On 12/11/2016 10:15 AM, Brewster wrote:
On 12/10/16 12:27 PM, Leon wrote:
On 12/10/2016 10:10 AM, Brewster wrote:
On 12/9/16 1:27 PM, Electric Comet wrote:

recently broke a blade so bought one of these blades

http://www.carterproducts.com/band-s...and-saw-blades

they have guide upgrade kits that look good but


Carter has everything for pimping your bandsaw, but they have perfected
the pricing to always be on the edge of way too high, but low enough to
make you look...


-BR




And if you have never used roller bearing guides you might not be happy.
My old Rikon had roller bearing guides and they were noisy and created
a lot of vibration when oily/damp wood stuck to the bearings and was
pounded into the blade.

I returned the BS for that and tracking reasons and got a Laguna with
the ceramic guides. Ceramic guides will scrape your blades clean.


Good point!

I started with "Euro" guides. Hated them. I now have roller bearings,
mainly since no one made block/scraper style guides.

Roller thrust bearings are fantastic, the side bearings? Meh.

Fortunately I don't have issues with the crap getting pounded into the
blade/bearing race since the wood I cut isn't that ornery, but any kind
of scraper style guides would be superior in my mind. You get slightly
more resaw height, automatic cleaning of goobers on the blade, usually
easier adjustment, cheaper, etc.

-BR


don't you have an MM16? This would probably fit.

http://www.lagunatools.com/accessori...it-Euro-Guides