Jeremy Carlsten Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 What is it matt says all the time in the podcast? "Fingers and thumbs don't be dumb" lol Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk You all would have laughed at me when I first fired it up by plugging an extension in on the other end of the room wearing leather gloves and safety glasses and a heavy leather winter coat(partly because it was cold). I am preceeding with caution. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 You might find some useful information here;http://vintagemachinery.org 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinF Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 What is it matt says all the time in the podcast? "Fingers and thumbs don't be dumb" lol Sent from my SCH-I545 using TapatalkYou all would have laughed at me when I first fired it up by plugging an extension in on the other end of the room wearing leather gloves and safety glasses and a heavy leather winter coat(partly because it was cold). I am preceeding with caution.I don't blame you at all. I've fixed many things and I always wear safety glasses and shield the boys the first time I power it up, no point in doing any irreversible damage! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Carlsten Posted December 9, 2015 Report Share Posted December 9, 2015 Last night I managed to make it out there and take a picture of the manufacturer I am having trouble making out the letters... but I believe it's The Silver Mfg company. Apparently they were only 5 miles from the crecent Mfg company and... 'borrowed' the design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carp Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Hi Joshua, Thanks for posting your work. Looks Great! I have a Powr-Kraft Montgomery Ward bandsaw very similar to yours. It was in pretty bad shape when I got it. But was working fine for thin wood. I recently started trying to do some simple refurbishing with the hope of using it for crosscutting, etc. I've had very little experience with bandsaws and I've run in to a couple a problem and I'm hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I started trying to refurbish by replacing the old tires. However, with the new tires the saw blades slips off, unless I crank the wheels out of coplanar. 'm going to try shimming like shown in this video below, but I thought I'd check to see if you've dealt with this problem too and had any advice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131AWsaFvKY Thanks, Joshua (also) p.s. I have the hardest time with the tensioning screw/spring on top. Just doesn't seem to give me enough room for blade replacements without significant wiggling/wear on the blades Have you modified/refurbished your tensioning system at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damon777 Posted January 3, 2019 Report Share Posted January 3, 2019 Did you crown the tires after you installed them? I assume you already checked here for a manual for your machine. Some digging on owwm.org may help as well. To contribute to the restoration of bandsaws, I did this 890 a few years back. My first machine resto. Before pic: After: I have better after pics around somewhere, just not here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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