Hydraulic cylinder source?

Try Murphy's industrial supply in El Cajon California. This guy has about a jillion of everything. Just 411 for that place. I have no affilliation with it just refering

I modified a 7x11" Wellsaw 58B using the smallest Prince cylinder that Surplus Center sells. This is a new cylinder, unlikely they're out of stock. I think I paid about $50 for it. The key to this thing is the needle/check valve. I got two back when I was modifying my saw, don't think I'll ever need the other one. It's a Parker item, costs a ton new, email me offline if you are interested in it. It's a check valve/needle valve combo unit, and they work great in series with a shutoff valve. Set needle valve to desired feed rate, cut your part, lift saw just enough to clear, throw shutoff valve (saw stays up), move your part to cut the next one, throw shutoff valve and the saw feeds again.

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If you are in Canada or near the border check out Princess Auto. I think they also have a web site. Don't know if they will ship outside Canada, though.

Wolfgang

Sell your current saw and buy this -

Tried eBay yet? There's a fair amount of stuff out there that's poorly described or misspelled that as a result doesn't get a lot of bids, might be worth your while to look into...

Also, look into some of the weird categories like furniture, or do a general search and keep filtering out the bogus stuff rather just than a "it should be in the correct category" search-- hydraulic parts get used in the wierdest places, and some of it is small lower pressure stuff that's probably just right for a project like this.

Also seems to me that

HTH --Glenn Lyford

rich brenz wrote in news:4ChNf.30$T54.17 @fe07.lga:

in the storage container I'm helping a friend clean out is a medium sized pile of hydraulic cylinders - the one I brought home to try and sell is about 2 feet long with aprox 4 inch diameter (maybe 5?) piston, dual acting - there are some smaller ones, maybe some larger ones - what size do you need?

Bill

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I'm looking for one at least 2x12" (bore/stroke) with an end-face mount (square flange at the end through which the shaft protrudes).

GWE

William B Noble (d> in the storage container I'm helping a friend clean out is a medium

As others have said, the ones most folks were using were surplus and, as with all surplus, they've run out. The ones I bought from Surplus Center were originally from some type of home gym workout equipment, might give you some ideas if you go dumpster diving or Saturday garage sale prowling. I've never seen a home gym setup with hydraulics, but you might be able to find the manufacturer and get spares. At least one cutoff bandsaw I used, I think it was a Greenlee, used a small pneumatic cylinder as a cutting rate controller. Worked as well as the hydraulic ones.

Stan

For driving something or just slowing down the feed, etc?

Slowing down the feed...

Rich

Joe AutoDrill wrote:

Expensive, but awesome... Deschner.

What is so poor about the spring regulated feed? I can see if the feed was way too high or way too low it would be bad for the blade and/or affect the cutting speed, but it seems that there is a pretty wide range of pressure/feed that works "just fine" (or good enough). No?

Just trying to learn, Bob