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What will get damaged?
So today I finally made the trek out to Henry Bros. To pick up the new 1” resaw blade. When fitting it, I discover that it has to be back from the front edge of the top wheel to allow the door to close 😳. So this required me to adjust the bottom wheel tracking to take the blade back on it too. Above the 4 adjustable bolts for the bottom wheel is a big warning sticker telling me not to adjust the tracking unless instructed by a technician 🤷🏼♂️ In three or four languages also, just in case. It states that “ severe damage could occur to the saw”, I for the life of me cant work out what that damage might be, any ideas gurus?
I set the blade up, set the guides, and resawed about 80 metres of 200x50 rosewood in less time than it took to put the blade in and set it up.
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I've adjusted the bottom wheel of my bandsaw using the 4 adjustable bolts to fix a tracking problem that it had when delivered to me from the seller.
I did have to look at the problem and work out what the adjustment would be. I then devised my own procedure and followed that to get success - I think that having a procedure to follow is what is meant by "instructed by technician".
I'm fairly sure that on the Internet there will be instructions, and hopefully a YouTube video that is quality (and not just an enthusiastic gung-ho guy having a go).
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Short of the blade falling off and possibly chewing up some guarding, I can't see much potential for damage to the saw. It might damage your underpants though :p
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Yeah, there’s plenty of stuff on the YouTube isn’t there? I have no problem adjusting any machine and getting it running well, I just couldn’t get my head around why they would put a dirty big sticker there telling you not to adjust adjustment bolts? Anyways it is in the book that comes with the machine(which of course I read much later) and it’s actually quite detailed, with expected warning paragraphs. The main issue I had on this particular saw was that if you tracked the blade as per all the “ experts” , then the top door would not close as it swings very close to the outer edge of the top wheel. I might send an email to Rikon when I feel niggled enough about it, they have been excellent in their follow up service, even pointing me in the right direction to get some touch up paint for a bit of damage sustained in transport.
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It's probably a 'catch-all' item to prevent people trying to adjust it without help from a tech.
The problem with a trouble-shooting guide in a book is it only covers the most common problems. Sometimes the fault is elsewhere and following the guide ends up exacerbating things.
Plus, no matter how simple something is, there will always be some dill who'll fiddle with things pointlessly then complain that it's broken.