wrinkly1
Member
Hi all,
Bought a new Record BS250 bandsaw, have no experience of bandsaws so bear with me, bought a new 3/8" x 8tpi blade (Workshop Heaven) and Steves DVDs.
With a lot of info from here and the DVDs, I made sure the blade was running central, tensioned the blade, set up the guides and squared the table to the blade.
So time to start it up, stood well back, suitably equipped with glasses, ear muffs and a stick and pushed the start button, didn't realise it was running until I looked at the blade, pretty quiet, got a couple of pieces of off cuts (60 x 25mm softwood) and tried a cut, crossgrain, no problem, knife through butter springs to mind, ripped about 300mm, drift needs sorting but otherwise ok, but when I tried to resaw ?(is that the right term)
the thing started screaming worse than when I ask SWMBO for a cup of coffee.
Have checked the guide bearings all seem to run freely, after that I am lost any help would be gratefully received.
Regards Bob
Bought a new Record BS250 bandsaw, have no experience of bandsaws so bear with me, bought a new 3/8" x 8tpi blade (Workshop Heaven) and Steves DVDs.
With a lot of info from here and the DVDs, I made sure the blade was running central, tensioned the blade, set up the guides and squared the table to the blade.
So time to start it up, stood well back, suitably equipped with glasses, ear muffs and a stick and pushed the start button, didn't realise it was running until I looked at the blade, pretty quiet, got a couple of pieces of off cuts (60 x 25mm softwood) and tried a cut, crossgrain, no problem, knife through butter springs to mind, ripped about 300mm, drift needs sorting but otherwise ok, but when I tried to resaw ?(is that the right term)
the thing started screaming worse than when I ask SWMBO for a cup of coffee.
Have checked the guide bearings all seem to run freely, after that I am lost any help would be gratefully received.
Regards Bob