Rikon 14" Bandsaw light fixture modification.

Hi Dick,

You just couldn’t leave well enough alone could you. :)

Nice fix for an annoying problem. I may have to consider something like this for my Powermatic. The lamp is on the backside of the saw. While it does stay in place it is placed by the top of the guide post. The light is puts on the table is somewhat diffuse and has to bend around the guide post to shine on the front of the table.

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Looks like it ought to stay put!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Great improvement Dick.

It always irritates me to have to make adjustments, or fixes to the machines we purchase.

It took me several hours to get rid of all the sharp edges on my shaper’s cast iron top. Anywhere you touched would cut you.

But then what do you want for almost two thousand, right?

Lee

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I love making modifications like this. It seems like there can always be a better way. Good job of seeing it here.

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I hated having to keep moving the sagging light all the time.

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Pretty nice Dick….. I have a clamp on reflector light on mine and I don’t like it, it moves around on me too. I’ve been putting up with it for 35 years or so…. it’s like second nature now ha ha ha!

-- Dave Leitem,Butler,Pa.,http://dlcarver.etsy.com

I never had the luxury of a light on my old bandsaw,

but I thought a moving light could a safety hazard.

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A very innovative modification. One has to do it for one’s own comfort. Very nice. Sharad

-- patanjali

Nice. Better than the clamp-on I’m using. I’ll have to do this on my band saw, lathe, milling machine,....

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Thanks Dick – I have some magnetic ones for my bandsaws. I mount them on the front top door. Sometimes this is not the most convenient place as the light head is more in the cut line. I am going to the shop and remount the light this morning.

-- Joel Tille

nice job Dick…..... I have an old clamp on.

Dave

-- Dave Leitem,Butler,Pa.,http://dlcarver.etsy.com

cool, thanks for the tip. not that I have a bandsaw but i can pass it on to the Toologics readers (with a link back to Lumberjocks of course!).

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I got the light, I got the box, I got the time now,

Only thing I haven’t got is the old fashioned moxy to know when and how to modify.

In this case, as in many others, I will be copying you Dick.

Thanks
Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Bob,

I drilled the proper sized hole in the outlet pop outs, because the goose neck, wire connection are smaller.

Then I soldered them so they’d stay put.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Thanks Dick, the devil is in the detials.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Great idea Dick…that has always irritated me about the lights that are included on the Bandsaws. They all seem to be on the wrong side of the saw, casting a shadow from back to front making a cutline harder to see. Good fix.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV