For hobby shop use and occasional resawing, it is just fine. To those who poo poo resawing on these machines I say poo poo 2 U. In fact, the saw runs better now than before I put the riser on. This machine is very stiff and the riser didn't change the feel or dynamics of the saw at all. It is solid, not webbed like the newer saws. Note the upper saw casting just above the block.
The motor didn't even seem to be working that hard. It sliced through it at a moderate feed rate with little difficulty. Tonight I put on a new 3/8" 3 tpi blade from Allblades Canada (a $12.00 blade) and tested the resaw on a 12" piece of oak. While I was installing the block, I fine tuned the saw and made sure it was co-planer and replaced the old thrust bearings in the guide block assembly. I figured that was there to fine tune the alignment of the blocks and I was thinking I would have to machine my rod as well. My original guide post had the bottom machined 7/8 round and that fit into a hex shaped hole in the guide block assembly. I got some 7/8 hex rod from metals supermarkets for $15.īuffed it up on the wire wheel,sprayed on some Top Cote and good to go. Mine was a tight fit for a 7/8 hex and the 15/16 rod would not fit through it. It was supposed to fit, but apparently my model was one of the rare ones where the castings in the saw were not machined large enough. Mine was hex, and the one in the kit was round. The riser block and blade guard stuff fit perfectly. I got the kit for $75 and figured I'd give it a go. Stumbled on a guy on kijiji selling a saw similar to mine and had the resaw kit separate. I have a project coming up that requires me to resaw some 8" boards, so I was scouring Kijiji for another bandsaw, hemmed and hawed about buying the Rikon 14", almost lost my mind and bought the Laguna, was on the verge of ordering the riser kit from Amazon, on and on.
Took the 1/2 horse that came off the saw and put it on my Beaver 3400.Īfter some cleaning tweaking aligning, the saw ran great. Added the Kreg fence (half price - sweet deal thanks Wally), and a 1 HP Doerr farm duty motor (also off Kijiji). I got it off Kijiji pretty bare bones for cheap. Here's my old 1966 Rockwell Delta bandsaw.
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