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My blade hunt


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I spend part of my day searching for more blades all I've been able to find besides pinned blades are Dremmel #7 blades pretty coarse for what I do, now these people are the DeWalt dealer ship as well as the dremmel. So I finally found the manager and asked him if thats all the blades he had and his reply was yes dremmel quit making blades so we can't get anymore. I had the name and number for a Olson distributor in the US but he said he wasn't ordering any more blades as there were still so many pinned type left and thats what the majority of the people that have scroll saws use. I told him mine doesn't it takes pinless so he suggested I buy one of those Dremmel ones that you drive with your dremmel moto tool So my adventure was just that an adventure so I'm going to talk to someone who handles good blades and see if we can get a distributor here in Mexico.

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Hans.. I can't believe your dilemma.  I am sure if you wished to become a distributor of blades their would a manufacturer who would love to accommodate you. I just do not understand what is wrong with the Mexican mail service. Do you have UPS service there? Maybe that is the way you need to go...I feel really bad for you.  I am still willing to buy some blades for you here  and mail them to you, if that would help

 

Dick

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Yes Dick we have ups here but Mike will only ship via first class mail and yes Steve I'm still waiting for that Order from Mike back in December. Dick thank you for the offer but as I said before they never get here by mail I'm still waiting for stuff mailed to me 4 years ago. It just doesn't get here. Courier is the only way and then I would have to order large quantities to make it worthwhile as couriers tend to be expensive.

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Hans, I don't know if it would help, but maybe if you show the store manager what Olson, Flying Dutchman, Advance Machinery, PS Wood, and other blade manufacturers are making the manager may realize that pin-less is the way to go. If that doesn't work, maybe you should be "The" blade distributor in Mexico.

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Its not that easy Dan There are so few people that even know what a scroll saw is, there is the odd one that has a cheap saw that takes pin type Blades they cut things into wood the find like pallets or other scrap material the may find. But nobody that I have found here is into fret sawing. The people here don't spend money on good tools they make most of their tools Like a bend piece of rebar makes a hacksaw etc its unbelieveable at times, I've watched them work with some of those tools or should I say struggle as there is absolutely no way you can produce a decent job with that junk so I usually end up giving them the right tools which then end up on the dash of their truck to never be used only to show off to their  co-workers. So to make a long story short I don't think there would be a market in Scrollsaw blades yet maybe a few years down the road as the economy here is picking up and they finally developed a middle class that spends a bit of money but not yet. That manager was right from a business perspective, they only use pin type so why stock pinless?

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Hans

sounds like a catch 22  big time.

 

If pinned blades are all you can buy in your area, you have to make them work.  Try this...

 

You know that you can make pinned blades pin less if you really need to.  Just put the blade over the top of a vice, open

the vice a little so the pin drops down between the jaws and tap the pin a few times with a hammer and drive it out.  There you have it

a pin less  blade.   This might help you for present.

 

Later

Jack

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Hans

sounds like a catch 22  big time.

 

If pinned blades are all you can buy in your area, you have to make them work.  Try this...

 

You know that you can make pinned blades pin less if you really need to.  Just put the blade over the top of a vice, open

the vice a little so the pin drops down between the jaws and tap the pin a few times with a hammer and drive it out.  There you have it

a pin less  blade.   This might help you for present.

 

Later

Jack

Do pinned blade come in smaller sizes then an 8 or so cause not here

 

Hans, I don't know if it would help, but maybe if you show the store manager what Olson, Flying Dutchman, Advance Machinery, PS Wood, and other blade manufacturers are making the manager may realize that pin-less is the way to go. If that doesn't work, maybe you should be "The" blade distributor in Mexico.

Tried that Dan but there is no way this gringo is going to convince him otherwise I had names and addresses and pictures and everything on my ipod but he just wasn't interested.

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Hey everybody I'm not totally out of blades just spirals I still have some flat blades left thats what I'm using now Once they are gone i'm not going to be a happy camper and will more then likely book a trip north to get me some, just hope it won't come to that. Thank you everybody for your help and comments.

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