May be a useful alternative
Hi,
here is another way for cleaning gunk off bandsaw blades. I cut up some sappy pinus radiata at the weekend and at the end my blade had gunk hard crusted around the teeth and on the inside.
I took the blade off the bandsaw. I then put a brass wire brush wheel (50mm diameter) into my cordless drill, set the speed low and proceeded to wirebrush all the gunk off the blade as it lay along a 400mm piece of 100x50 in the vice.
The rotation was set so the wire brush went from the back of the blade to the front. Worked fine and took off all the gunk in under five minutes.
Someone else may have experience cleaning bandsaw blades in this way, so they could let us know if there are any downsides to this approach.
Paul