robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Sept 26, 2013 7:34:40 GMT -5
If you go to this site and scroll down to the M4 you will notice the front leg has 2 holes in it. Any idea why? My 18" HP also has these holes. Even Tim doesn't know what they are for and has never seen anything attached to them. I had various ideas, such as a screwup someone punched a bunch of holes for the motor mount rod in the wrong place and they used them anyhow, or perhaps a design change in which the belt tensioner was going to come off the front leg (like the Frantoms come off the rear) and they couldn't get the location right thus 2 holes and then went with doing it off the tank. Hard telling but the thing I don't like about the theories is that so many saws have these?? Maybe some kid was just given the job of cutting legs and making holes and made like 1000 of them who knows? Ok.........so just one of those not so important weird things that I think about: cigarboxrock.com/equipment.htm
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2013 8:19:08 GMT -5
If I understand correctly which holes you are talking about, they are used for the belt tension-er on both my 18 and 24. I assume that they made all the legs the same not knowing what model they would go on.
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Post by johnjsgems on Sept 26, 2013 9:55:31 GMT -5
I always guessed it was so you could reposition the tensioner when using different pulley sizes. Tried it on my HP 24 and it didn't work. Are the back legs drilled the same? If so they possibly just had all the legs drilled the same.
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riverbendlapidary
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Post by riverbendlapidary on Sept 26, 2013 13:21:46 GMT -5
probably used to bolt a 2x4 to the legs for crating.
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Sept 26, 2013 16:30:29 GMT -5
All good possibilities, probably was used for both tension bar and crating. Don't ask me why i'm wondering lol just one of those things. I can think of more interesting questions about companies that are no longer around but no so much in lapidary.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2013 18:05:50 GMT -5
or, they mis-drilled a large batch so they turned the legs around and re-drilled from the other end.
In the reptile biz a mistake like that once became a required feature of a product. Made the end product more versatile to the end user!
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