I picked up this bandsaw a bit ago and am finally checking it out. I didn't really do a close inspection because these don't come up too often near me anyway and it was coming from a working woodshop where the guy recently retired.

Annnyyyyyway,

The blade flutters like crazy. Put a new blade still does it. The upper guide especially looks homemade on the mounting system. I'm wondering if that's part of it. The lower guide has bad pads that need to be replaced as well


Can someone post photos of oem / proper aftermarket guides? There's something that seems wrong about this... but I'm not sure what the proper solution would be exactly.

I guess I'll have to buy a tension meter because the one on the machine isn't accurate ? Something isn't working right.

The blade runs against the axial bearing and I can't back it up. Normal for this size machine ?