Building a bandsaw on the cheap from mostly scrap wood

[glatt]

5/29/16 part IV

I tried to put the blade on, and was unable to do that. The frame wouldn’t lower far enough to give me the blade slack I needed. My bolt was too short. I needed a longer one. So to just make do for this test, I removed on of the leaf springs. That meant I could make do with a shorter bolt for now.


The blade seemed happy with this inner tube tire. I adjusted the tracking by turning the bolt in the bearing block which bears against my old hacksaw blade on the frame. It worked well. The blade is right on the crown of the wheel.


The two leaf springs, however, were not happy. They needed their third buddy. I needed to get a longer bolt. But it’s neat to see how far they can flex without breaking.


I spun the wheel by hand, and the blade stayed nice and centered on both the top and bottom wheel. It seemed to track well. So I grabbed a popsicle stick piece of wood, and I CUT MY FIRST WOOD ON THE BAND SAW!!! Just held it against the blade after spinning the wheel by hand and getting it going.