I just purchased the Jet 16" bandsaw and I'm perplexed. Today I swapped out
the 3/4" stock blade for a 1/4" and I discovered there is no adjustment for
the lower guides short of loosening the entire assembly, which is down right
frustrating once the table is mounted in order to have the blade track on
the center of the wheel. Am I missing something here?
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"If you are arrogant, who's going to care if you're the best?"
Since you had to remove the table to swap out the blade, you should have
made the adjustments to the lower blade guide and blade support bearing
before replacing the table.
Removing the table is easy. Lift out the table insert, unscrew the two
plastic lock knobs under the table; lift the table about 4 inches, give it a
quarter turn counter clockwise and pull it out.
Incidentally, the wheel doesn't go directly behind the blade. The back of
the blade should be about 1/64th inch in front of the wheel and about 1/8th
inch from the edge.
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I just purchased the Jet 16" bandsaw and I'm perplexed. Today I swapped
out
> the 3/4" stock blade for a 1/4" and I discovered there is no adjustment
for
> the lower guides short of loosening the entire assembly, which is down
right
> frustrating once the table is mounted in order to have the blade track on
> the center of the wheel. Am I missing something here?
> --
> "If you are arrogant, who's going to care if you're the best?"
>
>
you misunderstand.... the wheel I'm referring to isn't the back support
guide. Also, in order to remove the table, I'd have to remove the rails for
the fence since they protrude beyond the column. The easiest way I've found
so far is to remove the table tilt stop and tilt the table up and away from
the assembly. It's a real PITA and a piss poor design to boot.
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"If you are arrogant, who's going to care if you're the best?"