George Farra
01-22-2012, 9:10 AM
Hi Everyone
My bandsaw got delivered on friday and spent time yesterday on assembly and set up....this is my very first bandsaw so this maybe an elementary question :). I beleive that Rikon ships this saw with a 5/8" blade. I derived that simply by measuring the width of the blade without taking the teeth into consideration....is this proper? With the teeth it was larger than 5/8 but under 3/4 and I noticed that the tension scale had those 2 incerments....so common sense kicked in.
Onto the tension scale...not so elementary. I needed to make an adjustment to track the blade and somewhere I must have gone wrong as I found that I had released tension and I was attempting to track the blade. Reapplied tension and the guage read around 3/8 so I assumed I had to retighted. As I was retightening the guage was not moving and thats when I noticed that the yellow pointer has a slot that fits a pin on the spring assembly. The pointer was no longer connected to the pin. Additionally, the bracket that holds the pointer was loose so it moves freely up and down since the mounting holes are elongated.
How do I get this set back up correctly so that I can guage blade tension? The manual leaves much to be desired but assembly went well and overall setup wasn't that bad. I'll get picks up of my new toy shortly.
I've read The Bandsaw Book and I understand the potential false positive these indicators can lead to but at the same time it still gives me some reasonable assurance that I'm in the right ballpark.
TIA
George
My bandsaw got delivered on friday and spent time yesterday on assembly and set up....this is my very first bandsaw so this maybe an elementary question :). I beleive that Rikon ships this saw with a 5/8" blade. I derived that simply by measuring the width of the blade without taking the teeth into consideration....is this proper? With the teeth it was larger than 5/8 but under 3/4 and I noticed that the tension scale had those 2 incerments....so common sense kicked in.
Onto the tension scale...not so elementary. I needed to make an adjustment to track the blade and somewhere I must have gone wrong as I found that I had released tension and I was attempting to track the blade. Reapplied tension and the guage read around 3/8 so I assumed I had to retighted. As I was retightening the guage was not moving and thats when I noticed that the yellow pointer has a slot that fits a pin on the spring assembly. The pointer was no longer connected to the pin. Additionally, the bracket that holds the pointer was loose so it moves freely up and down since the mounting holes are elongated.
How do I get this set back up correctly so that I can guage blade tension? The manual leaves much to be desired but assembly went well and overall setup wasn't that bad. I'll get picks up of my new toy shortly.
I've read The Bandsaw Book and I understand the potential false positive these indicators can lead to but at the same time it still gives me some reasonable assurance that I'm in the right ballpark.
TIA
George