"Ned Simmons" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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It's a metal cutting bandsaw, they don't have rubber tires and the
wheels don't need crowning.
The blade needs replacing before anything else.

Tom

What Tom said. The typical horizontal band saw has no crown, nor rubber
tire. They typically have a shoulder, against which the back of the
blade
runs. If the wheels are properly aligned with one another, the blade
will
stay in place. A tired, old blade often will come off time and again.
You can usually attribute the problem to minor dissimilar stretch of the
blade. Try a new blade before anything else.


Except the saw in question is a vertical. A new blade is still the first
thing to try.

Ned Simmons

Chuckle!

Trust me to jump to conclusions. :-(

Still, the new blade idea is the best one going. Well used blades often
start cracking from fatigue, even when the teeth are still sharp. With the
price of a new blade being fairly reasonable, it's a fast and easy way to
determine if the old blade was the source of the problem.

Harold