Van Huskey
12-30-2010, 6:51 PM
So I have been looking at a fully restored PM 141 (for those that don't know it is arguably the best 14" bandsaw ever made, makes the Delta look flimsy). It is from the Gumby Green with white racing stripe/red Powermatic era. I finally sent the guy a email and kinda hoped he had sold it since I had other ideas for a contour/dovetail bandsaw BUT he emailed back that he had it. Even with my wife's attitude about machines I figured I better mention it since it has only been a couple of months since she went with me to pick up my MM20 and she does know what a bandsaw looks like even if it is 1/3 the size. So I pulled up the "gorgeous" pictures and said I am looking at buying this but I am not sure, her response "how much is it" I told her and she said "you should get it, call him back". Later in the how lucky am I discussion she did mention that her response would have been different if it was $2,000, I suppose it makes sense because rarely are machine and under 2K in the same sentence from my mouth.
Now before I take the plunge I need to find out if it has the standard solid lower side blocks and if so how I am going to deal with them since I am not skippy about thin blades with them. Carter does have guide sets but $200 makes it less of a deal, but man it is pretty and ugly depending on your view point.
Now before I take the plunge I need to find out if it has the standard solid lower side blocks and if so how I am going to deal with them since I am not skippy about thin blades with them. Carter does have guide sets but $200 makes it less of a deal, but man it is pretty and ugly depending on your view point.