Dan and Bill, Thank you bothfor your input. If I were to get 5 woodworkers together and ask a ww-related question, I'd get at leats 6 opinions! LoL!! Mac -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Mar 22, 2023 7:57 AM To: Legacy Ornamental Mills <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Re ShopSmith topic
I have had ShopSmith bandsaws in my shop as long as I've had a wood shop, which amounts to over 50 years, IIRC. Until I got a big bandsaw about 15 years ago (which has bearings) the ShopSmith did everything but resaw work. Now the SS does the finer work. Having set the scene, I have no ambition to put bearings on the little saw. I wear the teeth off before anything else happens and I don't notice the blade getting hot. I've had the current saw some 40 years and have yet to change out the blocks. Set correctly and used gently, they last nigh on forever. IMHO bearings on a small saw are over rated, so it's a matter of personal preference. It's really hard to imagine how bearings would work on a 1/8" bandsaw blade. DanK On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 1:31:59 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: Brigitte I don’t have a shop smith but I do have the carter blade guide rollers on one of my band saws A very good product much better than the blocks I won’t ever go back. for all things bandsaw Alex Snodgrass is the man Here he is showing you how to set up your roller guides from carter products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGbZqWac0jU&t=199s&ab_channel=thewoodworkingshows I hope that helps Bill From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brigitte Graham Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2023 9:18 AM To: legacy-ornamental-mills <[email protected]> Subject: Re ShopSmith topic Hello Everyone, If there's no objection, I'd like to talk to your collective ShopSmith heads!! Have any of you tried the roller bladesaw guides from www.carterproducts.com (http://www.carterproducts.com) (www.carterproducts.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=+shopsmith+bandsaw+guides (http://www.carterproducts.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=+shopsmith+bandsaw+guides)) as an upgrade from the solid cool blocks SS are supplied with? Thanks for your time Legacy Widow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/legacy-ornamental-mills/6b0d3275-e6bc-05fc-b863-355cb95b8ee1%40earthlink.net.
