Justin Stanley
08-21-2016, 5:56 PM
A little back story here:
My girlfriend and I are taking possession of a house out in the country in a few weeks. There is already an out building that the previous owner ran a few different small businesses out of. I plan on turning that outbuilding into my shop, eventually we'll build a new garage/shop for additional car and whatnot storage.
I went to highschool with a friend of mine, and he and his dad own a saw mill. They are the trustees for a pretty decent sized piece of timber and so they only take out dead trees and run them through the saw mill. Rare for this area, this timber they manage is old growth. While I don't have an eye for the quality of lumber, others have told me that the wood from there is pretty great; straight tight grain, etc. So for very little money, I can get wood from these guys, and its high quality and has sentimental value to me.
I've been looking on craigslist, ebay, and local classifieds for a decent beginner shop. I want a table saw, a surface planer, a router table/shaper, and a miter saw. While looking I came across a Moak Table saw about 200 miles from me for 350$. It requires 220/440 3 phase (shouldn't be an issue, I can get a phase converter or have an electrician come out) and has a 5 hp motor. It ran the last time the current owner had it set up, about 3 years ago. He's an older guy, so it is difficult getting him to take decent pictures as its in storage right now. He couldn't find a model number but found a serial number: 9605. He said he thinks it took a 16" blade (which would be awesome as I could just get in big beam sized pieces from my friend).
I am having a heck of a time finding any more information though. Seems Moak went out of business back in 1992 but made good industrial strength equipment. From the pictures i can see that the blade tilts and raises/lowers. I can't find out much past that. (Serial number for the saw is 9605, for the motor its 67235AWG1)
How do I find out what size arbor this saw has? Can i use a dato stack in it? If its made for a 16" blade, is there a danger in running a 10" blade? Is it possible to replace the arbor (if it is 1") with the standard 5/8ths ? What am I looking at for maintenance on this? If i need to replace bearings can i just have generic bearings pressed in? Is it possible to get a riving knife set up for this saw?
While I think it would be worth owning, even if I could only use it to break down big pieces of wood, though it would be awful nice if it had other uses. Can anyone help point me in the right direction on finding information on this saw? I pretty much just will be using it for breaking down large piece of wood, and making tables, chairs and things like that. Nothing fancy.
My girlfriend and I are taking possession of a house out in the country in a few weeks. There is already an out building that the previous owner ran a few different small businesses out of. I plan on turning that outbuilding into my shop, eventually we'll build a new garage/shop for additional car and whatnot storage.
I went to highschool with a friend of mine, and he and his dad own a saw mill. They are the trustees for a pretty decent sized piece of timber and so they only take out dead trees and run them through the saw mill. Rare for this area, this timber they manage is old growth. While I don't have an eye for the quality of lumber, others have told me that the wood from there is pretty great; straight tight grain, etc. So for very little money, I can get wood from these guys, and its high quality and has sentimental value to me.
I've been looking on craigslist, ebay, and local classifieds for a decent beginner shop. I want a table saw, a surface planer, a router table/shaper, and a miter saw. While looking I came across a Moak Table saw about 200 miles from me for 350$. It requires 220/440 3 phase (shouldn't be an issue, I can get a phase converter or have an electrician come out) and has a 5 hp motor. It ran the last time the current owner had it set up, about 3 years ago. He's an older guy, so it is difficult getting him to take decent pictures as its in storage right now. He couldn't find a model number but found a serial number: 9605. He said he thinks it took a 16" blade (which would be awesome as I could just get in big beam sized pieces from my friend).
I am having a heck of a time finding any more information though. Seems Moak went out of business back in 1992 but made good industrial strength equipment. From the pictures i can see that the blade tilts and raises/lowers. I can't find out much past that. (Serial number for the saw is 9605, for the motor its 67235AWG1)
How do I find out what size arbor this saw has? Can i use a dato stack in it? If its made for a 16" blade, is there a danger in running a 10" blade? Is it possible to replace the arbor (if it is 1") with the standard 5/8ths ? What am I looking at for maintenance on this? If i need to replace bearings can i just have generic bearings pressed in? Is it possible to get a riving knife set up for this saw?
While I think it would be worth owning, even if I could only use it to break down big pieces of wood, though it would be awful nice if it had other uses. Can anyone help point me in the right direction on finding information on this saw? I pretty much just will be using it for breaking down large piece of wood, and making tables, chairs and things like that. Nothing fancy.