The other day I was telling my neighbor , John, about a paint can shaker for a recip saw. That night I got the idea that maybe I could make a hand scraper fit the same tool.
Today I got out my best scraper and figured I would have to cut and weld it to a cut saw blade. By using my recip saw I was able to just cut down the side of the handle to expose the haft of the scraper.
Some of the handle got pretty gooey!
Once I went down both sides the metal was free of the handle.
It was here that I found the lower hole in the scraper blade and wondered if I could just make the same shape as the recip blade fitting. Why not try? Says I.
An old blade was set up for sizing and shape. I aligned the 2 blades and blocked out the material to remove with a felt pen. No not the auto pen!.......
Using a center punch I marked the hole for the recip lock, this hole is 1/8". The scraper blade really put the hurt to my punch!
I got the hole drilled ok and went about trying to figure out the best way to remove the excess material. I finally decided to just use my grinding wheel and began to freehand the removal. After a short stint i decided to clamp the old recip blade to the scraper and matching the 2, 1/8th holes and clamping with a vise grips it was all done in short order.
I wire wheeled the edges clean and it went first try into the saw!
It worked on a couple of hard surfaces, and let me tell you this is a stiff scraper blade and really kicks back if I hit an edge! But it did not bend! From start to finish this only took around 25 minutes. Next I'll get a softer scraper blade to make and try that. Either should make a large scraping job shorter!
