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Re: FB610 bandsaw blade position on the wheels: in the middle or near the edge?

 

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Bandsaws are simple and there are good ones made in Taiwan.? Many US companies made wonderful large saws,? Northfield still does ( a few anyway ).? The fact there are few manufacturers now leads me to believe there isn't much profit or volume in the business.? How many ACM 740 get built and sold now, even world wide?? At least there are enough choices for the few of us who want them.? There are also great cast iron saws for less than half of the cost of new steel.? Dave

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Subject: Re: [FOG] FB610 bandsaw blade position on the wheels: in the middle or near the edge?
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I prefer ¡°robust rigidity¡± to all the other terms. ?LOL

David Best - Sent from my iPad

On Feb 20, 2020, at 7:13 PM, mark thomas <murkyd@...> wrote:

?To be fair, the terms are ambiguous.? You're using "strong" more or less as a synonym for "yield strength", but I think it's more common to use it as a vague and ill-defined term to describe a combination of more specific properties.? On the other hand, "stiff" does have a more precise meaning in materials and mechanics.?

Thinking more about bandsaws, it occurs to me that perhaps the optimal stiffness is part art, not just bean counting.? Probably too stiff is bad -- you want some flex to absorb shocks, etc.?

As a tangent, my Dad gave me The New Science of Strong Materials when I was about 10.? I still have it decades later and pick it up now and then.? Great book:

New Science of Strong Materials

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