1930s Rotary Jigsaw (Cutawl) [Restoration]
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2017
- This rotary jigsaw was also known as the Cutawl (Model K8). Based on the age of the motor and the history of patents on this machine, I believe it was made sometime in the 1930s. It had many other cutters available for cutting materials such as metal, wood, leather, fabric, drywall, and essentially anything else that is up to 1.25" thick and softer than hardened steel.
This restoration was a lengthly process as the motor needed work as well. I am stunned this motor eventually ran so well. There is zero play in any direction other than back and forth when I move the armature. For a motor that is ~85 years old, I was very surprised to see the bronze bushings having essentially no wear. It's possible they were replaced at one point.
After doing research on this tool and talking with some collectors and experts, I learned that there were certain parts that were fragile and prone to damage. The large wheel in the back is attached to the main shaft by a pin that does not go through the centre of the shaft, but is offset. This means that over time, the offset pin allowed the wheel to wear around the shaft and starting wobbling itself to the point of bending/breaking the shaft. I chose not to risk it and left the wheel as is.
While looking at a parts diagram of this tool, I decided it was too risky to try and hammer and pry off the rotary mechanism as it's filled with small steel balls and retainer rings. These two things are my enemies. All I do is loose them. The part works completely fine, so there is no reason to mess with it.
I could actually see myself using this tool for some applications. It has a very natural feel to controlling the direction of cut and I feel like I could be more accurate with this than a modern jigsaw.
Hopefully you get a chance to try one of these out one day!
Here is a link to all the materials the tool can cut: imgur.com/a/RDysJ
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‘Oil Reservoir’? Man, ‘goodbye’ sounds so much fancier in French. :)
I see what you did there
Wow. I was highly impressed with your idea of remaking the hand knobs with Bondo. Excellent method- I doubt I would have thought of it myself. I was thinking you would laminate circles of black plastic and cut them down with a ball cutter on the lathe and then insert the brash thread boss with epoxy in an oversized hole. I actually stopped the video when you smashed the old ball and began trying to think up how I would have replaced it. I even thought of using billiard balls! Your method was simple, direct tough and worked out quite nicely.
I make small movie props for movie productions and am surprised I did not think of using the Bondo trick. Very entertaining and instructive.
However, I believe I would have turned and polished the commutator on the armature. I would have also shaped the brush contact ends. But, that turned out not to be overly important. You did, after all, break-in the brushes and the motor ran just fine. Also, I would have likely used lithium grease rather than Preparation-H, a vaseline based, low temp lube.
But, holy crap- look at your results. Fantastic. Excellent rebuild. Congratulations on a job very well done.
Billiard balls is actually a great idea. He definitely make this look easy lol.
Wow, I have one of these, it was my Grandfathers, then my Fathers, now mine, its in great shape as we take great care of all our tools!! Very nice restore!!
What made the cutawl special was that the blade could rotate in 360* With the chisel blade, a lot of lexan material could be cut (even the middle of the letters) w/o picking up a drill.
Inside corners could be cut TIGHT.
I trust an old farts recollection better than a manual
I noticed that - and now I want one...
Yeah, much more flexible than the current “fixed forward” jigsaws!
In a world of throw away stuff it is a pleasure to see these items brought back to life. Just shows the craftsmanship that went into them. A little TLC and they still work.
These videos are so fun to watch. Great job!
Thanks! They are fun to make.
yes
Hand Tool Rescue great job keep it up proud of you
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I have a Cutawl K-11 in the shop, I use it to cut gaskets with a circle cutter attachment. They're great tools. Great restoration!
I think you did an amazing job, and that's a wonderful tool with the blade rotation rather than rotating the body of the tool! The only thing I wished you'd done was run a ground wire to the base plate (inside the switch box). With all that metal, a ground is really a good idea. Thanks for doing this one!
I bought one to rebuild. Planning on adding a ground.
I have to admit, using bondo to make new knobs was a fantastic idea - Kudo's to you
Yah, blew my mind. I"m gonna rewatch this with my kids just for that moment.
Really liked the body filler knob. It was a simple solution instead of a "over worked clear epoxy/wood with a real scorpion in it" knob. Great video!
Plastic... I have been think to comment about this ... To be plastic free he had to make knob whit wood...
Look if you know where to get an epoxy handle with a scorpion in it.... I need links is all i'm saying....
@@DasShaten first one must catch a scorpion. Then the journey may begin....
If I had not seen it with my own 2 eyes, I would not have believed how you fashioned that ball. Amazing. Thanks for another great video!
Incredibly satisfying and relaxing watching someone restore
Thanks for not putting some free crap background music on, it is much nicer to watch a video without that constant audio harassment.
