Another Day A further Project
I went to pick it up one evening with my son and got speaking to the owner who mentioned that he by no means used the band saw but that he had gotten it on a trade 3 years earlier. He also told me that the original owner told him that each time he plugged in the band saw that it would blow the breaker. I figured that worst case situation it would just need a new motor (which I had a lot of lying around). I agreed to the purchase and hauled it property.
On some sawmills we would run as high as 7,000 fpm. This triggered some high friction and when the bandsaw blade ran into some adverse knots or really hard places the blade would reduce badly. On the very same sawmill we slowed the band to five,500 and the difficulty with sawing disappeared. After you have …
Another Day A further Project Read More