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[tmilham]

I always get "you are not allowed to access this section" when I click on someones user name. Is this working correctly?

[Ianab]

Profiles are only viewable by members that have made a few posts.

Make a few more and you will have access to the member profiles.

[John Mc]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, by the way.

[Dave Shepard]

Welcome to the Forum!

[r.man]

Welcome to the forum Tim, were you looking at me? Ask anything, I am an open book. An old musty open book.

[Magicman]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, tmilham.  Take some time and share some of your tree/sawing/lumber interest.   

[Seavee]

Welcome to the forum

[sandsawmill14]

welcome to the forum most would be happy to post a pic in the thread if you let us know your interest until you get your post count up

[tmilham]

Thanks for the big welcome everybody! I have been lurking on here for a few months after I bought a 1997 LT30E manual. I looked at everybody's mods for hydraulics and ended up fabricating my own turner/clamp combination, toe board, and backstops. Running off three phase with a used 3 horse hydraulic unit that I picked up. After completing it I put everything on hold for the last couple of months due to other priorities. Finally made my first cuts recently and really butchered that log! But i think I have everything fairly well figured out now. Seems that everything on my will was really out of alignment so I have spent the last few days going thru the Wood Mizer alignment procedure and think I have everything back in good shape now. At least until today when I realized that I have one 1" guide roller and the other one is 1 1/4". I guess I'll go ahead and give it a try until I can get the right roller for it. Actually I believe that when funds are available I will go ahead and get all new guide setup as these have seen better days on this 1997 model. Thanks again for everybody's comments.

[Chuck White]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, tmilham.

[Magicman]

At least until today when I realized that I have one 1" guide roller and the other one is 1 1/4".

I do not recall ever hearing about a 1" roller blade guide?   ???

[Jeff]

Why can't I see profiles?
I get emails from the forum contact page often with this question and I have a canned reply.

Because guests or new members without any participation have not earned the ability to do that. When you participate in the forum, eventually you earn the ability to see and do additional things.  We protect our member's privacy vehemently, so there is no way we will allow anyone to view profiles simply because they registered. Our members do not want to be spammed or solicited or spied upon. Much of this sort of activity can be prevented simply by making sure that other members have posted a few times so we get enough electronic information from them that we can permanently remove them from the forum if they were to try to use the forum for illicit purposes.

[tmilham]

At least until today when I realized that I have one 1" guide roller and the other one is 1 1/4".

I do not recall ever hearing about a 1" roller blade guide?   ???

That's what they measure across the face. I'm using 1 1/4 blades. Does anyone know what the guide measurement should be for these blades? The guide that measures 1 1/4 only leaves about an 1/8 inch of the teeth out from the face of it and it looks like there should be more than that to me. I even saw some faint sparks being thrown off from it so i'm thinking that the guide is actually rolling over the set causing this maybe. Maybe this guide that measures 1 1/4 across the face is to be used on a 1 1/2' blade? ???

[Magicman]

Answering your questions is sorta difficult without seeing a picture and without knowing if your blade in question has been sharpened many times and has has gotten much less than 1¼".

You need to go to the Sawmill & Milling board and start a thread to ask sawmill related questions.

[terrifictimbersllc]

At least until today when I realized that I have one 1" guide roller and the other one is 1 1/4".

I do not recall ever hearing about a 1" roller blade guide?   ???

That's what they measure across the face. I'm using 1 1/4 blades. Does anyone know what the guide measurement should be for these blades? The guide that measures 1 1/4 only leaves about an 1/8 inch of the teeth out from the face of it and it looks like there should be more than that to me. I even saw some faint sparks being thrown off from it so i'm thinking that the guide is actually rolling over the set causing this maybe. Maybe this guide that measures 1 1/4 across the face is to be used on a 1 1/2' blade? ???

I would say so, that 1-1/4" long rollers must be for 1-1/2" blades.    Just went out and measured mine, they are 1"  from the flange to the front of the roller using a tape measure.  I have lower guide blocks on my mill and they are flush with the rollers at the front.  Both rollers and guide blocks are nearly new from WM.  The old rollers which came with my mill were the same.  I use 1-1/4" blades. 

Because I sharpen my own blades and use a dial calipers to sort them by width, I know that my blades are usually between 0.93-1.00 inches from back to gullet.   From aligning and maintaining my mill I know that the back of the blade is 1/8"-3/32" from the roller flange.  The drive side flange-blade distance is always a bit less than that on the idle (guide arm) side.

The gullet, then, is usually about 1/8" forward of the front of the roller, when the band is tensioned and idle.     If the blade gets pushed to the flange during sawing (I don't know) he gullet would be at the front of the roller or up to about 1/32 behind it.  The gap between my guide and rollers is 0.008-0.010"   I suppose there could be times where the base of the tooth is tight in this gap because of set but not by much.  I too once in a while see sparks but wouldn't know where this is coming from.

Hope this helps.

[terrifictimbersllc]

@tmilham hoping you'll see the post above. 🇺🇸