it has less than 0.001" of run out, so unless I mangle it when I change the bearings, no machining should have to be done.
This saw is a 50's version, made here in Canada with a cast iron plinth. The front edge of the main table is machined at 90º to the table top, and strait, which is what I needed to install the DeWALT sliding table. My current saw, and most of the Canadian made Unisaws that I have come across have a rough sand cast front edge into which bosses were machined for standoff posts to attach the front and rear rails to. Attaching the DeWALT sliding table to a non-strait front table edge would have been difficult.
This new saw will be come my main saw and I will sell the old one (4HP Leeson) for $1500 CDN when this one is done.
More photo's to follow...
David.
Every neighbourhood has one, in mine, I'm him.