| Project by bowtie | posted 245 days ago | 1533 views | 5 times favorited | 6 comments |  |
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A quick tensioning lever for my Craftsman 12 ” Bandsaw. I pull the lever and insert wedge to lock, when detensioned the wedge hangs by blade as a reminder to tension.
Warning!!!!!!!!
their is a lot of tension on the spring your compressing.
mine is built from hickory, handle must be tough, steel would also be a good choice.
this has the potential to be a real knuckle buster!
-- bowtie,.....jus passin thru.... cccedar.com
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Monte Pittman
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#1 posted 245 days ago
It’s not a good project unless i leave blood on it somewhere :-)
Aways nice to be able to give it that little extra tension sometimes.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
jaykaypur
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#2 posted 245 days ago
great idea. good job.
-- Use it up, Wear it out --------------- Make it do, Or do without!
a1Jim
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#3 posted 245 days ago
cool idea good job
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gfadvm
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#4 posted 245 days ago
That’s a pretty crafty solution.
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
ALA_Pete
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#5 posted 245 days ago
Plan to put new tires on my saw, tomorrow. Will be using your idea, as part of the re-do. Thanks!!!
apbeachy
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#6 posted 243 days ago
Looks good, going to adapt the idea to fit my saw.
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