CaptG
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While visiting my sisters in Colorado a couple months ago, I saw an ad on Craigs list for an 18 inch craftsman bandsaw for $350.00. No picture. When I got to the guys house here is this old band saw, power cord frayed off and gone, wheel tires dried and almosr non-existant, and table just resting loose on saw. Cast iron trunion that holds table was broke and large part was missing. Guy had got saw as partial payment from shop that was going under and owed him for landscape work. I told him not knowing if they even still made parts for this, it was worthless, except maybe a few bucks for scrap. He told me his wife said it better be gone soon, would I give him $75.00? I told him $20.00 and he help me load it. He took it. I brought it back to Michigan and discovered saw was made by Parks Woodworking for Sears & Roebuck before the Craftsman line was started. No parts anywhere, I spent over a month looking hard. So, a friend gave me some left over steel he had at his machine shop and I made a new trunion. Got the table mounted yesterday. I had ordered new urethane tires off ebay for $27.00 and cleaned off the old ones and mounted them, plus a new 3/4 inch blade for $18.00 and a new power cord (used heavy extension cord that I already had) wired to motor. So far I am under $70.00 and when I turned it on yesterday and made my first cut, priceless. This baby purrs. A good fence is next on the list, then eventually I will remove the dents and re-paint with a good epoxy paint. Gotta love that Craigs list.
