Category Archives: Bandsaw 2015

Short video of the new pulley mounted on the 12mm shaft at the rear of the motor. I pre-cut the groove on the router table with a V-bit and then mounted the pulley on the motor shaft to finish turning … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of days been trying to recover from a major setback, while trying to turn the crowns on the fattened wheels the V-drive pulley, which is bolted to the impeller, keeps separating itself (spinning off) from the … Continue reading →

With lots of grinding I put a V point cutting edge on one of my old files to turn V-groves on pulleys and drive wheels.

Plodding along…and yes moving forward in the right direction. Until now the bearing flanges were just screwed on but when the wheels are spinning under load from blade tension there will be something like 150lbs (70kgs) of force being thrown … Continue reading →

The upper and lower wheels are basically finished and run true with minimal wobble, however there is one more task – fatten the rims. The wheels are made from 17mm laminated chipboard of which I have a good supply. I … Continue reading →

The lower wheel has a drive pulley with a V-grove to accommodate the notched V belt. To cut the grove in the drive pulley I need to some how spin the thing so I made a smaller pulley and cut … Continue reading →

I need some bearings for the blade guides and fortuitously came across a skateboard (kids grown up & left home) while putting stuff out for our annual council clean up – nice. Skateboards have 2 bearings per wheel so I … Continue reading →

The new motor pulley that I made needs some grub screws to secure it to the motor shaft so back to Masters hardware. Two packets of assorted grub screws – nice.

Browsing through Masters and came across a nice little hardware section down in one of the back rows. All sorts of threaded rod and other metal stuff so with the bandsaw blade tensioner in mind grabbed a 300mm length of … Continue reading →

Bought a V-belt from Supercheap Auto for $12 – to drive the lower wheel.