I bought a new/old saw yesterday and it was delivered today. It was kind of tough to get the 1000lb. beast off of the skid by myself, but I managed. I've always wanted a Grob and I think this saw should probably last my lifetime and more. It's got a lot of cool features like a blade welder so I can buy blade material in bulk and then weld my own blades. The welder is built in to the unit and even has a little grinder to dress the blades with.
Supposedly the saw can cut almost anything from asbestos sheets (read above- YIKES!) to zinc. It even has a recommended speed for gold, just in case you need to cut an ingot or something. The saw also has this nifty removable catch tray that catches all of the dust that falls off the blade as you cut. It has a storage drawer and it was full of different guide parts for the "do-all" bearing blade guides. I still need to get a vfd that I can hook to it's 3 phase motor so I can run it in my studio, but that shouldn't be too difficult.
Now I just need to sell my old vertical bandsaw that will be replaced by the Grob. Let me know if you're interested.
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I've never used a blade welder before, but I've always been a little bit fascinated by the concept - not so much the action of welding blades, but the idea that the machine has the capacity to 'self-heal' (with human intervention and plenty of blade stock, of course). It's a type of feature that I've only seen on bandsaws - imagine if an endmill grinding fixture was built into every mill, or if tablesaws had the ability to touch up their blades.
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