After you break a blade - Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Message Board

kraig · 03-30-2009, 04:34 PM

After you break a blade do you try and run the new blade back through where you left off or do you have to go back to the enterance hole. I am having trouble getting it back through where I left off. I have a hawk 220. Thanks for any help. Kraig

guitarman · 03-30-2009, 05:02 PM

Hi Kraig, When that happens, I usually go back into the original hole but I go in the opposite direction from where I started. Works in most cases. Others may have other ideas. Welcome to the forum. David

Mick Walker · 03-30-2009, 07:43 PM

Kraig, it is usually easier to go back where you started. Just stop breaking blades.

Makes you jump doesn't it?

rjr · 03-30-2009, 08:14 PM

kraig
I usually go right back where the blade broke, with a little patients the blade usually goes right back in the cut area.

Sandy Oaks · 03-30-2009, 09:38 PM

Hi Kraig,

If it is an inside fret cut (which is most of the time), I do like David and start back at the pilot hole and go in the opposite direction. If it is an outside cut, I start at the edge nearest the break.

Okie_Arkie_Wood_Cutter · 03-30-2009, 11:00 PM

I find that lose a lot of cutting time by trying to start at the point of breakage instead of going back to the starter hole. If I'm in the middle of a very narrow and fragile cute, turn the blade backwards to move the blade back to the point of breakage and then just spin then spin around the new blade and scroll on.

groverd · 03-31-2009, 01:32 AM

When it is possible i drill a entry hole near the break point. . .

utbva · 03-31-2009, 02:30 AM

Usually after I break a blade I jump back a couple of feet

. Then when my heart slows down I will go in from where I started if it is close to where the blade broke or I will start where I would have finished that piece and just cut to where the break was whether it is a puzzle piece or a cutout.

SNAPPER · 03-31-2009, 06:22 AM

I have not broke a blade since getting a Dewalt scroll saw. If close to the entry hole I will rethread there, if a ways into the cut I will try rethreading where it broke.
Dean

kraig · 04-03-2009, 02:58 PM

Thank you for all the good advice. Kraig

03-30-2009, 04:34 PM	#1
kraig Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Salem, Or Posts: 18	After you break a blade After you break a blade do you try and run the new blade back through where you left off or do you have to go back to the enterance hole. I am having trouble getting it back through where I left off. I have a hawk 220. Thanks for any help. Kraig

03-30-2009, 05:02 PM	#2
guitarman Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lewisville, N.C. Posts: 941	Hi Kraig, When that happens, I usually go back into the original hole but I go in the opposite direction from where I started. Works in most cases. Others may have other ideas. Welcome to the forum. David __________________ ole' yellar and me are great friends

03-30-2009, 07:43 PM	#3
Mick Walker Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Janesville, WI Posts: 1,491	Kraig, it is usually easier to go back where you started. Just stop breaking blades. Makes you jump doesn't it? __________________ Mick, - Delta P-20 The future ain't what it used to be.

03-30-2009, 08:14 PM	#4
rjr Support Our Troops Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 369	kraig I usually go right back where the blade broke, with a little patients the blade usually goes right back in the cut area. __________________ Ron

03-30-2009, 09:38 PM	#5
Sandy Oaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,244	Hi Kraig, If it is an inside fret cut (which is most of the time), I do like David and start back at the pilot hole and go in the opposite direction. If it is an outside cut, I start at the edge nearest the break. __________________ Denny www.sandyoaksonline.com

03-30-2009, 11:00 PM	#6
Okie_Arkie_Wood_Cutter Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: SouthWest Arkansas Posts: 515	I find that lose a lot of cutting time by trying to start at the point of breakage instead of going back to the starter hole. If I'm in the middle of a very narrow and fragile cute, turn the blade backwards to move the blade back to the point of breakage and then just spin then spin around the new blade and scroll on. __________________ You can take the boy out of the hill country, but you can not take the hill country out of the boy. Okie's Cuttings and Patterns http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb24/okiearkie/ darrell, the okiearkie

03-31-2009, 01:32 AM	#7
groverd Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: washington state Posts: 451	When it is possible i drill a entry hole near the break point. . . __________________ Grover D RBI Hawk 226 and Dewalt 788 http://groverd.myphotoalbum.com/albums.php

03-31-2009, 02:30 AM	#8
utbva Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Centerville, Utah Posts: 832	Usually after I break a blade I jump back a couple of feet. Then when my heart slows down I will go in from where I started if it is close to where the blade broke or I will start where I would have finished that piece and just cut to where the break was whether it is a puzzle piece or a cutout. __________________ Bill I have an RBI Hawk 220-3 VS

03-31-2009, 06:22 AM	#9
SNAPPER Dino Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Fergus Falls,MN Posts: 814	I have not broke a blade since getting a Dewalt scroll saw. If close to the entry hole I will rethread there, if a ways into the cut I will try rethreading where it broke. Dean

04-03-2009, 02:58 PM	#10
kraig Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Salem, Or Posts: 18	Thanks for the reply Thank you for all the good advice. Kraig

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