Month: December 2017

14″ Bandsaw project – as mentioned in previous posts I gave up with the idea of a hinged motor mount, put that aside and carried on with balancing the lower wheel. With that done we are now back to mounting the motor assembly.

Decided to take the same approach as I did with the 8″ bandsaw, the motor base will just sit on the bottom of the base box with allowance to move in both directions for belt tension (left to right) and belt alignment (front to back).
Here I glued and screwed a pine block to the motor base, then drilled and tapped a 3/8″ hole for the threaded rod (belt tension). Smeared the tapped hole with Araldite before screwing in the threaded rod.

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From the previous session I think I’ve given up with the hinged motor mount due to excessive belt bounce etc. While thinking about that may as well balance the lower wheel. This is a laborious procedure which will need to be repeated for the upper wheel.

While thinking about some other motor mount arrangement let’s balance the lower wheel.

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Pondering which way to go with this, on the first 14” saw went for the hinged motor mount with a threaded rod for belt tension. From memory there was some shaking, likely belt bounce. With the 8” saw the motor sat on the bottom of the base box in mitre slides with the threaded tension going through the side of the box.

OK…will use the hinged setup.

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There are a few ways to mount the motor. The 8″ bandsaw I built earlier this year just sat on the box base and moved left-to-right in mitre slides for belt tension, and front-to-back for V-belt alignment.

The original 14″ bandsaw I built in 2014 used a hinged motor mount with threaded rod for belt tension and mitre slides for V-belt alignment.

Decided to go with a hinged motor mount, the weight of the motor (quiet heavy) will assist with V-belt tension.

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From the last related post trying to work out where to locate the lower wheel and motor in the saw base box. To the left of the wheel will be the main vertical post that will support the upper saw components, the upper wheel mounted in a framed wheel block that will allow for blade tension and blade tracking.

I need to make sure I have enough room for the vertical support post that will be fixed to the left edge of the base box and…some idea of the length or more correctly the height.
Done a mock layout here with the 2553mm blade tensioned around the 14″ wheels. Bearing centre to centre is 71mm – write that down.

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