Bought an old horizontal/vertical metal band saw of unknown make, likely pretty old, seems to run good now. It was a mess, but I took it mostly apart, cleaned and lubed, reassembled, adjusted as best as I could figure out, and it cuts real well, square to well inside of 1/32".
Only problem is on thin wall tube sometimes the blade will stop. It's a fairly fine tooth blade. I suppose it could have something to do with metal wheels on metal blade, maybe this is to be expected. On thicker material it cuts very smooth.
I tensioned the blade as much as seemed prudent with the hand wheel,it used to stop a lot, now it hangs up only on 1/16" material just as it enters the vertical component of the square tube. So now I'm wondering, how tight is tight enough and how tight is too much on that blade?
Only problem is on thin wall tube sometimes the blade will stop. It's a fairly fine tooth blade. I suppose it could have something to do with metal wheels on metal blade, maybe this is to be expected. On thicker material it cuts very smooth.
I tensioned the blade as much as seemed prudent with the hand wheel,it used to stop a lot, now it hangs up only on 1/16" material just as it enters the vertical component of the square tube. So now I'm wondering, how tight is tight enough and how tight is too much on that blade?