[SML] Band Saws

[Keith Newman]

It is hard to be a steward of the school when they kick your but out the
door.  I am really glad to be back here though.  I had a big hand in
specifying what I wanted at our temporary facility and an even larger hand
in developing requirements and specifications in our soon to be rehabbed
Auditorium and the new shop.

Some good news came about after I was rehired.  My position is not only
safe but it is being expanded.  My program is going to become a full career
tech program that can have students attending it from three school
districts (hopefully, soon to be five).  There is a lot of good that can
come from it.  It is pretty exciting to switch from an after school and
lunch period club activity into curriculum.  There was and is a lot of
teaching and learning going on but the added option of students getting to
spend two, one and a half hour classes per year with me for two years is a
really cool thing that I would have loved as a student.  All of this will
get me full teacher status and a bump in pay.  That takes care of a lot of
supervision concerns for the district and also enables me to directly
supervise students on field trips.  I am hoping to bring a group down to
the USITT Ohio Valley Fall conference this year and maybe the national
conference in a couple more years.

One guy was busted with some things from the school, none of it was from my
department though.  The theft issues hit a few departments very hard.  The
Instrumental department lost all of their guitars for their guitar class.
Insurance covered replacing the microphones and the musical equipment but
none of it should have ever been an issue.  The way the move was conducted
obviously needs to be revisited before we return to our rebuilt building. I
would hope our administrators would be on top of it but quite honestly,
unless our insurance company steps in and looks at the practices
surrounding the move, I doubt anything will change.

Anyhow... Carla, thank you for the suggestion.  The VFD is a great idea.  I
don't anticipate cutting a lot of metal on the band saw but having the
ability to slow down the blade for it may come in handy for the
unanticipated thing that will come up and bite me in the backside if I
don't have it as an option.

Keith

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center via
Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:


> A lot of wonderful old iron can have a new lease on life by adding a
> Variable Frequency Drive.
>
> Many VFDs take single phase input power and output 3-phase. A bonus is
> they can turn a fixed-speed 3-phase motor into variable-speed, so cutting
> wood, plastic, foam or metal is possible by adjusting the blade speed to
> the material.
>
> We got our VFDs from Dealers Electric based on pricing at the time. They
> currently show a 2 horsepower single-phase input, 3-phase output unit for
> $159 plus shipping. I have no connection other than as a satisfied customer.
>
> <http://dealerselectric.com/230V-single-phase-input.asp>
>
> I'm sorry to hear your facility lost all that equipment to a preventable
> theft - that just sucks.
>
> Carla
>
> When you think about how bad your job is, remember that somewhere there's
> a guy in front of a tax office dressed as the Statue of Liberty.
>
>
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