Breaking Blades

sandsawmill14 · March 07, 2016, 04:48:37 PM

this is what mine does when the blade breaks

sometimes they are kinked up worse when they wad up in the corner of guard instead of coming out the dust pipe

Kbeitz · March 07, 2016, 04:59:33 PM

I'll try to get a picture next time one breaks. One end sometimes sticks in the wood but
my blade so far has stayed in the box cover.

ncsawyer · March 12, 2016, 10:31:16 PM

Two more of the blades from that same box broke at the weld today. So far I have used 5 blades out of the box and 4 have broken at the weld. I am going to go back and look at the only one that didn't break and look at the weld and see if it shows any signs of weakness. I would hate to send it off to get sharpened only to get it back and it break on me.

My B57 belts have some damage from the 4 broken bands in a row and I have two new ones, but I sure don't want to put new belts on and only saw for an hour with new belts and have one of those bands break and ruin my new $44 worth of new belts.

4x4American · March 12, 2016, 10:34:06 PM

I got some 9° .045 blades to try out from WM and with it they sent an instruction sheet on how to property return blades that broke at the weld.

sandsawmill14 · March 12, 2016, 10:35:23 PM

ncsawyer call and tell them they should make them up with no problems

i broke 7 out of 16 last week but this has been an ongoing problem they had with a new employee grinding the weld to thin and they moved him and said the new box i just got should be good

4x4American · March 12, 2016, 10:37:24 PM

They didn't make up for my B57's!

ncsawyer · March 12, 2016, 10:39:06 PM

Quote from: sandsawmill14 on March 12, 2016, 10:35:23 PM
ncsawyer call and tell them they should make them up with no problems

Yes they will replace the broken ones. I just have to send the broken ones back. I am going to wait until I have used that whole box, so I can send all the broken ones back at one time. I'll probably have to buy a box of new blades to use while all those broken ones are being shipped and replaced.

Quote from: 4x4American on March 12, 2016, 10:34:06 PM
I got some 9° .045 blades to try out from WM and with it they sent an instruction sheet on how to property return blades that broke at the weld.

I was wondering how I was going to get them sent back....can you post the instructions?

sandsawmill14 · March 12, 2016, 10:41:39 PM

the belts are "normal wear and tear dude" :

:D :D :D

4x4American · March 12, 2016, 10:58:50 PM

Yea yea... :

...was hoping to get more than 10 min out of em :D oh well..I'll let that ship sail.

This is the best pic I can get of it.

4x4American · March 12, 2016, 11:01:37 PM

Pretty much cut it on each side of the weld 12" and cut out the ID tag. Put it in cardboard with the teeth facing in the most sensible direction, tape it, and ship it. It doesn't say though if you do this for each blade, or if you can put multiple blades together like this.

sandsawmill14 · March 12, 2016, 11:07:37 PM

4x4 it does suck that they wont help on the belts the last 3 weeks ive had to change twice and the broken blades are whats doing it >:( i have broke 19 or 20 out of 40 blades

4x4American · March 12, 2016, 11:13:24 PM

Good grief! I am hanging on to my weld broken blades until they fix the problem, otherwise I'm just gonna have to open an account at Napa lol

sandsawmill14 · March 12, 2016, 11:33:52 PM

our blades are not welded at the same factory im sure but mine assured me they have the problem fixed. guess i will know by the end of this week if this doggone rain ever moves east :-\