Category: Bandsaw 2015

Checkout one of my most ambitious projects that I built in 2015.

Click on picture to view construction in chronological order.

As posted earlier when I fitted the new table to the saw I neglected to make sure the blade was correctly tensioned and aligned in the blade guides, so when I did setup things correctly the table ended up to the right of the blades true position – bugger. This in turn threw out the alignment of my freshly made insert so I had to butcher that to make it fit.
Wait there’s more, then I noticed yesterday the table was also not parallel to the front of the saw – skewed to the right a bit. This morning we are going back to fix all that.

 

Continue reading “Bandsaw table update”

In this post I am rectifying something that is the result of my previous effort to rectify something that was overlooked originally when I was building the saw last year that should not have slipped past me but it did so I failed to rectify the original stuff-up – confused now !
With regard to the last fix I noticed the the blade guide arm was skewed to the right with respect to the main frame and in fixing that I noticed today while cleaning the saw that the same arm was now not at right angles to the table but angled back a bit – hmm.

The blade guide arm which slides up and down for cutting height mates with that length of timber with the four screws. All of that had to come off to fix the skew issue and and when I fitted that bit of timber back I neglected to drive the screws back into the original holes. I lined up the top screw OK but failed to notice the timber was not parallel to the tension block (to the right a bit at the bottom) so the bottom screw ended up to the right of the original hole.
Continue reading “Bandsaw – guide arm skewed”

Seniors moment during construction – last year!
Noticed today while using the saw that the whole upper blade guide arm assembly is skewed with respect to…err…everything else! How did that happen? with a good eye for true & square even before I pick up a square that should not have slipped past me – ????

Dismantling stuff (back tracking) to find out where the skew problem lies.

The guide bar slides on this timber for height adjustment. The block at the bottom is part of the guide bar clamp.

Continue reading “Bandsaw Update”

In the previous workshop post I routed a track down the table for cross cutting, here I’ve done another track across the table for rip cuts.

Above: This is where I finished the previous session with a track down the table… Continue reading “Bandsaw – new table update”

Further to this just finished routing a 12mm mitre track down the table for cross cuts. Next job is to do one across for rip cuts. Oldies reading this should note the make of the (all metal) mitre gauge!

Above: The Ryobi trim router is so nifty – good buy. Continue reading “Bandsaw – new table”

Finally got around to replacing the temporary table that was a rush job so I could start cutting wood on the saw.

Above: With the old temporary table removed you can see stuff that’s normally out of view; the bottom wheel and lower blade guides. Continue reading “Bandsaw – replacement table”

It turned out to be quite a large beast! Using a old measuring stick I’m 6’2″ and the saw is 6’9″, no wonder I had to use a small stepladder when working on the top wheel tensioner assembly which also facilities blade tracking.

This is the lower wheel tyre that I just replaced because it has stretched quite a bit.

I mentioned in the previous post that I did not do a good job of cutting out around the valve…and you can see that in this picture. I suspect this contributed quite a bit to the tyre stretching.

While replacing the damaged lower wheel outer bearing flange it got me thinking just how much load/strain is placed on the lower (driven) wheel and it’s related components. When fitting the tyre back onto the wheel I noticed that is had stretched quite a bit as it went onto the wheel too easily!
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