My bandsaw build. Redoing the lift and lower

[Kbeitz]

Most guides have a flange on the back to help hold the blade on if your pushing to hard. Maybe you could tack a large washer to your bearing.

[starmac]

Maybe it is my eyes, but it looks like that idler has a small flange on it, or is that some sort of backing plate i am seeing?

[Kwill]

Yeah it has a flange

[Wudman]

Thank ya. Wish I could find some shorter turnbuckles.

How about using a through bolt (or an eye bolt) instead of the turnbuckle?  You could still have your adjustment in a more compact package.
Wudman

[Ljohnsaw]

Thank ya. Wish I could find some shorter turnbuckles.

How about using a through bolt (or an eye bolt) instead of the turnbuckle?  You could still have your adjustment in a more compact package.
Wudman

Just make sure you use a welded eye or the weight might straighten it out!  Don't ask me how I know :

[Kwill]

The turn buckles I have are working ok.

[ktm250rider]

i go back and forth on building vs buying guides.  Currently im on the buy from cooks.  Yesterday it was build.

[Kwill]

i go back and forth on building vs buying guides.  Currently im on the buy from cooks.  Yesterday it was build.

Yeah same here. If I buy I'm gonna get them from woodmizer

[Kwill]

I wonder if a guy could take one of these alternator pulleys and grind the front flange off and use it for a guide


 

[Kwill]

 Dropped 130.00 at wood mizer today. Figure if I'm going to do it might as well do it right

 

[starmac]

I tend to think you will be money ahead with the factory guides, in the long run.
On a side note, I thought woodmizer had some sort of policy that you had to have one of their mills registered with them to buy parts. I know I have tried to look up some stuff on their website, but can not access all of it for some reason.

[Kwill]

I haven't had any trouble with there site. I went to our local woodmizer store and bought them

[Kwill]

Really didn't want to spend the money on them. I sold some stuff I had on Facebook and Craigslist over the weekend and made a little extra cash so it wasn't a big deal. 

[starmac]

I hear you, but like I said, it is likely money well spent in the long run.

I may be doing something wrong trying to access parts on their site, computers are not my strong suit

[Kwill]

I needed a 1/2 spacer or bushing and didn't have one. So I took a 1/2 nut and drilled it out. Worked perfect.

 

 

[Ljohnsaw]

Why did you need a spacer?  My Cook's came with one...

I drilled out my bolt and inserted a zerk so I can grease the bearings every day.  I drilled halfway through the bolt lengthwise and then halfway in the side so grease will squirt out between the bearings forcing the old grease out both the forward and leeward bearings.

[Kwill]

Mine are woodmizer not cooks

[Ljohnsaw]

You need to make sure the spacer is faced properly so that the front and back face are absolutely parallel.  Otherwise, you will be stressing the bearing by taking the center race out of alignment.

[Kwill]

Didn't do anything to the face of the nut.

[Kwill]

Done a little work on my blade guides today. I think they will work out ok. 


 

[jwh f-100]

Nice work.. 

I've been racking by own brain on guides.. still undecided.. 

[Kwill]

Thanks. Its trial and error. I Will see how they work out.

[Kwill]

Building some outriggers for my sawmill track trailer. Got 3 more to build


 

 

[Crusarius]

I am pretty confident that the base of that jack will never wear out or bend.

[Kwill]

Yeah a little overboard but it's what I had on hand