Craig Behnke
05-19-2013, 9:23 PM
i received a new felder fb510 bandsaw a few days ago. i was setting up the lower blade guide today and it just didn't seem right. my only experience with a high end bandsaw and the euro guides is getting to see a friends minimax mm20 in action and how to adjust it, so i'm not sure if this is an issue or not.
In the first picture, the black circle highlights that there is almost no room to make the adjustments on the side thrust bearings and the locking nuts. That just doesn't seem right that there is such a tight squeeze to get to the adjustments. The MM20 i've worked with has totally free and clear access to the guides.
In the second picture, you can see in the black highlighted circle that if you raise the lower guide, it will hit the flange highlighted with the yellow arrow. You can't raise the guides through their whole range of adjustability. And, the adjustability range maxes out pretty far under the bottom of the table so you can't get the lower guides close to the table.
In the third picture, it shows that if I do raise the guide to the upper range of its capability, I need to tilt the guide so it doesn't hit the flange, but the tilt makes the right guide out of line with the blade and I can't back out the right side of the guide far enough to make it work.
When I add it all up, it doesn't "seem" right but maybe it's normal to have all those issues. Again, I've only used a MM20 and it didn't seem to have those adjustment issues.
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In the first picture, the black circle highlights that there is almost no room to make the adjustments on the side thrust bearings and the locking nuts. That just doesn't seem right that there is such a tight squeeze to get to the adjustments. The MM20 i've worked with has totally free and clear access to the guides.
In the second picture, you can see in the black highlighted circle that if you raise the lower guide, it will hit the flange highlighted with the yellow arrow. You can't raise the guides through their whole range of adjustability. And, the adjustability range maxes out pretty far under the bottom of the table so you can't get the lower guides close to the table.
In the third picture, it shows that if I do raise the guide to the upper range of its capability, I need to tilt the guide so it doesn't hit the flange, but the tilt makes the right guide out of line with the blade and I can't back out the right side of the guide far enough to make it work.
When I add it all up, it doesn't "seem" right but maybe it's normal to have all those issues. Again, I've only used a MM20 and it didn't seem to have those adjustment issues.
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