Three wheel bandsaw. A three wheel bandsaw gives distance of cut between the down travel cutting side and the upward return side of the saw blade. This little benchtop bandsaw has an amazingly deep 12 throat capacity because the blade tracks around three wheels. Re tire a 3 wheel bandsaw. Variable blade speed up to.
So a 20 three wheeled bandsaw will be wider than a 20 two wheeled bandsaw even though the 20 two wheeler will be much taller. But because of its three wheels this type of bandsaw machine has to change direction three times in one revolution. Among bandsaws the 3 wheeler is often thought of as a poor step child when in fact a properly tuned machine fitted with the correct blade is just as capable as its larger cousins like the classic two wheel 14 incher 355 cm. Tale of three small bandsaws saul sandey.
The miter gauge also doubles as a rip fence. The speed can be dialed in from 50 to 2300 fpm so it can be used on almost any material type. Just a short video showing how i replaced the tracking wheel bearing on my clarke bandsaw. But worse yet the three wheeled bandsaw typically needs at least the width of the wheel of additional room on the left for the third wheel.