Category Archives: Bandsaw 2018

During this session generally added more bracing to make the main vertical support and the upper wheel assembly horizontal arm more robust, to minimise shaking and vibration. More pine and a bracing board on the side.

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…

With the base box motor and lower wheel ready we can start to plan the vertical post that will support the upper wheel mount assembly on a horizontal arm support. Using a length of 90 x 70 pine that sill … Continue reading →

I need to know exactly where to locate the top edge of the upper wheel assembly horizontal support arm and mark that off on the vertical support. For that we need to measure the distance between the shaft or bearing … Continue reading →