I doubt we will ever know this. They sent the replacement blade and there wasn¡¯t any mention of an RMA or return requirement. I will ask.?
The lesson I was trying to emphasize - if you are having tracking problems after installing a new blade, there is a chance it¡¯s not your saw and don¡¯t hesitate to try a different blade.?
The only thing I can theorize is the blade ends may not have been perfectly perpendicular when welded and the leading edge had less tension than the rear. Or all the teeth were somehow dull on the inner edge, but that seems less likely.
I was too slow to investigate this ¡°bad news blade¡± possibility and lost a lot of time. Now I¡¯m under the gun.
Michael
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On Jun 29, 2024, at 10:31?PM, Tom Trees via groups.io <tomgwoodworks@...> wrote:
?I wonder how many dud blades got sent out, or if that was a one off kinda thing, as seemingly there wasn't a
strikingly evident issue there,
so perhaps this might be mentioned in the coming weeks or months if the former.
I suppose there would be way too many other variables at play to come to such a conclusion really...
and we won't hear of any issues with things like that.
I'd certainly hope not, and doubt it, not at the cost of those evidently excellent blades,
such instances would be mentioned before,
especially since most often the only ones who post resawing results, are those using carbide,
so this surely would have cropped up on a few bandsaw threads before.
Not that I have searched, as I'm too skint for such toolery.
All the best
Tom
Bill Belanger