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J. Clarke[_4_]

In article , lcb11211
@swbelldotnet says...

On 8/1/2015 4:50 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
In article , lid
says...

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 16:15:10 -0500
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

I would say because of the length. Any particular blade is a given
thickness, the shorter it is the more it has to bend to coil and the
more resistant it is to bend. Anyway with my 150" blades it is
almost like uncoiling a garden hose, there is no urgency by the blade
to uncoil.

mine are 90 something inches
they are like a coiled snake

now all this talk of blades has reminded me that bandsaws used to have
a spot welder on them i think

or at least it was common to repair them
it seems material science has advanced to a point where the blades are
harder to break

The welder isn't there to mend an accidentally broken blade, it's there,
generally with a cutter as well, to facilitate internal cuts--you break
the blade, pass it through a drilled hole in the part, weld it, and then
do the cut.

I have never heard of that but it certainly seems reasonable. But all
BS blades start out as a very long blade that is not a continuous loop.
If they break that can be rewelded/repaired.

If you're a woodworker only you probably wouldn't have. That feature is
more common on metal-cutting bandsaws.