Photo Index - Walker-Turner Co., Inc. - 16" Band Saw

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Walker-Turner Co., Inc.
Jersey City, NJ; Plainfield, NJ

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Band Saw
Machine Size:	16 inch
Submitted By:	Dave Benavidez

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	16" Band Saw
Date of Manufacturer:	40's
Serial Number:
Last Updated	8/21/2009 12:24:29 PM

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Oh...... good old CL's. I went looking for something else and found this beast in the corner of a dusty shop. It was missing the original base and both tires were gone. He had run it without tires, only using the rims of the wheels.....not good. We managed to get it loaded in my trailer. It had a homemade heavy wooden base with casters. I got into the shop okay with my overhead hoist. This machine was complete except for the wooden base. He furnished loose tires for it and it had the original fence.

I lost control while moving it during the process of restoration. It tilted off the casters and then she went over. It landed on the lifting eye of a old Century 5 HP 220V electric motor that was on the floor. I was sick! It broke a hole in the upper cast iron wheel guard and broke the casting for the upper wheel shaft. I managed to break the total impact of the fall, but not before scraping the skin off my leg and landing on the Century motor. Thank God I have a friend that can weld cast iron. Not an easy task for the average welder. Most welders won't touch it. He did a great job and it went back together like new.

I have learned a hard lesson, and that is to leave the chain hoist attached to heavy machinery when moving anything about. Anyway, this machine was too top heavy with the wooden base underneath. I fashioned a steel base from material I found at scrap yard. I welded a 1" thick plate of steel to an inverted hub and a thinner plate on top of that. Casters were welded to the 1" plate. This base is heavy, heavy, heavy, and is now more evenly balanced with the top half! I replaced the bearings in both wheels and in the lower and upper blade guides. I used automobile Bondo to cover the few blemishes from Joe's great cast iron welding job, sanded and painted it. I found a 1 HP motor for it. It is a great machine for re-saw projects.

Putting new tires on this monster was not easy. I tried boiling, clamps, dowels, pulling, stretching, spitting, $%@*&^, etc.,etc! The only thing that worked was this epiphany I had in the middle of the night. The next day I went into the shop and used the 2 ton overhead chain hoist to stretch and pull the tires over the wheels. I have yet to try cutting a telephone pole in half, but who knows?

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