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Lower guide bearing help!
I've been restoring a Woodfast Junior 10" bandsaw, put everything back together last weekend and tensioned up the new blade.
I've been scratching my head over this. The lower guide bearing doesn't seem to line up at all with where the blade sits under tension. When I put the blade over the guide bearing and tension it, the blade tends to want to run off center. I could really use some guidance on this (pardon the pun!)
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I haven't set up a bandsaw before, so am a bit clueless but this doesn't look right at all to me - I can't see any way of lateral adjustment, and it's not as if the wheel diameter has changed. I can't for the life of me work out how this is supposed to work.
But what if Michael Fortune is right?
At the risk of being howled down, Michael Fortune, king of the bandsaw, owner of more than most of us have got toes and fingers, reckons you don't need bottom guides. At all.
The tracking on the top wheel and the top guides pretty much do all the work.
A sharp blade is the key and having watched boofheads create enough smoke to qualify for SummerNats as they try force hardwood through a blunt blade, well.