You mean you don't listen to royalty-free youtube music for fun?
VHflyboy hahahha
ditto!
Agree
You don't like Kevin Macleod - Scheming Weasel? It's on a whole lot of videos as background music.
And I thought lighting on power tools were a relatively new thing. Learned something new today! Thank you! BTW that jigsaw is amazing. Why don't they have something like that today?
Because no-one cares these days, the buyer doesn't care if he gets crap items so the manufacturer doesn't care about churning out utter shite, no quality control anywhere these days, sad but very very true.
The nice thing about old tools and objects was they were made to be taken apart and repaired.
I allways wanted a sewing machine that could cut wood
amazing stuff buddy
Another beautiful tool brought back to life. Awesome!
Hai
NOT beautiful
If your profile pic is of you, you look like a serial killer
Very nice restoration! One thing I would have liked to have seen is the use of braided cloth covered wire instead of the lamp cord, but all in all very nice!
When you smashed that ball with the hammer, I almost spit coffee all over my monitor. That was not just a surprise, but hilarious as well. Love your channel. Thank you for the content!
That is really splendid how you restored that rotary jigsaw to working order. You got it looking a lot better as well. Great work.
The best 23 minutes on UA-cam
I wouldn't have given that thing a second look in the trash. If I had it after you restored it I would never let it go.
Now there is a tool that I'd probably use several times on just about every project I get into. Really a clever, unique and useful tool for detail cutting. Well Done.
I think it’s amazing how you don’t forget how to put it back together. Good job
The video...
Well done mate, we need more people like you in this world!
Every single time you getting better and better love it thanks bro great job keep it up!!!
Thank you! This one took a lot of work.
PrepH?
shark's liver oil
Lol I was just watching waterjet cutting when they had a prewar mechanical press can you fix that😀
G o
I love watching these old tools have their souls restored.
Love it. Great example of a restoration. Especially liked the bondo Knobs. 👍
Was falling asleep to this video and the "fragile alert" about killed me!
+Cloudslinger You have no idea how much pleasure comments like this give me.
I had same problem lol greetings from Belgium
almost died lol
I have mini stroke
ritorna a dormire tanto quello sai fare
Somehow I had missed this fantastic restoration! There is so much good here, in the history, the technical aspect, and you are telling the project through video which you do so well. The best part for me was the peek-a-boo surprise near the end when you show the steam-engine style cam action which is such beautiful movement, but certainly envisioning and executing the Bondo handles was impressive. As a fellow restorer, I appreciated all the embedded tips. Thank you!
I live very near the city of Kent where the motor was made. You work very quickly and skillfully, always enjoy your work.
wonderful job as usual. Im 66 and never seen one before
I like to see your work ... how you handle old mashines and how they look after you had them in you Hands ... awesome Job ... again ... 👍🏽
Joe Kerr true
Nice job, I used to use a very similar Cutawl (albeit a newer model). It was the rotary diemakers saw of choice way before lasers were affordable. Great to see it back in action 👍
Amazing transformation from back when Black & Decker was a quality brand.
Greg Hanlon I mean this is a a useless tool nowadays
now its just crappy cheapo plastic sold at target
Now I knew about first 20's century equipments. Great!! Thank for your videos
truly a beauty, a bonny and a joy for all
Hello uncle bumblefcuk!
These is one restoration masterpiece I ever watch. It's not easy to do it. You are like Picasso doing art!
Joe Galaxy Harun Que buen trabajo saludes🇨🇴
Not bad,but you must see this guy ua-cam.com/channels/MrMVIBtqFW6O0-MWq26gqw.html
Yeah...I am agreed. Not only a highly skill, he also have magnificent sense of art....👍👍
For me it's like an old movie...
One, that you saw dozen or maybe hundred of times...
You already know how it will ends... but you can't simply stop watching.
Все таки,до середины 70х годов прошлого века,инструменты делали не только вечные,но и красивые. Мастеру-респект и уважуха!
Very good, and thanks for showing the machine being used at the end too.
That has an amazing amount of little parts and machine holes and dealies for a 1930's tool.
Of all the work you did on this, I love the two black ball handles you made.
I used a Cutawl right up to retirement age when working in CBC Art Department. A great tool for fine detail work . Using the rotating saw blade with a forward motion of the machine took time to learn, but was amazing after. Although ours was a later model, (50s/60s? ), it was black, not brown. Fine job restoring though!!
Nice machine, Nice job, i love the method of making the new knob, the preparation H helps the machine do piles of work. excellent. Tony, Australia.
How flammable is this guy's workbench at this point?
