Hack saw history

While saws for cutting metal had been in use for many years, significant improvements in longevity and efficiency were made in the s by George N. Clemson, a founder of Clemson Bros.

Clemson conducted tests which involved changing the dimensions, shapes of teeth, styles of set, and variable heat treatments of blades. Clemson claimed enormous improvements to the cutting ability of blades and built a major industrial operation manufacturing hacksaw blades sold under the trade name Star Hack Saw.

In , Clemson was granted US Patent , which details various improvements in the hacksaw. Parts of Hacksaw. How to use Hacksaw? Nope still not allowed Check out Vintagemachinery. The military did have a manual for the model 3 in the above link. Send me a PM if you have any questions in particular. I have had a model 3 variant in the past. Originally Posted by plastikdreams. Originally Posted by thermite.

Beyond me as to WHY, though? Harbour Freight bandsaw? No on my watch. I'm good with my Kasto, thanks. Can't see them at fault in galloping brain-rot whilst the site founder himself is fawning all TF over a Chicom lathe.

Originally Posted by Ultradog MN. It is not a toy. Weighs I'd guess lbs. More than many non chinesium band saws. But if it is machina non grata I have no problems if you delete this whole thread. I believe the ban on Industrial power hacksaws has been lifted in the "Antique Machinery and History" forum. There was a rather spirited discussion on the subject back in when I first posted about a Racine saw I had acquired.

There have been over posts regarding these machines, some dating back to There is still a ban on hobby grade, or DIY power hacksaws in all forums. RCPDesigns liked this post. Originally Posted by projectnut. It seems the majority of the earlier posts center around hobby grade machines like Craftsman and others sold by now defunct department stores.

I'm sure they violated the rules as much for their brand names as well as being hobby grade. More recent posts seem to be centered around industrial brands, most of which are no longer made. Looking at the price of the new Kasto machines makes my old Racine machine look like an even better bargain. I'm sure I'm missing out on the computer controls and the energy efficiency, but I can live with that.

I would think that any power hacksaw of former US production and currently out of production would be grist for the Antique section? Perhaps it is? The army initially refused his request to be a medic and assigned him to a rifle company, figuring that peer pressure and intimidation might convince him to handle a weapon.

His fellow soldiers regarded him as a pest and thought he was putting on an act. The Hacksaw Ridge true story confirms that, like in the movie, they ridiculed him and didn't want to associate with him. They called him "Holy Jesus" and "Holy Joe. I don't think I could have taken it, but he hung in there. He hung in there regardless of what they said or what they did.

In addition, the movie's early antagonist, Smitty portrayed by Luke Bracey , appears to be a fictional composite of some of Desmond's tormentors. The Medal of Honor recipient remembers some of the threats. As a Seventh-day Adventist, he believed in an adherence to the Fourth Commandment, which says to keep the Sabbath day holy.

This meant from sundown Friday until sundown Saturday, he devoted himself to prayer. Some of his fellow soldiers thought it was a convenient way to get out of doing any work.

Desmond's captain in the medical corps, Captain Solomon Statman, threatened to court-martial him if he kept asking for a pass to go to church on Saturdays. Yes, as his officers grew less tolerant of his refusal to bear arms or work on Saturdays, they convened a meeting to discharge him on a Section 8 for mental instability. Sergeant Howell, portrayed by Vince Vaughn in the movie, came to Desmond's tent and told him to turn in his aid kits, that he was no longer a medic.

Colonel Gerald Cooney was pressured into holding the hearing and Desmond was called to answer the mental instability charge. The officers relented and knew Washington would never approve a Section 8 solely on religious grounds.

Yes, but things didn't escalate as far as they do in the movie. While training in the U. Cunningham got into an argument with Desmond and told him only those men who participated in rifle training were allowed passes to go into town.

After Desmond told him that he didn't have to touch a weapon and that it was stated in his file, the captain tried to humiliate him by forcing a rifle into his hands in front of the men. The captain told him to take the rifle or he would be court-martialed, but Desmond let it fall to the ground. As Cunningham started telling him that he was court-martialing him, another officer stepped in and told Cunningham to back off and respect what was written right there in his record.

Cunningham relented and gave Desmond the pass, but it didn't stop him from continuing to make Desmond's life a living hell. In the movie, no other officer steps in to stop Cunningham, and the altercation leads to Desmond being put in a holding cell before the hearing. In real life, Cunningham later denied Desmond passes to see his wife and denied him a two-week furlough to see his brother Harold, who was on his last furlough before heading overseas with the Navy.

Desmond was crushed that he likely wouldn't be able to see Harold before he shipped out. The movie instead has Desmond Andrew Garfield despondent after he is forced to miss his own wedding, a scenario that is fiction he was already married by then. In the movie, Desmond's father, Tom Doss Hugo Weaving , contacts his former commanding officer who writes a letter that stops Desmond from being court-martialed a scenario that never happened in real life.

According to the true story, when Desmond was denied leave for refusing to touch a gun, his father contacted the chairman of the church's War Service Commission in Washington, Carlyle B. The chairman made a call to the regimental commander, Colonel Stephen S. Hamilton, asking if it was necessary for him to come investigate the situation with Desmond Doss. The colonel told him no and that they would straighten things out. Desmond still had to wait for his furlough, but as a result of his father's actions, he was given a 3-day pass to go home and see his brother Harold before he returned to the Navy to go overseas.

But the tears came though after the train pulled out. His father stood looking for Desmond but their eyes never met. Desmond threw a brick with a note wrapped around it, hoping his father would see it. It seems likely that this is true, at least according to the stories told by some of his comrades who found an American bandage on an enemy soldier. They used some strong language.

So I knew better than to try to take care of a Japanese. However, Desmond did have a willingness to help anyone who was injured. He often went out in the darkness looking for fallen comrades to bring to safety. His heroics didn't go unnoticed, as fellow soldiers were often amazed he was still alive.

A fact-check of the Hacksaw Ridge movie supports that the United States invaded the island of Okinawa in order to use the island as an air base for an invasion of mainland Japan, which is only miles away. Japanese forces were deeply entrenched on the island, hammering American troops from caves and tunnels, in addition to setting booby traps.

Private Desmond Doss and his battalion were ordered to ascend a jagged foot escarpment called the Maeda Escarpment, which was heavily fortified with Japanese defenders.

Okinawa's Maeda Escarpment is an approximately foot high ridge that runs across most of the island of Okinawa. That's what we had to face. The escarpment was so deadly it was dubbed "Hacksaw Ridge. The machine gun fire was sometimes so thick that men would be cut in half. Yes, and medic Desmond Doss was one of the three men who volunteered to go up the ridge and hang the cargo nets something not shown in the movie.

They were the same cargo nets that the men had used to climb down from the army personnel carriers into the landing crafts that took them ashore.