Recent content by joemarkey6

Hi all, I just stumbled accross this thread by accident, I know its an old thread but i thought i would tell my experience for anyone else was looking for an answer to a similar problem. Weve got a record bs400 in our workshop and when it was reaching about a year old, our machine started...

hello everyone, im just in the market for a bandsaw in the same price/size range that your all discussing, can I just ask what every body thinks about the guides on the record? are they bearings or blocks or something else? and as anybody ever come accross the SIP 01444 as I like the look of...

Hi Lodds did you ever get a bandsaw? as im looking at the same machines as you were a few months ago, ive read all that I can find about the record, the axminster the scheppach and the Sip, but I havent really found any user reviews, but out of them all I like the look of the SIP. It would be...

ok great thanks

What about them saying it will only go down to 3/8" but they supply a 1/4" blade, whats the narrowest blade that you have used? Joe

Thanks for the reply, the reason i was looking at this one was the price/spec seems really good, its going to be used in a charity workshop so will probably get more use than a home workshop but less than a trade workshop, axminster give it a trade rating, do you think it would stand up to it...

hello Richard from axminster, can you tell me if you have any nearby barnsley that I could look at? thanks joe

Hi devonwoody, I realise that this is an old post but I just stumbled on it while googling info on the bandsaw that you bought. I just wondered what your views were on it now that its tried and tested? and did the tensioner problem ever get resolved? Does anybody else on here have this bandsaw...