![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily, I am good friends with a "magician caliber" welder who repaired the broken area for beer. I got a "deal" on my first purchase of a Harbor Freight drop bandsaw back in the mid-1980's as something had punched a hole through the base. The blade guide ball bearings are often of "less than acceptable quality." (I paid $12 for 4 good quality ball bearings.) Reboring the pivot holes and installing bushings solves this relatively easily (you may have to add material to the base).Ĥ. The pivot bar about which the saw itself pivots is rarely parallel to the table - making the saw cut at a non-90° angle. A trip to the milling machine and some boring (replacing the poor screw pivot with a shoulder screw) solves this easily.ģ. The index angle is neither square nor well-fit to the pivot. A trip to the milling machine solves this easily.Ģ. The main index & clamp area of the saw is rarely flat. However, that said, there are steps you can take that will rectify that situation at a fairly low cost.ġ. The (relatively) cheap Chinese drop-bandsaws suffer from the same "quality workmanship" that other Chinese product suffer. Bandsaws are more complicated mechanism-wise. ![]() Power hacksaws are simpler mechanism-wise.
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