Newbie from southeast Michigan

**jmarkwolf** · Feb 16, 2015, 11:41 AM

Love the website and all the ingenuity.

**kbalch** · Feb 16, 2015, 12:00 PM

Hi jmarkwolf,

Welcome!

There's really no end to the applied ingenuity of the human mind. I've always appreciated elegant solutions to specific problems. What are you working to solve at the moment?

When you're ready to share some of your own homemade tools, we'd love to see them. Please post them directly in the Homemade Tools subforum. We'll add each one to the database, as well as to your builder page on the site.

Non-tool items should be shared in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum.

Ken

**jmarkwolf** · Feb 16, 2015, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by kbalch

Hi jmarkwolf,

Welcome!

What are you working to solve at the moment?

Ken

Hi Ken

Looking for details as to how to add hydraulic downfeed to a horizontal bandsaw. I just bought a Harbor Freight 4x6 saw and want to "gussie it up" a bit. The Craftsman Commercial saw my dad had when I was growing up had one, and it worked great.

I've seen some links for such a project but am really looking more for a "bolt-on" solution. Don't have any background on hydraulics for "home-brewing" this one.

**kbalch** · Feb 16, 2015, 02:56 PM

Well, it's not hydraulic, but have you seen this:

Homemade Friction Rod Downfeed

If nothing else, it might begin to give you some alternative ideas…

Ken