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Default Why no 3-wheel bandsaws?

On 11/15/2017 10:14 AM, William Falberg wrote:
replying to woodchucker, William Falberg wrote:
All the manufacturers realized this and stopped manufacturing them. Stopped
making"them"? The blades, or the three-wheelers?
The wheel radius or the cut radiuses? You're not clear on terminology.



The wheel radius is the problem, the blade has to bend too much around
the 3 smaller wheels and the blades prematurely fail as a result.