Hi all,
Like many of you, I have a 14" Grizzly band saw. I like it a lot, but one thing I've found is that I have the tracking knob (does it have a name?) bottomed out, and I'm not convinced my large resaw blade is centered on the wheel well. The limiting factor is that the jam nut is a wing nut, and the wings take up room!
So I said to myself, I need a little knurled nut in there instead. So I spoke to the machinist at work, and he would have made me a knurled wheel, but he also had some steel hex stock laying around. I figured a large hex is easy to grab by hand too. So he drilled and tapped a hole and cut me off a chunk. I then had to bring it back into work, because it turns out it's an M8 thread... But I got it! And I hit it with a generous amount of clear rustoleum.
So now it's on the saw, and I know the saw can adjust just a little more if I need to. Easy mod for anyone who feels they can't quite get their saw setup correctly.
Like many of you, I have a 14" Grizzly band saw. I like it a lot, but one thing I've found is that I have the tracking knob (does it have a name?) bottomed out, and I'm not convinced my large resaw blade is centered on the wheel well. The limiting factor is that the jam nut is a wing nut, and the wings take up room!
So I said to myself, I need a little knurled nut in there instead. So I spoke to the machinist at work, and he would have made me a knurled wheel, but he also had some steel hex stock laying around. I figured a large hex is easy to grab by hand too. So he drilled and tapped a hole and cut me off a chunk. I then had to bring it back into work, because it turns out it's an M8 thread... But I got it! And I hit it with a generous amount of clear rustoleum.
So now it's on the saw, and I know the saw can adjust just a little more if I need to. Easy mod for anyone who feels they can't quite get their saw setup correctly.
Benny