Hi all,
I managed to buy via Ebay a 3 ph Startrite 352 at a very good price a short time ago. The blade was a bit iffy so I got a new 4 skip from Axminster and thought....here we go....workshop heaven!
But no, despite trying all sorts of combinations of tension/speed/feed rate etc I'm still having problems - ripping just a 2.4m length of pine 2" deep, the machine will cut out at least 3 or 4 times during the cut! Can't imagine what it would do resawing Oak - the purpose for which it was bought.
I thought these were the 'Bees Knees' of bandsaws ? - what part of the equation am I missing here ?
....a frustrated Chris,
I managed to buy via Ebay a 3 ph Startrite 352 at a very good price a short time ago. The blade was a bit iffy so I got a new 4 skip from Axminster and thought....here we go....workshop heaven!
But no, despite trying all sorts of combinations of tension/speed/feed rate etc I'm still having problems - ripping just a 2.4m length of pine 2" deep, the machine will cut out at least 3 or 4 times during the cut! Can't imagine what it would do resawing Oak - the purpose for which it was bought.
I thought these were the 'Bees Knees' of bandsaws ? - what part of the equation am I missing here ?
....a frustrated Chris,