Help with wire saw

[Longstrider]

Blimey, that old SOE designed job is the very model that introduced me to the usefulness of the design ! My old mentor (Ex-SOE himself ) had one of what was probably the original issue ones and taught me how useful it was when I was a kid. I had ( still have in the shed somewhere?) one of those years ago. I picked it up, already pretty rusty and battered, at a Steam Rally on a stall of junk. I think it cost me 50 pence and it earned it's keep for years.

Anyone know where I could get another? Pretty please?

 

[Longstrider]

Blimey, that old SOE designed job is the very model that introduced me to the usefulness of the design ! My old mentor (Ex-SOE himself ) had one of what was probably the original issue ones and taught me how useful it was when I was a kid. I had ( still have in the shed somewhere?) one of those years ago. I picked it up, already pretty rusty and battered, at a Steam Rally on a stall of junk. I think it cost me 50 pence and it earned it's keep for years.

Anyone know where I could get another? Pretty please?

 

[Pete E]

Is there any reason why you could put one of those pocket chain saw blades into a frame like a bucksaw?

 

[Stuart]

Blimey, that old SOE designed job is the very model that introduced me to the usefulness of the design ! My old mentor (Ex-SOE himself ) had one of what was probably the original issue ones and taught me how useful it was when I was a kid. I had ( still have in the shed somewhere?) one of those years ago. I picked it up, already pretty rusty and battered, at a Steam Rally on a stall of junk. I think it cost me 50 pence and it earned it's keep for years.

Anyone know where I could get another? Pretty please?

Alas I cannot help, I dont know where you would find one anymore, I dont think anyone has manufactured them for quite a while and the were a specialist item even then.

Is there any reason why you could put one of those pocket chain saw blades into a frame like a bucksaw?

you can, but it requires a lot of tension because unlike a bowsaw blade the pocket chainsaw wants to arc when cutting and its not really worth the trouble because the teeth on modern pocket chainsaws are pretty poor. you can safely grab a pocket chainsaw anywhere along the blade and even run your hands down it without any harm (in its new out of the packet condition, you can improve it quite a bit if you take a file to it) unlike the old SOE saw which would draw blood if you grabbed it by the blade (it would make a mess of your pockets though, which is why you need the leather case for it)