Looking to add a treadmill motor to a JD Wallace vintage bandsaw.

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Have fun and hope you keep us posted jere. I love saving worthwhile machines like what you are doing put back in service.

I totally feel your pain about finding(and getting rid of good scrap). Where I used to live there was never a problem, new or used. But now it seems I wasn't paying attention or its been a while and things have changed here. I had a bunch of steel that were old homemade jigs and work stations that I didn't need anymore and was surprised my junkyard dog brother wanted them in the worst way. He says where he lives there is no scrap and the price of new has gone through the roof. He was happy to get my 400lbs of old heavy metal.

But now I'm faced with trying to get rid of the base frame of that big gym treadmill frame. It's outrageous.....all heavy duty aluminum! Heavy extrusion frame rails 10' long with 1x4 .250 thick channel crossmembers and uprights along with heavy plate all tig welded. And ALL of its aluminum and I can't find anybody who will even take it! The only place is the recycle at the landfill that I'll have to pay to give it to them. So I guess I'll just cut it up into big enough pieces to fit in my recycle bin as thats apparently ok. What's up with that?