New blade issue

TroyC · October 16, 2021, 07:53:10 AM

Put a new Timberwolf on the EZ 40 yesterday to finish off a cedar slab. Made a skim cut and saw one tooth was leaving a really deep trail about every quarter inch. First time I had a new blade with a tooth that far out. Put my resharp back on and finished with smooth cut. I am careful handling blades so I don't think I bent it.

I've used about 8 blades out of 15 I bought with the mill. I don't have a setter ( yeah, I know) so I just sharpen a few times and retire the blade. I'm a hobby Sawyer so it's not really worth the setter. Cost of a setter would buy me a lifetime of new blades.

I'm just wondering how often new blades are out of set that bad. Hopefully this was a one in a hundred thing.

ladylake · October 16, 2021, 08:04:38 AM

Just find the bent tooth and bend it back, stuff happens. Steve

Jeff · October 16, 2021, 08:05:28 AM

Well, if this was me, I'd much sooner bet that I did something in one of my many moments of in attentiveness that snagged a tooth. That would bring the odds down from 1 in a hundred to almost even. What Ladylake says.

Southside · October 16, 2021, 08:18:11 AM

Cedar is notorious for hiding sand, rocks, tools, and missing children in the bark inseams. It's quite possible you hit something just as the band entered the log.

SawyerTed · October 16, 2021, 08:22:30 AM

A tooth that far out should be easy to see. A piece of 3/4" or 1" flat bar with a notch in the end makes a good tooth adjuster. The notch can be cut with a 4" grinder with a cut off wheel. The notch only needs to be 1/4" to 3/8" long and 1/16" wide. Pliers work but I don't find them as easy to make fine adjustments.

TroyC · October 16, 2021, 08:25:54 AM

If I hit something it was at the beginning of the cut.

I read somewhere on the Forum about a set checker. Any quick ideas on checking blade on saw? I tried to find wayward tooth but was not successful.

LeeB · October 16, 2021, 09:31:29 AM

A digital caliper can be had cheap enough.

maple flats · October 16, 2021, 10:50:47 AM

The marks it left, were they lower or higher than the rest of the face? If lower, look for the culprit in that direction on the band, if it was higher look on the top.

maple flats · October 16, 2021, 10:55:10 AM

Even a basic tooth setter will do the job, even flea bay has some for under $40, but you could study them and make one for even less.

ladylake · October 16, 2021, 02:58:44 PM

If it's that nasty you should be able to see the bent tooth by holding it up to the light. To get marks every 1/4" you'd have to be sawing really slow. Steve

YellowHammer · October 16, 2021, 05:54:30 PM

Leave the band on the mill, get an adjustable wrench like a crescent, tighten it to where it just clears the correctly set teeth and drag it down the band. When it hits the over set tooth, it will tell you. Then put the tooth in the wrench jaws and tweak it straight. Very easy, very fast, very common. Or just use the gap in the jaws as a tooth set checker.

Stephen1 · October 16, 2021, 05:59:45 PM

I will drag the band through my fingers backwards and can usually feel when there is 1 that far out.

TroyC · October 16, 2021, 06:40:50 PM

Thanks everybody! Will do the crescent trick tonight. The bad tooth cut downward into the cant. I didn't take a lot of time to find it, just changed blade out. First new blade I had act that way.

kelLOGg · October 17, 2021, 05:45:35 AM

Here's what I use to straighten teeth.

LeeB · October 17, 2021, 10:20:08 AM

The cresent wrench idea is pretty good. I'll have to remember that one. I would think you would need a better quality one to avoid slop.

customsawyer · October 17, 2021, 10:55:26 AM

If you can't find it bring it by the mill and we will find it together. Call first as I'm going to Moultrie one day this week.

SawyerTed · October 17, 2021, 04:21:18 PM

Thread hijack! Moultrie as in the lake?

JoshNZ · October 17, 2021, 04:37:21 PM

Quote from: LeeB on October 17, 2021, 10:20:08 AM
The cresent wrench idea is pretty good. I'll have to remember that one. I would think you would need a better quality one to avoid slop.

That's what I thought, most of my crescents have a bit of slop. I'm looking forward to trying this, Ive never been able to find a rogue tooth by feel.

btulloh · October 17, 2021, 04:59:14 PM

I've found that a metric crescent wrench doesn't work as well as an SAE crescent wrench for this.

LeeB · October 17, 2021, 07:33:11 PM

:D :D :D :D

Southside · October 17, 2021, 07:45:40 PM

Thought you had a bum knee? :D

SawyerTed · October 17, 2021, 08:11:14 PM

Trying to live vicariously! :D

customsawyer · October 18, 2021, 06:18:28 AM

Moultrie is the name of a town in GA. where they host a annual Ag. show. It will go on Tue., Wed., and Thur. this week. It has always been hosted in the middle of the week. Rumor is that they started it in the middle of the week so the farmers could get out there and see what they needed to see without tripping on the city folks getting in their way. They will have everything for cooking stuff to work dog shows, to plowing and haying demos. Plus sawmills, wood splitters and logging equipment. Before covid you couldn't see it all in three days. Not sure how it is going to be this year. Used to be a group from the forum that would meet up down there and camp.

caveman · October 18, 2021, 07:05:00 AM

It has been a long time since I've attended the Moultrie AG Expo. Years ago, we would leave school at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning with our ag kids loaded in a bus and spend the day up there looking at everything. It was phenomenal and also made for a long day.