14” Bandsaw – More table work

With the upper blade guides completed and before moving on to the lower guides I’ll do some more work on the table. Even though this is a temporary one it still needs to be sturdy and square in all directions with respect to the blade.

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Using a Stanley roofing square to check across and down the table.

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14” Bandsaw – Blade guides 3

From the previous session we finished with the thrust bearing sliding arm, which also contains the sliding guide block from the top, which is now ready to drill and file a slotted hole through which will pass a 5/16th rod.

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Need to drill out the pilot hole with a 6.5mm bit and the run through a 5/15th tap.

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