In message #15498 below I said "?there is no rotational dependency so you don't need to worry about getting the pivot shaft installed correctly. "? This was regard to a simplified lathe-based mod of the pivot shaft.? However, as John indicates in his forthcoming document, this is not true if your band saw happens to be one where the pivot shaft is fixed in place with a grub screw.? I missed this point because my bandsaw uses a spring pin, not a screw.? I'm jumping the gun a bit here because I feel responsible for potentially causing a problem with someone's machine.
If any folks with that setup are considering doing the mod I strongly suggest waiting until John comes out with the finalized version of his document.? ?There are a lot of good pointers in it regardless of what particular flavor of 4x6 bandsaw you've got.
Mark
