Something I’ve been putting off is to prepare another shaft, actually aluminium tube, to mount the upper wheel.
I bought a length of the above for the current bandsaw project because since I built the first 14” bandsaw in 2014 the 25mm steel tube I got from Masters only required minimal effort with emery paper to get the wheels to slide onto the tubing – RIP Masters.
Can’t remember the exact numbers from the digital calipers, the tubing 25.3mm and the 6205 bearing slightly under 25mm – something like that. So the tubing needs to be reduced 0.4mm, may not seem much but took a LOT OF EFFORT to get the lower wheel to slide onto it’s tubing or shaft.
Now we have to repeat the painful procedure for the upper wheel where I’ve been using some 25mm dowel up until now.
Back to the jig that I used for the making the wheels.
Like before took over one hour of filing & grinding to reduce the tube to a point where the wheel would slide on, thank goodness that’s done.
View from the back.
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