How Do You Tune Up A Band Saw?
“Hi, I’m Tim Gipson. I’m going to talk to you about how to tune up a bandsaw. Now, the most important thing with a bandsaw is definitely we want to make sure that we’ve got the right tension on the blade so that it keeps it at the appropriate angle to the table that we’re trying achieve. Now, to keep the right tension on, most of your bandsaws will come with a device such as this. Now you have various widths of band that you can put on of your blades. In this particular case we’ve got a quarter inch blade. So, you have a tension device back here which has a spring with a red mark on it. So, in this case we want to make sure that this tension is set so that that red mark on that spring is right at the marking on here. Now, another way we can check that is when we move our foot out of the way here, we could also press and check the deflection. And we want to have less than a quarter of an inch of deflection. So, in this case we can see we’ve got the proper amount of tension. Okay. Next t
