Gingery Books

Kirk Chuckran sent me photos of the power hacksaw he built based on plans from our

book. I think you will agree he has done a great job. Since Kirk has a foundry he was

able to cast many of the parts.

He writes the following about his saw. . .

There are 13 total castings, and no welds. The slides are cast aluminum. The two

halves on one side have a bronze rack from an old load bar cut into four pieces and

imbedded in the castings. On the other side there are four 1/2" bronze plugs fine

threaded and screwed in on each casting. The handle is from an old frying pan, the

arm support is an old industrial mop handle, the motor is from an old cylinder honing

machine I found in the dumpster, the big pulley is from a discarded washing machine

and the small one is from an old AB Dick printing machine. The mahogany top is

from a copier pallet and the brackets for the vise hold downs as well as the angle iron

for the uprights are brackets to hold copiers to pallets. The only parts I purchased are

the clip for the clevis pin, the blade, the steel for the arm, the on/off switch, the 90

degree angle for the flex conduit, the two small pulleys, and the countershaft to

crankshaft belt.

Kirk

Patterns from left to right. . .

The clevis pattern, the slide patterns, the vise

base pattern, the vise jaw pattern and at top

center the handle is the handle pattern for the vise.