Thread: Bandsaw tuning hell. Please help!

Hi all

Thanks for your comments and messages.

I have some good news, NCArchers visit to my workshop appears to have been a success! I have been very busy so have only had a chance to do a quick test yesterday, however it appears that the bandsaws days of wandering off the line have finished and I have put the petrol and matches away

A huge thank you to everyone for your suggestions and of course to Tony for solving my dilema and keeping me sane...well saneish. I really appreciate it

I suppose you all want to know what was wrong,...thankfully as hoped it was quite simple, a definite lesson in lines and adjustment.

When I pulled the vertical rise shaft out to clean it although I thought I put it back in straight. I didn't! From the top of its run to the bottom, it would run out by about 7mm. So what I was doing was I would set it (guides etc), then adjust the height to suit the height of the stock I was cutting and due to it not being square this could then allow the blade to deflect and run off the rear bearing and then put pressure on the guides. I hope this explanation makes sense. When Tony pointed it out, it was so XXXX obvious!

Upshots, I now know my bandsaw better than I know myself, the awesome WWF helped and allowed me to meet a nice bloke and fellow woodworker and I will never make this mistake again!

I picked up a second hand Minimax table saw over the weekend,...let's hope I can get this one up and running easier than the bandsaw!!

Cheers

Cam