Well, not on purpose....
About 15 years ago I was cutting something fairly large with my
relatively new Grizzly horizontal/vertical bandsaw (with a Chinese motor
with no thermal overload, not to put too fine a point on things....)
This is the kind of saw that Horrible Freight and everyone else in the
world sells now, and most of us have one in the shop. Anyway, it's
supposed to trip the manual on/off toggle switch when the cut completes
and the blade housing drops down and switches it off. But this time it
didn't. I set it up to cut, walked away from it and apparently forgot
about it, because when I came back out to the shop the next morning the
garage and shop were filled with the most horrible burned motor stink
you can imagine. The saw kept running until it overheated, buned out
the windings and apparently went to ground because the breaker was
tripped. So much for "continuous duty" I suppose. I subsequently
replaced the motor with an ODP from Horrible Freight (for about $25
bucks) and it's been working fine since.
Jeff Scarbrough wrote:
> It's not likely that you will let your band saw run unattended, anyway.
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