Bandsaw is working again

6/4/20, 11:06 PM #1

Johanna Johanson
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Bandsaw is working again

Johanna Johanson

My electrician came today and reconnected my bandsaw. Good timing - I need to buy lumber for the next stage of my project of building two dressers.

The cause of my bandsaw quitting was the windings in the motor. My electrician diagnosed the problem. I took to motor to a local shop the fixes motors. When I brought it home and re-installed it, I realized that had not taken notice of how the wires were connected. So I had to wait until my electrician could come by to get it going again.

It is SO nice to have a functioning bandsaw again!

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6/5/20, 1:05 AM #2

Kneale Brownson
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Whenever I tackle some disassembly project that will end with reassembly, I try to take pictures.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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6/5/20, 11:09 AM #3

John K Jordan
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I am so easily confused when it comes to reassembling. I do take pictures sometimes but better for me are labels on wires if the colors are ambiguous and a drawing of what goes where.

Yikes I'd hate to be without my shop bandsaw. I'd be forced to haul the smaller one down from the garage.

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6/5/20, 2:28 PM #4

Bill Howatt
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I often don't take the one picture I need

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6/5/20, 2:35 PM #5

Bill Tindall, E.TN.
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motor plate

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I have never seen a motor that did not have a wiring diagram on it somewhere.

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6/5/20, 6:38 PM #6

Johanna Johanson
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Re: motor plate

Johanna Johanson

There was no wiring diagram on the motor plate nor was there one in the user manual. Lots of diagrams of all the parts, nothing on the wiring.

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6/5/20, 9:04 PM #7

Stuart Johnson
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Re: Let me introduce you to my wife.

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I don't know how many times she has come to me asked me to fix something. The something is usually some sort of household devise thatis now in a completely dissembled pile of parts. No matter what it takes to fix I still need to figure out why tab A goes into slot c after screw 6 is inserted into brace F.

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6/6/20, 2:55 AM #8

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I don't know why . . .

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. . . my wife continues to remind me of the thing she wants fixed. I heard her the first time. She doesn't have to remind me every six months !

Bandsaw is working again

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