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A Saw Rescue? - bandit571 - 02-03-2025
This showed up about a year ago...$1 at a Antique Store.....as the Boss seemed to like it...
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With the idea of hanging it up on a wall in the house....and just sat around until the other day..
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When I got the idea to sneak that painted "Thing" down to the shop...and TRY to remove the paint..
Not sure WHAT they had used for paint/primer...
Saw bolts were removed....and shined back up....set the wood handle aside, for now...
80 grit in a palm sander....got things down to almost bare metal....
220 grit followed that up...rust underneath the Primer coat....Paint and primer both were a ROYAL PITA to remove...
1500 grit in the palm sander....shined the (NOW) bare metal up...
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In the process of installing the handle and shiny bolts back onto the saw's plate...spline got pushed down too far up front...
I had done a "Test Drive" before all of this....saw had way too much set..but, was still quite sharp....will try it out on the next Project...
But, for now...
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It can hang around with the Disstons and Jacksons....until called for...(Is there such a thing as too many backsaws?)