9fingers wrote:Fitting a larger motor to the right machine would be easy enough for a man of your skills dr Al.
Choose something with a beefy frame to be able to tension a 1/2 - 5/8” blade and an overall size comfortable in your workshop. Sounds like you don’t need a huge throat just a decent depth of cut.
Bob
Hmm, yes I guess that's true. Are there likely to be other issues (e.g. motor being two powerful for the machine in some way I haven't thought of yet) though?
It does, of course, make it a bit more complicated than just buying one and using it (although finding one to buy is proving to be enough of a challenge anyway!).
As an aside, in what way would I be likely to regret a more modern machine like a Record BS400? I get that with something like an engineering lathe, the quality of manufacturer inherent in a lot of older machines makes a big difference, but I don't know enough about bandsaws to know what the likely disadvantages of something like the BS400 would be. The reason I'm asking about that specific model is that there's a
second hand BS400 on ebay in Hereford and I've heard of another potential second hand one in Brum, so there may be some good options for this machine if it's likely to be any good. If I'm going to quickly regret buying modern, then I'd obviously like to know that before making the mistake, but I'm still not clear on what the problems are likely to be (and whether they would be resolvable).