(Me 2. Somewhere in SS documentation it says untension. Don't know where, don't care.)reible wrote:... Keep in mind the gauge is a good starting point but sometimes you might want to adjust from that point and that can mess up your counting method....
And yes I still un-tension. I seem to recall reading that as pointer somewhere in the shopsmith documentation, PTWFE, manual (several versions of these) or perhaps a note on the back of the blade package???? I don't feel like looking now but I'm sure I've seen it somewhere.
...Ed
Coincidentally ran across similar discussion that makes another really good point. Many bandsaw users, maybe most, either at times or routinely, or mebbe for a special project, tweak the tension. The specific comment indicated it was a norm to add one setting to a blade install so as to get a better performance setting. Example, install a 1/8 blade and use the next highest or 1/4 setting. Struck me that this alone would be a good enough reason to UNtension at the end of work. (I might go a little further and say some folks don't trust their tension-o-meter, so who's to say your blade may be overtensioned at the seemingly correct setting anaway? And then there's the phase of the moon...)
