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ironman123:
I see you have the same Delta 3 wheel Bandsaw I have.  Had mine for ages, replaced rubber belts once.  Good saw.

I like your shop.  Lots more room than I have.

Ray

Mike R:
Pete,  The shaper is a "Delta Milwaukee" with a 2nd nameplate that says made by Rockwell?  Seems to me its has a bit of a confused identity but I do know its the same or very similar to the small 6" Atlas shapers.  I'll take a pic of the nameplate and post them up sometime...

Ray - yes the bandsaw has been good to me.  It does jam up and the motor spins without moving the blade but thats just me forcing the cut too much mostly.  Once I invested in good blades (welded up Starrett variable pitch) it cut much better too. Its amazing what a good blade/cutter will do for a machine or hand tool.  I'm a believer now after our shop foreman at my work gave me a couple of Starrett hacksaw blades to try - what a difference over the made in India/China blades I was using (same tooth counts - big difference in cutting!)

Mike

Don1966:
Mike I have a Delta 14" vertical Band Saw and a 93 1/2" blade. The problem I have is finding good metal cutting blades. I added a VFD to it for cutting steel, but like I said can't find good blades. Where is a good source for quality blades? I am really thinking of making some from blades I have for my 4x6" horizontal bandsaw.
I believe the reason I can not find good blades is because it was built for wood cutting and sheet metal cutting.
Any advice would be welcomed.

Don

Mike R:
Don,

I don't really have a "source" for you for the blades as I ended up with a bunch of blades through an accidental mixup at work.  The shop foreman there who was telling me about the better blades requested a quote for me for 2 blades.  I got the quote back in a day or too and thanked him, then sat on it for a while cause it seemed like a fair chunk of change to me (seems to me it was ~ $50 for 2 blades!). 
Well a couple of months pass and the next thing I know the shop foreman is handing me 4 bandsaw blades and telling me not to tell anyone he screwed up.  He just opened up the quote, assumed it was for the machine at work and ordered 4.  Being custom made they were not returnable.... :facepalm:

But the idea here is any local machine shop supplier should be able to make up a blade to your size (or order it).   In my case the type of blade I got was this (as printed on the blade

Starrett Intense PRO-DIE 1/2" (13mm) x .035" (0.90mm) x 10-14/P

The only part of that that I think I need to clarify is its a variable tooth pitch (10 to14 TPI) which really helps reduce resonance in thin cuts.  Too bad he didn't screw up and get some of the coarser pitch blades too - they would help when cutting big chunks of aluminum.

Mike

Don1966:
Mike thanks for the reply. I did look at Enco and they handle Starett blades. To cut aluminum use a wood cutting blade with large teeth. The one I have cuts brass and aluminum like butter. It is steel I have problem with. Starett has some tough blades but with a cost. I will order me some thanks.

Don

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