I bought a very old and well used bandsaw with bushed bearings and cracked, dry-rotted tyres. I replaced all the bushed bearings with cartridge ball bearings and tapped the guides to 7mmx1mm threads. Swapped the tyres out to blue Bandsawtirewarehouse tyres, added a dust port and the nylon screw to the upper guide rail. Put a 1/2" 4tpi starret blade on it. Powers through 6" Chechen resaw without problems. Dedicated resaw rig, life is good.
The blue tyres work, over on owwm.org nobody is having issues either....
Bandsaw trouble shooting
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1986 510, jointer, bandsaw, belt sander, scroll saw, jigsaw and lots of accessories. Shopsmith woodworking bench too!