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I recently purchased a DoALL bandsaw that had been converted long ago
from a band filer. When the new guides were fitted the upper guides
were mounted upside down. These are the typical guides that are angled
at the ends and when installed make a VEE shaped assembly. The point
of the VEE should be pointing up but these guides instead have the VEE
pointing down. Because of this chips get caught in the valley of the
VEE and are dragged by the saw blade into the tiny gap between the
blade and the guide. The blade is galled because of this. Furthermore,
the guides are only 3/8" thick and the saw takes 3/4" blades. So I am
going to change guides and I don't know which guides would be the
best. I will not be using roller guides. But there are new blade
guides made from different materials available now and I would
appreciate advice on which would be best.
Thanks,


DoAll can most likely help, strongly suggest give them a call.

If it's a horizontal, then likely it is supposed to have carbide-lined
guides--any reputable tool grind shop should be able to braze new carbide
onto a mild steel guide blanks that you've fabricated in-house.

It's very important to keep carbide guides well lubricated--wear occurs much
faster with water soluble coolant than it does with straight cutting oil.