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Iroko loco!
Why can't you adjust the entire guide assembly to the right again, please explain?
I can't see how you couldn't adjust this.
Agreed with sideways regarding tracking if those tires are crowned, which is very much highly likely.
That camber will determine the setup regarding getting your table parallel with blade
i.e
The fence to match/line up with mitre slot in table, for the preferred setup rather than mucking about with drift adjustment with the fence, should you get used to adjusting the table if you wish to make crosscuts with mitre fence.
On the small Inca and Kity saws they have flat tires, aswell as the much larger Italian machines,
but near every other saw comes with a crowned "rubber like compound" tires.
The way your blade is tracking now, will make it necessary to skew the table very much to the right, or fence if you prefer.
IMO large adjustments like this is asking for trouble with the wheel bore, which isn't easily repaired.
That is under the assumption that the tires are indeed crowned.
You likely can disregard the sentence below, as only mentioning for clarity sake, but...
If they were flat tires, then it's a different matter, i.e wide blades with teeth off the rubber,
or for narrower blades, keeping an eye on wear and adjusting accordingly.
Last but not least, if looking for work, you could check bore accuracy and/or alignment of the wheels with the table off, and using a beam.
And hope to the bandsaw gods, you don't find a discrepancy like below
(bore wear)
And instead have a single line, in which you can use to align the lower wheel to,
something like below is what you would like to see.
These ain't honest pictures of whats really happening below, as I haven't got my upper wheel bore sorted yet, but it illustrates what you would see, if the first test proved the bore was good.
Good luck
Tom
I can't see how you couldn't adjust this.
Agreed with sideways regarding tracking if those tires are crowned, which is very much highly likely.
That camber will determine the setup regarding getting your table parallel with blade
i.e
The fence to match/line up with mitre slot in table, for the preferred setup rather than mucking about with drift adjustment with the fence, should you get used to adjusting the table if you wish to make crosscuts with mitre fence.
On the small Inca and Kity saws they have flat tires, aswell as the much larger Italian machines,
but near every other saw comes with a crowned "rubber like compound" tires.
The way your blade is tracking now, will make it necessary to skew the table very much to the right, or fence if you prefer.
IMO large adjustments like this is asking for trouble with the wheel bore, which isn't easily repaired.
That is under the assumption that the tires are indeed crowned.
You likely can disregard the sentence below, as only mentioning for clarity sake, but...
If they were flat tires, then it's a different matter, i.e wide blades with teeth off the rubber,
or for narrower blades, keeping an eye on wear and adjusting accordingly.
Last but not least, if looking for work, you could check bore accuracy and/or alignment of the wheels with the table off, and using a beam.
And hope to the bandsaw gods, you don't find a discrepancy like below
(bore wear)
And instead have a single line, in which you can use to align the lower wheel to,
something like below is what you would like to see.
These ain't honest pictures of whats really happening below, as I haven't got my upper wheel bore sorted yet, but it illustrates what you would see, if the first test proved the bore was good.
Good luck
Tom
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