bandsaw blade

[user 19915]

OOOOPPPPS i have done a silly thing and managed to twist my bandsaw blade while ripping timber so can i repair or take the twist out some how or just put it down to a learning curve
Mock

 

[Paddy Roxburgh]

Sorry but it's time to buy a new blade

 

[user 19915]

I was afraid you would say that

 

[sunnybob]

quick drive down to ian at tuffsaws, only 45 minutes away.

 

[user 19915]

And how do you know where i am living to know i only live 45 mns away have you been google in me lol >..Any way i do buy my blades from Ian over the phone . Can you just turn up at the work shop as it would be a nice to give him a visit
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[Steve Maskery]

I'd ring first.
I, very occasionally, get folks turning up unannounced. It's happened half a dozen times in a decade, perhaps. And while it's always Nice to have visitors, it really is, it's not always Convenient to have visitors. So buy your blades from Ian, collect them in person, but arrange it first, I'd say.

 

[user 19915]

Yes i would phone first and arrange collection as he got a shop or just the factory
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[Myfordman]

Visitor are nice but Ian is self employed and time is money. All the time you are nattering and drinking his tea, he can't be making blades to earn a crust. He might be too polite to tell you to Foxtrot Oscar but maybe be aware and not spend too long there.

My Dad used grow tomatoes. 1 acre of glasshouses, about 100 tonnes per year. People from village wanted to pop up, buy a pound of toms and have a natter. In the time taken over these sales he could grade 10s of pounds of tomatoes or whatever other jobs needed doing. In the end he put a box of mis-shapen toms in box by the gate and a sign saying help yourself so as not to lose money but keep goodwill.

 

[sunnybob]

And how do you know where i am living to know i only live 45 mns away have you been google in me lol >..Any way i do buy my blades from Ian over the phone . Can you just turn up at the work shop as it would be a nice to give him a visit
Mock

your little info box says youre near neath. ian is in ystrad mynach, easy peasy lemon squeezy. 8)

 

[user 19915]

Yes and yours cyprus just wondering if you were local and moved
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[sunnybob]

I lived in somerset for 30 years before moving here. From there, I had a job that took me to every town (and sometimes village) in the south west of england all all of south wales from newport to haverford west and right up to aberystwyth.

remember that song " I've been everywhere man"? That was me.