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I have cut soft metals, aluminum and brass, on mine using the normal blades for wood. For thin pieces it helps to back with wood.

Also check that the insert is fully seated in the back of the chuck. As I recall there have been reports of people having vibration issues due to that. The G3 manual I found on the Nova web site is pretty sketchy on mounting the insert, it is covered in more detail in the SuperNova2 manual SuperNova...

Ok, Bandsaw Questions: 1. How much play is acceptable in the wheels? I measure 1/32 wobble in upper and lower. With the blade off, the bottom wheel is quiet. Upper wheel has vibration when spun by hand. 2. The backing bearing closest to the tension assembly wasn't rolling until I fed it a couple dr...

Try balancing the rough blanks to minimize the bouncing.

Not a clickable link, but the last eight characters in the original post do go to a web site, that interestingly sells domain names, if keyed into a browser.

The 10E/ER's use a wooden bench instead of bench tubes, so definitely possible. You may get some ideas from this video. The subject used his Mark V to turn duck calls, so primarily lathe work, and had it mounted on a bench to facilitate working while sitting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MJS9jM...

There have been members who added additional bearings at the spindle end Some information in this thread, unfortunately the photos were not downloaded to this site and are no longer available. https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=4543 Another thread with more details and photos. https://forum...

You could also look into making a drum sander for thicknessing.
Member Shipwright made one
Build blog https://www.lumberjocks.com/threads/qui ... st-2198047

Video

Just saw this recently, looks similar to the one Ed mentions.