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Yes, it's that circlip that is used at the end on the bandsaw wheel, so it doesn't fall off the shaft. No prob Mike, I will buy from ebay, thanks anyway.

I checked on the upper wheel, there is an external one. If the shaft is 10 mm, probably that means that the recess is 9 mm?

I found them on ebay, typing "Snap Retaining Rings Circlip Fastener ", there are internal and external, what's the difference? And can I mount them without pliers?

Hi, I have lost the ring clip for the lower wheel of my bandsaw, which is a SIP 01545, 10". It has been discontinued, and SIP doesn't sell these replacements. Do you know where can I find them? The diameter of the shaft looks like 10 or 11 mm.

Thanks Roger. Do you think you can use better fence on the metabo, for example the ProGrip Aluminium Bandsaw Fence. And what are the best blade for 60mm thick maple?

I like these two because they are quiet, and not too expensive, the Axminster TS-200-2 is £350, theMetabo TKHS 315 C is £250. Which one would you suggest?

Tired of experiments, hehe, I learnt anyway that Tormek has to be slow, and trying to use rouge compound is useless at that speed. I was always intrigued by how fast it is to sharpen tools with a low speed grinder, like in these two clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lliGsi6XbbE...

I do it sometimes, the problem is that it takes a lot of time and effort.

You mean increase the diameter of the motor or the drive wheel spindle? There are two splindles in the tormek, one is the motor spindle (which runs at about 2800 rpm), the other is the drive wheel (the rubber wheel, which runs at about 100 rpm). Let's not confuse the rpm with peripheral speed...

Hi, stupid question: if I make the drive wheel smaller, would the rpm increase? I am curious to know it, because I saw on youtube so many people using a dry grinder with the paper wheels, but to achieve that, you need at least an rpm speed that goes beyond 800. So I bought a TSO (Tormek shaped...