Shopsmith Bandsaw Maintenance: Greasing the Upper Wheel (How I Fold a Bandsaw Blade & Why I Don't!)

[Chad]

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SHOP NOTES: In this video, we'll cover the greasing of the upper wheel of the Shopsmith bandsaw, which in my experience is among the most easily forgotten maintenance of the bandsaw. It's so easy to do that there's no excuse for letting it go another week.

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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Needle bearings
1:20 - How is the upper wheel retained?
2:20 - Removing the blade
3:19 - BONUS! How I fold a bandsaw blade and why I don't!
5:15 - Removing the upper wheel
6:36 - Removing the old grease
11:22 - What you don't want your wheel to do
11:59 - How do we add grease and what grease should we use?
14:11 - Can you use White Lithium Grease?
15:39 - How to add the grease to the bearings
18:15 - Can you replace the bearings?

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[Chad]

My Growth Rings with Scott Markwood

SHOP NOTES: In the last video, we covered the greasing of the upper wheel of the Shopsmith bandsaw, which in my experience is among the most easily forgotten maintenance of the bandsaw. In this follow-up, we'll answer some of the questions about that process and show how to remove the lower wheel and bearing assembly. Here's that previous video: https://youtu.be/H1YPHGeYYC8

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - What about the bottom wheel bearing?
0:40 - Welcome new subscribers!
0:55 - No towels for you!
1:14 - Danger in using degreaser?
2:20 - You aren't alone if you've never greased the upper wheel bearings!
3:10 - Where's "Shaft"?
3:25 - What about replacing the bandsaw tires?
5:10 - Magnetic base LED sewing machine lights?
6:15 - Lubricate the blade guides?
7:14 - Link to needle bearings?
7:40 - Prepping for removal of the lower wheel & bearing
8:37 - Remove bearing retainer with 1/2" open-end wrench
9:50 - Tapping on the shaft with a rawhide mallet
10:14 - Examining the bearing assembly (water pump bearing assembly)
12:28 - A case for owning a rawhide mallet

The jury is out on which of these replacement bandsaw tires I will ultimately prefer, but if you need to get going on replacing your bandsaw tires, I will be installing and testing the orange tires from Shopsmith.com and the "Blue Max" tires from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3o2LPcM

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#hopsmithBandsaw #Shopsmith #ShopsmithBandsawMaintanance