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Re: Bandsaw

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Originally Posted by Dad1279 View Post
What's wrong with the cut? Perhaps it just needs adjustment. Also, if it is a belt drive it would be easy to slow down.
The cut was rough and the blades went dull very quickly. One of our mentors looked at the possibility of changing gear ratios, since it is a belt drive, but it would take a lot of modification to cut the speed down to a 1/10 of what it is now. Also some of the mechanisms to keep the blade inline were never great
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