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glatt · 09-11-2016, 06:31 AM

I think I could have fed the wood into the blade faster. I was going slow because I was honestly terrified of the saw without an enclosure around those huge spinning wheels. So I put almost no pressure on the blade with my feed rate. I didn't want to upset the saw and have it tear my face off.

And as for the pulleys, I didn't have the right size for the speed I wanted, but it was going to have to be something like 6 inches diameter and pulleys that large were a bit more expensive on Ebay. I still needed to buy a pulley to go with my new $5 motor, but it was only $10 instead of like $25 for a giant pulley to go on the old motor. All that being said, I agree you want to adjust pulley size to get the speed you want.

09-11-2016, 06:31 AM	#232
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Building a bandsaw on the cheap from mostly scrap wood I think I could have fed the wood into the blade faster. I was going slow because I was honestly terrified of the saw without an enclosure around those huge spinning wheels. So I put almost no pressure on the blade with my feed rate. I didn't want to upset the saw and have it tear my face off. And as for the pulleys, I didn't have the right size for the speed I wanted, but it was going to have to be something like 6 inches diameter and pulleys that large were a bit more expensive on Ebay. I still needed to buy a pulley to go with my new $5 motor, but it was only $10 instead of like $25 for a giant pulley to go on the old motor. All that being said, I agree you want to adjust pulley size to get the speed you want.