Hi folks. A few months ago, I picked up this Griffin bandsaw.
So I wanted to give an overview on the bandsaw itself and then show you it in
action. So let's get to it. All right.
So this is a really easy unit to assemble and to break down for cleaning,
this is the base unit, got the flywheel.
The Bansal actually goes around right here and in the inside,
what you would do when you're fragging stuff is to fill that up with your tank
water about a quarter inch of tank water.
And to start off, what you would do is you just,
this is the upper part of the unit with the motor and what have you.
And it just slides into these holes right here, right in that place.
The next step is to actually take the band saw itself,
the diamond coated band saw blade.
You got to make sure that the rough part is facing out towards you.
So it's just what I do is I started off by putting around the,
the flywheel and the bottom here.
And then I take my thumb right here on the left side and I just rotate
it. So it catches on the, uh, the flywheel and spin it a couple of times.
You can see there's some spots where the blade itself will go
into, I guess these are like styrofoam pieces.
So it just keeps the blade in place and make sure it's not moving around.
Then you've got a couple of sponges and the sponges are key because they will
prevent the water from splashing around,
outside the unit onto you and all over the place.
So the first sponge will go on the bottom underneath the flywheel.
So that's the location right there for that first sponge.
Make sure the second sponge is a moist with the tank.
Water gets placed right here,
and you can put the cover back on protect the flywheel on the
top, right? And you've got the,
um, base of the unit, right air,
and it just slides in into place.
And you're all ready to rock and roll.
And in terms of breaking it down and cleaning it,
can you do pretty much the same thing in reverse? Take off the cover,
take off the main plate right here,
pull the sponges out.
And what I normally do is I just a tip down the top part of the unit
and that'll, um, loosen the blade itself,
detachment the top and the bottom.
And the top part comes out and everything gets cleaned.
So I go over to my slop sink right over there,
and I would just be careful in terms of when I'm washing, uh, you know,
different pieces of equipment out here,
I'll take a sponge to this or paper towels,
just make sure that's all cleaned up.
And the other really cool thing in terms of the, um,
base of the unit.
And this is really where you get most of the dirt and gunk from that'll
collect in here, but it's got this nice little feature right here.
So when you got the water in the unit,
you could just tip it and it's all going to pour out right here.
And so it's just nice and easy to clean. And I do it after each time. I,
I, um, frag stuff. So that's really a great idea, but yeah,
that's really kind of a quick overview in terms of how to set it up and break it
down for cleaning. Okay.
So I picked this band so up to frag LPs, I've never,
fragged LPs and I have a hammer, coral Duncan, coral,
and some Gany Pura that I wanted to frag and I needed something to do that with.
So that's why I picked up this bandsaw,
but I've also found this band saw to be very useful with, um,
helping to frag SPS. So I had this Kelly tort colony,
this huge colony it's about two feet across in my 187 gallon
tank.
So I used one of these bone cutters to go and cut a
big branch off of that colony.
And then I took that big branch and I put it under the, uh, the band saw here.
And the great thing is that I was able to get very precise cuts
using this band saw.
So I could definitely see myself using this in the future to
help cut a SPS. Frags I think it's just a, uh, it's, it's predictable,
but these bone cutters, they're not so predictable in terms of when you,
you know, try to make a cut. Sometimes the branches will, uh,
fracture off in a different way than you had intended.
So great for also fragging SPS in terms of the, uh,
the larger branches or colonies. And, um, I also put this, uh,
to use and in terms of taking colonies,
I got some grout grow out colonies and my frag tank where my frag tanks
and, uh, yeah, it was just a lot easier to, to use this,
to get some frags off of that versus the bone cutters.
All right now on to the LPs for the Dunkin quarrel,
this was just it cut through the dung and coral like butter. And, you know,
after I fragged, uh, a few pieces off of that quarrel, I use this reef dip,
it's an iodine dip, and that helps to prevent the bacterial infections.
So I dipped for, for 15 minutes, it says you can dip for 15 to 30 minutes,
but I just did it for 15 minutes. And he, you know, here's,
here's a video of the frags after the fact a week or two after the fact they
look great. So I was really pumped as for the hammer coral.
I got some beautiful frags off of that as well. Again,
this thing just cut through the skeleton like butter,
and here's some video of the frags after the fact.
And then finally I use this to make multiple frags of a red
gynae Pura, and just, you know,
I S I initially started off by making one large cut,
and then I made several smaller cuts into little squares,
did a great job. It was, um, really easy to use. So for me,
never using a band saw before there was not much of a learning curve.
It was pretty intuitive. And as you can see,
these gynae poor frags are very healthy.
So to sum up my thoughts on this Griffin band saw really easy to use,
easy to set up and break down for cleaning great for fragging
LPs and even SPS. It does cost a few hundred dollars,
but you can justify that cost because you're fragging,
corals selling them, and you can make some of that money back,
but a great tool to have in the toolkit.
Well, that will do it for this video.
I will put a link in the video description below for the band,
so that I used as well as other links for reef bomb and Marine Depot.
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