Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
?I have a benchtop mini-mill with a rotary table for milling curves or drilling out precise bolt hole circles and such.
Rotary Table from LittleMachineShop.com
So my idea would be: Instead of
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OneBike2Ride
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Re: HF sawblade?
Unless I'm missing something Dave your saw is the same as most everyone
else's, and I was talking about something else entirely
Let's define some terms first:
The guide assembly is made up of a guide
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John Vreede
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Re: HF sawblade?
Hi John-
My saw is an '85 Packard with a capacity greater than most 4x6s (there are photos of it in the photo section under Packard).? I may have something similar to what you mention:? the roller
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Dave Seiter
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Re: HF sawblade?
Dave, just trying to decipher what you've said.
Have you got one of those old HF 'Greenie' saws with the one-piece cast
alloy guide assemblies sliding on the outside of the sawframe casting,
where the
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John Vreede
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Re: HF sawblade?
While I was waiting for new blades from sawblade.com to arrive this week, I spent some quality time with my saw and discovered that there was a lot of gunk between the blade guide bar and the slot it
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Dave Seiter
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Exactly.? I don't particularly like that arrangement because if you aren't careful you could get the "proper" clearance adjustment but be in a less than ideal situation.? I know because I was
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tonydi_499
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Oops , I went back over his posts , he said there were 2 on one and one on the other .
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Terry Coombs
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
You're right there is no reason to have 2 on one guide and none on the
other.
Tony's photos showed both guides adjusted snug, and you can't do that with
no eccentrics so I assume there are eccentrics
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John Vreede
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Why would they use 2 eccentrics on one guide bar and none on the other ? I thought perhaps some previous owner might have mixed them up and put one on the wrong guide bar .
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Terry Coombs
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Some saws have eccentrics on both sides of the blade like my old UC115 (and
I think Tony's) and others have them only on the outside like yours.
Better made ones normally have only one, where not so
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John Vreede
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Well you could look at it a different way. The table IS square to the blade, it is just the wrong shape.
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[email protected]
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
My saw blade is adjusted to where it cuts straight in the horizontal position. That is where I do alost all my cutting.
That is what it is built to do.
If I wanted to make my table perfectly square to
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Bill Armstrong
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
You mentioned in an earlier post that both eccentric blade guide rollers were on one guide . My saw has one on each guide bar , and I'm surprised that no one else has commented on this . That in
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Terry Coombs
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
As I said, I do want to use a fence and that's a ton easier if the table is square to the blade.
And @Other Bill......it's definitely not that easy to fix using either the OE range of adjustment or
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tonydi_499
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Re: Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Thanks, John, excellent description!? And thanks for all of yours and everyone else's input, much appreciated.
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tonydi_499
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
Me three!
It’s what I mentioned at the get-go, since my saw has that out-of-squareness too, and….I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me.
If it did, it’s easy enough to fix!
Other Bill
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Bill Armstrong
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
I agree with you.
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John H
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Re: [ExternalEmail] Re: [4x6bandsaw] Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
I must be missing something here. Why do you care if the blade is square to the table?
Unless you are using a fence or jig do you really care, and if you are using one of them, why not just build it
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[email protected]
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Re: Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
If you clamp a thin flat 6" rule to the side of the blade-body (above the
teeth!) as in 'Adjusting the bearing guide seats...' bottom of pg14 of the
Wilton 5x8 manual in the Files section (called
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John Vreede
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Re: Out of ideas to fix blade alignment
I actually did have a "reverse slot" table but recently went back to the OE table because I am starting to change blades more often.? It had the same issue but that's probably because I used the OE
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tonydi_499
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