Recent content by Griffin

Just to close the loop on this........... I ordered a new blade from Tuffsaw, 1/4 with 10TPI as suggested by Ian. Also got a 3/8 to try later. Started from scratch by loosening everything and following the guides suggested above. Slightly concerned by blade tension but after setting everything...

Really helpful thanks to you all, it is so nice to post on a forum and get nothing but positive answers instead of 'you're an silly person you've done that wrong or you've bought the wrong thing'. Had another go at setting it last night (before I read the very latest comments) without much luck so...

thanks guys. So in terms of thickness, nothing major at all, maybe a few inches, perhaps up to 4 (but not done that yet) and I'm only really messing about with softwood at the moment. Of course 'gullet' I knew that :-) With regard to adjustment, I said fence because it is the rail the fence...

Hi, I'm a new(ish) bandsaw owner and would appreciate some advice about set up. It's a new Record BS250 with the standard blade (I think 6mm?) but I just cannot seem to get it adjusted to work as well as I thought it would. After checking everything over and following the instructions in the...

Hi, I don't use 4" pipe as only have a shop vac but I did make one from a traffic cone which works really well and I cant see any reason why it wouldn't work with a larger diameter tube. I cant post links for some reason but if you search Youtube for "Street cone dust cyclone build-015" that's...