Toni Ciuraneta
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I’m the ¿happy? owner of a bandsaw since March this year, so my experience in tuning it up is null, I’ve researched and bought a couple of books related with the subject and got some good tips from them.
So in order to get acquainted with it I performed several self training routines such as changing the blade, adjusting the guides, resawing stock etc. but now I’m experiencing a problem that I don’t know how to tackle.
When cutting thick stuff (about 3 inches) the saw makes a high pitch noise really disturbing that didn’t make before, this noise dissapears if I push harder. Some times makes it sometimes doesn’t. May it be blade wear? I do not think to have cut so much in order to have worn out the blade already.
I’ve checked everything and the only thing I’ve been able to find is that the lower wheel is not on the same plane as the top one, they are parallel but while the blade runs on the center of the top wheel it is runing near the outer rim of the lower one.
As I hadn’t touched the position of the lower wheel at all I wonder why this sound is appearing now, and not from the very beginning the saw was surprisingly quite noiseless even when cutting thick stock.
Any hint?
Thanks in advance
So in order to get acquainted with it I performed several self training routines such as changing the blade, adjusting the guides, resawing stock etc. but now I’m experiencing a problem that I don’t know how to tackle.
When cutting thick stuff (about 3 inches) the saw makes a high pitch noise really disturbing that didn’t make before, this noise dissapears if I push harder. Some times makes it sometimes doesn’t. May it be blade wear? I do not think to have cut so much in order to have worn out the blade already.
I’ve checked everything and the only thing I’ve been able to find is that the lower wheel is not on the same plane as the top one, they are parallel but while the blade runs on the center of the top wheel it is runing near the outer rim of the lower one.
As I hadn’t touched the position of the lower wheel at all I wonder why this sound is appearing now, and not from the very beginning the saw was surprisingly quite noiseless even when cutting thick stock.
Any hint?
Thanks in advance