These are just so satisfying to watch! Especially at the end when you get a working antique.
tim kenney I’m a working antique.
when tools were built to last. you only had to buy one to work your lifetime. then someone else used it again. I still like to take thing apart to see how they work. love your show and my little wrench. need big one in the future. thanks for the show
By all means, this thing looks like a transformed sewing machine.
Very nice job, good that this kind of history do not rots away in a barn or gets thrown away. Thanks for sharing
yay HTR uploaded!
I really enjoy your videos. Taking something old and making it look new AND functional again is just awesome. Keep it up :-)
Very satisfying watching your videos. Great to see old tools given a new life. Excellent work.
G’day another fantastic job the making of the balls was something else. Good one John😊😎
great job. I really like watching your videos as there is no talk, just action and you are very skilled. I have a 1970s hilti hammer drill lying in the corner of my shed if you want it?
James Healy i want it 😂
Finally. A practical solution to cutting cardboard.
I use scissor.
He was joking
r/whoosh
I'm still using my pet piranha, Chompy.
While I expect that was intended as sarcasm, you're absolutely right - The CutAwl was intended for exactly that kind of use - on a scale that you couldn't accomplish easily with scissors or a hand-held knife: Think set and prop-making for theaters, stencils for painted billboards, etc. It's impractical to cut that kind of thing with hand-powered tools, and, it's also impractical to elevate them on stands to make clearance for a long penetrating blade like a normal jig-saw uses. The CutAwl can be adjusted so that you can just lay a sheet of material on the floor and drive it around to cut your design, without damaging the floor underneath.
This is one of the coolest little machines i've ever seen!
This is one of my favorites of yours. Just a great little machine.
I have never seen one of those before. Fantastic job!!!
In reference to you being told not to remove the fragile wheel, I can attest that many "experts" deal with idiots constantly, so have become accustomed to telling everyone not to do this or that because only someone with their expertise and skill can accomplish such a delicate task. I've learned that an equal percentage of them are idiots themselves and have broken things they arrogantly believed only they could work on successfully.
The moral to that story is, you always need to know the source of your information. That's especially true with the current methodology of education doled out at the university level. Trade schools are where you actually learn useful life skills. I guess that's why Mike Rowe is giving scholarships to those who attend trade school instead of the university.
So, keep fixing things the experts can't fix, because it's just too difficult for them to do. We love watching you do the impossible. At least the impossible to those who can't think and don't understand the physics behind what they are doing.
Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
Oh, and my wife thinks I can fix anything. Just yesterday she told me I could fix the plastic lid to her mixer that broke in two pieces. I might, but is it worth it? To help her be happy with her husband of 43 years, it might be, but frankly, the time it would take me will cost more in lost revenue were I to work a little overtime than the price of a new mixer. Now to sell her on that idea. Not an easy sell... The type of plastic they make those lids out of requires more than I wish to worry about, especially since we lost the piece that broke off, and it contains half of the hinge.
One thing I do is buy old, broken grass rakes if they are steel. Why? Because the steel "teeth" in the rakes can be used to make smaller tools, such as locksmith rakes, which I need now and then (hobbyist, not professional) and for this project, new blades.
Nah this guy is deffo an idiot. Check all his content, 20-50% downvotes because he ruins antiques and calls it 'restoration'.
La cura con cui tieni pulito ed in ordine il tuo tavolo da lavoro è commovente! Ottimo lavoro
You are, if nothing else, insanely thorough.
Foam ear plugs... Why did I never think of using that. Thank you!
Bet it creates a much better seal then what I was using often to plug holes before painting, Toilet paper.
Beautiful job! That’ll last another 100 years!
It won't make past one of it's used
Not with Preparation H in the crank case it won't. WTF.
csorrows better than that Nutella that can e out of it
WONDERFUL VIDEO,I LOVE OLD TOOLS AND MOTORS--HAVE A FEW..THANKS FOR THE VIDEO...
This is easily the second-best sewing maching router on UA-cam
Hows great & nice sharing this video thanks!!
Oh I love the colours. It looks like it came directly from the factory. It is so beautyful. Really good job sir 😊😊😊❤
Thank you!
One of the greatest videos ever! Your skills are sublime!
Gunk. I cleaned the engine bay of my car with the stuff, and the results were amazing, but it was few months before the smell finally disappeared! Great video! *****
Just stumbled upon your channel by total accident, so glad I did.
You're an embodiment of what makes youtube great as a medium, thank you.
Modern power tools are great and all and offer great flexibility due to battery power, often offer more options that old tools etc, but realistically speaking they are mostly "plastic crap" and tools won't be around in 85 years (and wouldn't be worth/impossible to restore then). Very different story for a tool like this cutawl.
Also, will you be my friend when the zombie apocalypse comes?
