The price is attractive too: $18.50 for the arbor and $15 each for the bearings, making this a very cost effective repair. They would stock parts for machines of this vintage and size. I thought this was fairly impressive, that I contacted Busy Bee and was able to order a new arbor directly from them, and new bearings as well. Since this saw is nearly 30 years old, I wasn’t sure I could get replacement parts for it. I didn’t see this when I first looked the saw over, but I don’t think it would have stopped me from buying it. However, a closer inspection of the saw revealed damaged threads on the arbor: I believe it was rarely used and fairly well looked after. It has no detectable wear on the major mechanical parts (lift and tilt mechanism) and is in very good condition overall. That motor was replaced by the owner a few years ago with the 3/4 HP unit, which was probably adequate for his needs. The saw was made in 1987, model number is B210A that was originally equipped with a 1-1/2 HP motor. That motor alone is worth the price I paid for both saws. It came with the largest 3/4 HP motor I’ve ever seen, a TEFC farm duty unit. The original fence was a pile of junk, but will be replaced by the fence from my homemade table saw. The table top has some minor surface rust and the side tables are not broken. Looking a little rough, but there is tons of potential here. That’s the reasoning behind the new saw build, but before I can begin work on that one, I have to get the Busy Bee finished. The plastic laminate on the sliding table and outfeed table was good quality, but will not stand up to the day-in and day-out wear and tear it will be subjected to on a table saw. While I didn’t use “cheap” material to build the saw, I did try to make it a bit more economically than I should have. Still, I think two slots, one on each side of the blade, is the best arrangement. This turned out to be incorrect, and I did add a right side miter slot to the saw about a year ago to correct this. When I built the saw, I thought this would not be a major concern, but in using it ever since, I can say that it is a bigger problem than IĪlso, I was under the impression (during the original design and build) that the sliding table would make it so that I would not need miter slots on the saw. So, what could be improved on the old saw? First was the tilt axis of the blade – it is about 1/4″ beneath the surface of the table. Still, I’m probably months away from serious work on the main saw.
It was always my intention to build a new saw to replace that one, and the acquisition of the two used saws just brings the start of that project closer. In all honesty, there wasn’t much that was wrong with my homemade saw, but there were a few things that could be improved upon. Since starting in on this, the question has come up: “why build a new saw, what is wrong with your homemade saw?”. After the main saw was built, the Busy Bee would be used as a backup and dedicated dado saw. I would then use the Delta table saw as the core of a new “homemade” table saw, one that would become my main saw. With these in hand, I came up with a basic plan: repair and rebuild the Busy Bee saw so that it could replace my homemade table saw.
When I got there, I had no problem paying the seller the $200 he wanted for both saws. They looked to be fairly decent quality and the asking price was certainly low enough, so I called to have a look. I found the two saws shown here being sold as a set. My intention at that time was to see what was available locally, and not to actually buy anything. The idea was to look for a cheap, used saw and salvage just the arbor from it, and then build a complete table saw around that. During an email exchange with Matthias Wandel concerning homemade table saws, I happened to do a Google search for used table saws in my area. So it happens with the table saw this rebuild article is about. I guess the term for it is serendipity, where you find something that turns out to be very useful when you weren’t really looking for it in the first place. Rebuilding An Old Table Saw Homemade Machines & Jigs
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