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3rd February 2020, 09:40 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Hare and Forbes band saw with blade cutting askew
G'day all,
I thought I'd share my experience with my recent purchase the Hare and Forbes BS-4A band saw.
Assembled the saw, as per the instructions and proceed to cut 100mm X 5mm SHS. Worked okay. 1mm out of square. For what I was doing was okay. Anyway long story short the blade got wrecked. So I swapped it out with a new one. It probably did no more than 30minutes and it started cutting askew, big time! away from the vice. (See below look at all those cuts, its like a spring now) So for the best part of 5 hours over Saturday and Sunday I tried: adjusting the guides so much so that the blade was twisting towards the vice. I used my engineers square to check that the blade was square to the vice. Checked the blade run out over 6inches to see if the pivot arm was damaged. Adjusting the tension. Deburring the 100mm x 5mm SHS. I probably did all those things at least 3 times each.
So at this stage I did my research on the internet and compared with what others had done on their Harbour freight, Jet, Saber. Nothing that I havent done at least 3 times.
I seriously though it was busted what did I expect, costing around $400. I was gearing up to return the thing and preparing for a fight. When I stumbled upon someone else with a similar saw said to change the blade. Seeing as mine had only done 30minutes I thought it was a waste of time. But I thought, whats the harm. So it did, set up 100mm x 5mm shs adjusted the guides and proceeded to cut.
It cuts square and straight!
I hope this helps other people if they ever buy a 4 x 6 band saw.
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