I hate these comments about all tools being plastic crap, you know what nothing has changed the covers went from tin to plastic and stoppers went from leather to rubber. You want a good quality tool spend good money.
You really deserve more subs these are great videos.
+scyther1 Thank you! I already have way way more subs than I ever thought possible.
And now you have another.
That was amazing. I restore antique locks as a hobby, and your video gave me some great insight into restoration techniques that do no harm.
Thank you!
I’ve seen you do a lot of ingenious things while watching your videos but the way you made those two handles out of Bondo was just over the top fantastic.seeing that confirms it for me that you can fix anything.
As usual your attention to detail is second to none great work.
Nice, it looks like it might of have been a pattern cutter from the clothing/leather good industry where they stacked multiple layers and it's razor sharp blade could follow contours easily.
i hardly ever watch anything longer than 10 mins on utube. but this is amazing from beginning to end.
Preparation H for grease?? Body putty knobs? You got me again young fella. Congratulations, I really love the knobs. What they lack in durability is balanced by their ease of replacement. Just genius.
Art
Nice vid:
.- Nice job,
.- No boring words,
.- AND NO ANNOYING MUSIC! (Thank you very much for that!)
How flammable is this guy's workbench at this point?
Very...
Mauro Molinero
Its more likely to explode into a giant fireball
SHH, it's a secret offshore site unknown to EPA or OSHA, or EU. He keeps it warm by burning MSDS.
Its over 9000
9:47 Well that's dangerous enough
The shade of "poo brown" you used on the tool is really quite charming, not something you see often in restorations.
He almost always matches original colors. The company must've like poop
I've just discovered these restoration videos and MAN are they relaxing and satisfying. Yours are some of the best, as are "my mechanics" (although he only has a few).
Excellent. A real restoration is why I really like watching your work. In restoration a thing should look like it just came out of the shop, no improvements, just the honest truth of this how it was before it got into the mess it's in now. A pleasure to behold your work, sir. Thanks.
seriously my favorite youtube channel to watch. keep up the awesome vids man
Thank you! Maybe one day I'll restore my life.
+Hand Tool Rescue all you need for that is Nutella👍
Nicholas Triana i may have to agree with you on that one.
+stuart cox hahaha hey can't get any better than Nutella
Somebody needs to tell the Evapo-Rust folks that you're in the pocket of Big Bondo ;)
I was very impressed at your ability to put it all back together... I was lost after the first 3 minutes. Great Job!
He's got it on video! So he can go back and look at it to see how it came apart!!
Всё таки у старых машин есть какой-то шарм и породистость! Делали основательно и красиво. Реставратору респект!
If only you had repaired the lamp holder as well.. such a great restoration effort, and then you stop five minutes before the masterpiece is finished..
в хорошее время живём, современный инструмент, химия всякая разная, молодец дядька дай бог тебе здоровья.
Фёдор Мурзов - In English, please
This turned out beautiful...you are truly gifted! Brilliant workmanship...especially on the guiding knobs...that was just plain cool 😎👍🏻
That looks Tight! Nicely done.
Preparation H as a substitute for grease!!?? That's a first for me.
Nice video by the way.
The cooling and anti-inflammatory properties help keep high-speed, high-friction machine parts well within tolerances.
It's an emoillient with lubricating properties, really any similar "preparation" would do but he was just messin' with us knowin some would think it's special then go tell their machinist old uncle ... lol👍😃
Well you sound fortunate enough to have never had to use it. Otherwise, you'd know. Lots of maintenance wipes during a day of usage.
AvE are you here? Look at this man, he is fixing stuff !
Green. Air. Denailer
Excellent job! On the restoration of the cutall!
That is so friggen cool! Just got into resterations and been hooked on the old tools. Very inspiring veeeery fun looking. Epic tool epic work.
Beautiful
применение в мастерской под сомнением ,вот в музей загнать...респект мастеру!
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Bravo.... Great job! It almost looks like an older sewing machine!
Simply wow😀 ,This restoration 👏👏well done !
An absolute delight to watch.
+Ed Op Thank you!
NOT
US Patent: 1,492,554
Scroll-cutting machine
Patentee:
Vincent Colby - Chicago, IL
USPTO Classifications:
30/164.9, 30/275
Tool Categories:
woodworking machines : handheld power tools : handheld jigsaws
woodworking machines : reciprocating saws : handheld jigsaws
Assignees:
International Register Co. - Chicago, IL
Manufacturer:
International Register Co. - Chicago, IL
Witnesses:
Unknown
Patent Dates:
Applied: Jan. 19, 1921
Granted: May 06, 1924
I love your videos... Saw something being thrown out at work today and thaught to myself: He would restaure it... Nice.
Way better tool then what they make now. Lots of engineering and well designed. Semper fi