Monthly Archives: January 2018

With the saw now clamped down on the low table with just the lower wheel the shaking has been reduced to an acceptable level.

From the previous post removed the lower wheel to check again for run-out, wobble and balance etc.  Went through each one again, trimmed the rim a bit for run-out, cleaned up the crown and rebalanced the wheel again. Hmm nothing … Continue reading →

A big problem! Everything going along nicely until we got to a interesting stage, in fact a milestone for this bandsaw build. With tyres fitted to each wheel and mounted on the saw, motor assembly aligned and V-belt tensioned it’s … Continue reading →

Something I’ve been putting off is to prepare another shaft, actually aluminium tube, to mount the upper wheel.

Time to fit tyres to the wheels In the tub of ‘parts’ for this build we have two 12” bicycle inner tubes from Kmart – $5 each.

From the afternoon session with the upper wheel mount blade adjustment component completed we can now mount the upper wheel and start adjusting them for coplanar alignment. Google the word ‘coplanar ‘. With the upper wheel set to it’s lowest … Continue reading →

For this session doing some more work on the upper wheel mount assembly. Gluing on two blocks…