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Robatoy
 
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Default un-kinking a bandsaw blade?

In article , Dave Hinz
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Is there a good way to take a kink out of a 1" wide bandsaw (resaw)
blade? Not sure how it got there, and the usual suspects aren't owning
up to anything, but it's got the expected results in the cut quality.
How do I fix this, or is it trash?

Dave Hinz


If the radius of the kink isn't too sharp, beating it back with a few soft
strokes of a hammer will work. Hang the teeth over the edge of a flat 1" thick
piece of something hard.. like maple. That becomes your anvil. Now you have to
strike the kink across the whole width of the blade at once without striking the
teeth.
Put a socket, of approximately the same radius as the kink on the bumped out
side of the blade and gently hit it. Most bandsaw blade material isn't that
hard, comparatively speaking, in fact, I would try to bend it back by hand first.

As it is, it is worthless, no?