Cut-off saw from Skilsaw77

[IntheGroove]

Many years ago (1983) I made a cut-off saw from a Skilsaw 77. I had been doing repair for the local carpenters for some time and I ended up with some spare parts. I had built a bench-mount engine stand for my girlfriends VW Bug. After I did that job I knew I would never do that again. I turned the engine stand into a mount for the Skilsaw. I still use it and it is quick and powerful. I use a 7 1/4 metal cutting blade...

[DIYer]

Thanks IntheGroove! We've added your Cut-Off Saw to our Metalworking category,
as well as to your builder page: IntheGroove's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Cut-Off Saw by IntheGroove

tags: saw

[metric_taper]

These old SkilSaw brand, have real gear oil bathed reduction gears, from an overbuilt motor. I inherited one from my dad, that he got in the early 1950s, from a pawn shop in Lincoln Nebraska. I think he said the price back then for the used one was >$300 (don't think my memory was wrong). It needed a new switch and cord, which I found online from an authorized Skill Tool dealer. Amazingly affordable, and fit in the casting location as it should. But my dad used this for cutting concrete holes in the basement floor, as well concrete crack control joints. I use it for the same. It needs a new seal for the shafts in the gear box, as it needs refilling when used. As I'm old, and procuring new seals, after disassembling something that is working, and 'burns a little oil', seems stupid, so I will leave it alone, as I may never use it again. But I did cut two basalt black granite slabs that I got off FBmarketplace, 4" thick, 2'x3' foot rectangle, polished ultra shiny on one side (formerly the outside of some local bank that went out of biz), in half so I could put them on the different benches, to give a place for sandpaper flattening of stuff.
I'm a hoarder, it's true.