Millwab Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 16 hours ago, BadBob said: I have an older RBI Hawk. Sometime when it breaks a blade the bottom clamp will come out and go flying. I have one now that is AWOL. Bob, I too have an older Hawk w/round barrel bottom clamps. When a blade would break the clamp seemed to always fly to the right side. I got tired of searching the floor for the bottom clamp when a blade broke so I taped a piece of cardboard to the top of the stand on the right side. Now if a blade breaks and the clamp goes flying the cardboard keeps it from leaving the top of the stand. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted February 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 6 minutes ago, Millwab said: Bob, I too have an older Hawk w/round barrel bottom clamps. When a blade would break the clamp seemed to always fly to the right side. I got tired of searching the floor for the bottom clamp when a blade broke so I taped a piece of cardboard to the top of the stand on the right side. Now if a blade breaks and the clamp goes flying the cardboard keeps it from leaving the top of the stand. If you replace this piece the clamps don't go to the floor.. they stay in the saw.. I had the same issue with my older Hawk.. These are made of plastic ( I've heard they have spring steel ones now but not certain they have it for the round clamp style.. My Untra has plastic ones and it gets weak and needs replaced every couple years.. The new BM saw has a spring steel one.. https://stores.bushtonhawkstore.com/barrel-style-blade-holder-clip/ This is really a pretty simple device and one could likely make one from some spring steel.. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 2 hours ago, Scrappile said: What? It got all the way down to the 50°s! 30's to 50's at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted February 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 7 hours ago, OCtoolguy said: 30's to 50's at night. last week we was -4 at night and about 10 - 15 during the day.. this week way warmer.. global warming is happening fast. supposed to be about 60 today and right now almost 40 at 7am. lol.. I have heat in the shop but the walk to work can be terrible if it hasn't been shoveled yet. .. Today with all the snow melting and it's also raining. hopefully I don't get distracted and try fishing in the puddles.. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: last week we was -4 at night and about 10 - 15 during the day.. this week way warmer.. global warming is happening fast. supposed to be about 60 today and right now almost 40 at 7am. lol.. I have heat in the shop but the walk to work can be terrible if it hasn't been shoveled yet. .. Today with all the snow melting and it's also raining. hopefully I don't get distracted and try fishing in the puddles.. The weather is the only reason we stay here. If I lived where you do, everything would be in a heated house. No going out for anything. My shop would be in a heated basement and we would have everything delivered. Even my garage would be heated but I wouldn't drive during the winter because of the salted roads. We lived in a cold place for 6 years. 8500 foot elevation. No thanks. I like warm. My body likes warm. I'm used to being warm. No reason to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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