Scroll saw wrench

[Tammi201]

I was having a hard time getting the knobs tight enough to hold the saw blade.  My husband made me a wrench and it works great. I can change my own blades.  I wanted to share with you and post a picture.

[OzarkSawdust]

Cool! I've seen patterns of a knob end that fits on the knob itself...like the hand end of yours. But never saw it with a shaft. Yea...sometimes it's hard to break it loose.

[OCtoolguy]

Tammi, it sounds to me as though you might be over tightening your clamps screws. Be careful or you'll be stripping out the threads sooner than necessary. If you find that happens, switch over to the Pegas clamps. Much easier to get them tight. 

[tgiro]

Tammi, what kind of saw are you using? As Ray said, you could damage your clamps by over tightening. If you are using an Excalibur, you can, literally, spread the bottom clamp by over tightening.  You'll be blowing $35 on a new bottom clamp set. Been there - done that.

 

[Tammi201]

Thanks, I’m just slightly tighten them , a little more then I can do with my fingers. I have King scroll saw.  I don’t have a lot of strength in my hands. Hubby has informed me and showed me how much to tighten.

[NC Scroller]

Sounds like you would be better served with putting the Pegas clamps on your King.  As others said there is a real danger of damaging your saw clamps with using tools and gadgets like that to tighten them.  

[OzarkSawdust]

I talked to Denny the other day about Pegas clamps for my King. He was out sick for a couple of days...but going to get me some this week. 

[trackman]

I will say he did a very nice job of making the tool!

[Rolf]

Hubby is a talented guy. You should keep him.

[tgiro]

13 hours ago, Tammi201 said:

Thanks, I’m just slightly tighten them , a little more then I can do with my fingers. I have King scroll saw.  I don’t have a lot of strength in my hands. Hubby has informed me and showed me how much to tighten.

I've seen the King saw at woodcraft and it has the same OEM clamps as the Excaliburs. The bottom clamp is made of cast aluminum. Over-tightening will literally spread the clamp, making it so the thumb and set screws won't tighten on the blade correctly. I was/am a constant violator of this and, always, kept a spare bottom clamp on hand to swap out when the problem arose.

I second the recommendations to swap the OEM clamps out for the Pegas clamps. The Pegas clamps are made from a much stronger aluminum alloy and I have not had the problem since I switched. Denny Knappen, currently has the Pegas clamps on sale.

[oldhudson]

Looks a lot nicer than the one I made. Another possible assist may be to put a light coat of anti-size gel on the threads. That seemed to help my issue.