They looked at the broken weld pic I sent and are sending me a new one for free tomorrow. I like quick action !
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Broke a bandsaw Blade -but what cause?
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Re: Broke a bandsaw Blade -but what cause?
I am glad they took care of this for you. Good companies usually stand behind their products and take care of their customers. Hopefully the replacement will be trouble free for you.
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Re: Broke a bandsaw Blade -but what cause?
It's always the weld. Always except when it's not, but those other cases aren't conveniently identifiable like a broken weld. Improper annealing makes sense as a cause for weld failures, or just a bad weld. If it's not a custom blade I'm sure it was made by a machine, and probably only samples receive any testing.
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Re: Broke a bandsaw Blade -but what cause?
So...I was busy doing some resaw cuts to make a few more reindeer this season when I heard a grumbling sound coming from the bandsaw-almost like a low chattering and was picking up some vibration thru the board itself.
After shutting down and doing some inspection, I found that atleast 1 of the bearings on my Carter guides (installed over a year ago) is near, but not completely seized. I can force it to turn, but takes some effort whereas the other 3 guides spin freely.
So now I'm wondering if that bearing was going bad and momentarily pinched on my blade-causing it to break-the original reason for this thread ?
Anyways- im going thru the motions to replace the bearings with Carter and learned a few things :
1) Carter does not offer the threaded shaft+washer+dual bearings as a sub assembly. For a complete set you need 4 of these (2 bearing subassemblies for the upper guide, 2 for the lower guide) As each is a dual bearing assembly-this means there are 8 bearings in the complete set.
2) You can get the bearings alone from Carter (XG-BRG-R32RS Bearing $9.00)
3) Carter offered me (if I would buy 4 bearings $36.00) to include the extra hardware to complete the subassemblies myself (threaded shaft+washer)
4) Actually-they just called back and told me that the bearing and rod assembly is press-fit...so they will do that for me and I should just have to screw in the new sub-assembly
I'll let you know how taking them apart/re-assembling goes once they arrive.
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After shutting down and doing some inspection, I found that atleast 1 of the bearings on my Carter guides (installed over a year ago) is near, but not completely seized. I can force it to turn, but takes some effort whereas the other 3 guides spin freely.
So now I'm wondering if that bearing was going bad and momentarily pinched on my blade-causing it to break-the original reason for this thread ?
Anyways- im going thru the motions to replace the bearings with Carter and learned a few things :
1) Carter does not offer the threaded shaft+washer+dual bearings as a sub assembly. For a complete set you need 4 of these (2 bearing subassemblies for the upper guide, 2 for the lower guide) As each is a dual bearing assembly-this means there are 8 bearings in the complete set.
2) You can get the bearings alone from Carter (XG-BRG-R32RS Bearing $9.00)
3) Carter offered me (if I would buy 4 bearings $36.00) to include the extra hardware to complete the subassemblies myself (threaded shaft+washer)
4) Actually-they just called back and told me that the bearing and rod assembly is press-fit...so they will do that for me and I should just have to screw in the new sub-assembly
I'll let you know how taking them apart/re-assembling goes once they arrive.
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