My buddy and were prowling the scrap yard and came on a pretty decent (appearing!) 9x16 Peerless band saw..... It followed us home.
On examination after getting it home, found why is was scrapped --- both wheels were in pretty bad shape from bad tracking/overtightening the 1" blade --(we guess/think?) 1" seems overkill on that saw anyway. But, hey, we couldnt stand to see that saw go in the jaws of that crusher!!
After some consultation between he, I, and Lane we have decided that since the 13" wheels will clean up as is to accept a 1/2" blade and being in the home shop, that 1/2" should be fine,--- with the least aggravation also. Debated a good bit on a 3/4" blade, but it would have required a ton of additional work on the drive wheel -- build-up with weld, or make awhole new one, -- and all its taking on the existing one is a clean-up on the lathe.
So, in order to attain this goal, it is necessary to remove a pretty good chunk of the damaged area to get a nice flat spot for the blade to ride on, -- especially the drive wheel. The idler wheel will take less clean-up, bringing into question-- do we need the two wheels to be exact diameters?
We have decided to err on the safe side, and make them the same, but we are wondering, what is the thinking on this ... is it all that critical? We really cant come up with any plausible reason to have critical dims on them.....
On examination after getting it home, found why is was scrapped --- both wheels were in pretty bad shape from bad tracking/overtightening the 1" blade --(we guess/think?) 1" seems overkill on that saw anyway. But, hey, we couldnt stand to see that saw go in the jaws of that crusher!!
After some consultation between he, I, and Lane we have decided that since the 13" wheels will clean up as is to accept a 1/2" blade and being in the home shop, that 1/2" should be fine,--- with the least aggravation also. Debated a good bit on a 3/4" blade, but it would have required a ton of additional work on the drive wheel -- build-up with weld, or make awhole new one, -- and all its taking on the existing one is a clean-up on the lathe.
So, in order to attain this goal, it is necessary to remove a pretty good chunk of the damaged area to get a nice flat spot for the blade to ride on, -- especially the drive wheel. The idler wheel will take less clean-up, bringing into question-- do we need the two wheels to be exact diameters?
We have decided to err on the safe side, and make them the same, but we are wondering, what is the thinking on this ... is it all that critical? We really cant come up with any plausible reason to have critical dims on them.....
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