Julio Navarro
07-14-2006, 12:24 PM
How important is it to have balanced wheels on a bandsaw.
I dont mean copolar, or aligned, but balanced.
I read a description of balancing the wheel by marking the bottom of the wheel as it comes to a stop after spining (sans blade and handpowered, of course) if the wheel came to a stop to often at the same or near the same spot then the wheel is unbalanced.
Well, I looked at my Rigid 14" and it seems that they are out of balance. I tried to balance them by adding small weights to the wheel at the opposite side of what appears to be the heavy side(the side that hits bottom all the time)
So my question is, if I can make the wheels copolar, and the tracking is good on the blade, how important is the balancing?
Any thoughts, experiances,etc. is welcomed.
I dont mean copolar, or aligned, but balanced.
I read a description of balancing the wheel by marking the bottom of the wheel as it comes to a stop after spining (sans blade and handpowered, of course) if the wheel came to a stop to often at the same or near the same spot then the wheel is unbalanced.
Well, I looked at my Rigid 14" and it seems that they are out of balance. I tried to balance them by adding small weights to the wheel at the opposite side of what appears to be the heavy side(the side that hits bottom all the time)
So my question is, if I can make the wheels copolar, and the tracking is good on the blade, how important is the balancing?
Any thoughts, experiances,etc. is welcomed.