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- From: golka@bnr.ca
- Subject: Re: Comments on Delta 16" Band Saw (28-560) please
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185425.27938@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
- References: <1992Dec7.181152.8054@mcnc.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:54:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec7.181152.8054@mcnc.org> pusateri@mcnc.org (Thomas J.
- Pusateri) writes:
- >
- >Woodworkers,
- >
- >I am in need of a bandsaw and have decided on the Delta 16" model #28-560.
- >It has a 1/2 HP motor and takes 82" blades from 1/8-3/8". I plan on
- >using this as a weekend woodworker. I do build furniture such as
- >kitchen sets, bedroom sets, bureaus and entertainment centers. I am trying
- >to find out if there are any big differences from this one to the
- >open stand version (28-245).. That one also sports a 1/2 HP motor,
- >blade lengths from 91 1/4-94" but that price is $150 more than the 16".
- >I know that the open stand model will take up to a 3/4" length blade.
- >I know that I won't be resawing wood as its primary purpose so the
- >blade length doesn't really concern me.
- >
- >Does anybody have comments on this machine and its three wheel design compared
- >to the traditional 2 wheel design.
-
- I have a 16" three wheeler. My biggest beef is that you have to skew stock
- about 10
- degrees when ripping, or resawing. This makes the fence useless, as the work
- wanders off
- the fence, or binds against it. It may be I haven't got the machine setup
- right. If anyone
- knows how to fix the, please post the secret.
-
- Beef #2 is that when resawing thick stock, or cutting lathe blanks, the blade
- bows
- in towards the left side of the saw. That is the blade at the middle of the cut
- thickness
- is about 1/4" to the left of the top and bottom guides. This gives a boards
- with convex,
- and matching concave cups to them. By the time you plane them flat, the
- effective saw
- kerf width is > 1/4"! Once again it may be a setup problem. If anyone knows ho
- wto fix
- this PLEASE post a reply.
-
- Thanks Bill Crick
-
-