I have their 14" wood/metal bandsaw. Overall I have been happy with it
cutting wood and aluminum. The manual speed control is a little cumbersome
to use, but it does the job. The motor belt tension is set by the weight of
the motor hanging down and I found this wasn't sufficient. I added a 40 lb
brick of lead and that fixed the problem. The rip fence option works
suprisingly well and I would recommend getting it if you don't have another
way of ripping. Their design as far as dust control goes, though, is a joke.
I had to make many mods and do a lot of sealing and it still isn't as clean
as my 25 year old craftsman that I replaced. Now that I read what I just
wrote, I guess I'm pretty tolerant of imported tool quality since I usually
can't afford better. I consider them an assembled kit of parts with a pretty
good starting point toward becoming a useful tool.


"Robert Scibienski" wrote in message
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Any of you people out there have any experience with this mfg.?
TIA
Bob S.