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and mine.
although vark's has a couple of feet of space near the ceiling, which seems to be missing in mine.
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Got the bandsaw finished last night. Not quite as posh as @Dr.Al 
but very happy with the results.
New bearings came in on Thursday
So these got fitted (in the background is the thinned down spanner I adapted to adjust the cams)
Then adjusted the cut using the steel rule method to get it straight and vertical. Once it was all nice and square took my first cut on a bit of box section running at medium speed.
Couple of issues appeared that needed a bit of fettling.
1. The blade cover was fouling on the wheel/handle for the vice. The cover was a couple of mm proud so ended up just massaging it a little
2. The Blade wasn't cutting to the bottom before it hit the cutoff switch (even after adjusting switch) and fouled on the vice wheel. I found I had to adjust the blade guides down to force the blade to run lower. Initially top of the blade wasn't touching the single bearing. This enabled me to get the cut all the way through the box and also helped with clearance on the vice wheel (we are talking a few mm here)
3. Getting the cutoff switch tab positioned correctly took a lot of trial and error, and will probably need more fettling once everything settles in but it works great ATM
4.Halfway through the cut the blade seized a couple of times. I was dleiberatley running it dry as I wanted to see how it would cut. This was down to the blade slipping on the pulley so I nipped up the blade tension a bit and its fine. Surprised me actually how "tense" the blade is (maybe it needs to go for a good night out
)
So all fettled, found it easier to do the final tweaks on the blade by taking repreated cuts and measuring squareness then adjusting from there. Will now quite happily cut slices down to about 2mm
- although the pic below is of one a bit thicker than that.
Cheers,
MM
but very happy with the results.New bearings came in on Thursday
So these got fitted (in the background is the thinned down spanner I adapted to adjust the cams)
Then adjusted the cut using the steel rule method to get it straight and vertical. Once it was all nice and square took my first cut on a bit of box section running at medium speed.
Couple of issues appeared that needed a bit of fettling.
1. The blade cover was fouling on the wheel/handle for the vice. The cover was a couple of mm proud so ended up just massaging it a little
2. The Blade wasn't cutting to the bottom before it hit the cutoff switch (even after adjusting switch) and fouled on the vice wheel. I found I had to adjust the blade guides down to force the blade to run lower. Initially top of the blade wasn't touching the single bearing. This enabled me to get the cut all the way through the box and also helped with clearance on the vice wheel (we are talking a few mm here)
3. Getting the cutoff switch tab positioned correctly took a lot of trial and error, and will probably need more fettling once everything settles in but it works great ATM
4.Halfway through the cut the blade seized a couple of times. I was dleiberatley running it dry as I wanted to see how it would cut. This was down to the blade slipping on the pulley so I nipped up the blade tension a bit and its fine. Surprised me actually how "tense" the blade is (maybe it needs to go for a good night out
)So all fettled, found it easier to do the final tweaks on the blade by taking repreated cuts and measuring squareness then adjusting from there. Will now quite happily cut slices down to about 2mm
- although the pic below is of one a bit thicker than that.Cheers,
MM
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(Yesterday) I made spicy garlic ramen.
Boil a chicken for six hours to make a broth, the flavouring (Tare) is all sorts of odd asian ingredients, gochujang, tamarind, etc. I couldn't find the right chillies for a chilli oil so used Mexican ones, I don't think you can tell.
I couldn't be bothered to make thin ramen noodles without a pasta machine but I might have a go at Udon noodles if I get bored revising today.
Boil a chicken for six hours to make a broth, the flavouring (Tare) is all sorts of odd asian ingredients, gochujang, tamarind, etc. I couldn't find the right chillies for a chilli oil so used Mexican ones, I don't think you can tell.
I couldn't be bothered to make thin ramen noodles without a pasta machine but I might have a go at Udon noodles if I get bored revising today. 
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Got the bandsaw finished last night. Not quite as posh as @Dr.Al
New bearings came in on Thursday
View attachment 207468
So these got fitted (in the background is the thinned down spanner I adapted to adjust the cams)
View attachment 207467
Then adjusted the cut using the steel rule method to get it straight and vertical. Once it was all nice and square took my first cut on a bit of box section running at medium speed.
View attachment 207466
Couple of issues appeared that needed a bit of fettling.
1. The blade cover was fouling on the wheel/handle for the vice. The cover was a couple of mm proud so ended up just massaging it a little
2. The Blade wasn't cutting to the bottom before it hit the cutoff switch (even after adjusting switch) and fouled on the vice wheel. I found I had to adjust the blade guides down to force the blade to run lower. Initially top of the blade wasn't touching the single bearing. This enabled me to get the cut all the way through the box and also helped with clearance on the vice wheel (we are talking a few mm here)
3. Getting the cutoff switch tab positioned correctly took a lot of trial and error, and will probably need more fettling once everything settles in but it works great ATM
4.Halfway through the cut the blade seized a couple of times. I was dleiberatley running it dry as I wanted to see how it would cut. This was down to the blade slipping on the pulley so I nipped up the blade tension a bit and its fine. Surprised me actually how "tense" the blade is (maybe it needs to go for a good night out
So all fettled, found it easier to do the final tweaks on the blade by taking repreated cuts and measuring squareness then adjusting from there. Will now quite happily cut slices down to about 2mm
View attachment 207465
Cheers,
MM
Don't forget to mark the blade tensioning hand wheel with a vertical hack saw cut when you've tensioned the blade correctly .. Then each time you finish up & have cleaned it down slacken the blade off three full turns of the hand wheel to take the tension out the blade and the actual frame of the machine . Do the same on wood bandsaws as well .
at start up add the three turns to re-tension the band blade .
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Have you seen Alex french guy cooking ls ramen series on YouTube? Good watch if you like your ramen!(Yesterday) I made spicy garlic ramen.
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Boil a chicken for six hours to make a broth, the flavouring (Tare) is all sorts of odd asian ingredients, gochujang, tamarind, etc. I couldn't find the right chillies for a chilli oil so used Mexican ones, I don't think you can tell.
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Another hole in the van...
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Yep, I've got his book here too but disappointingly there's no ramen recipes in it, I borrowed this book off a housemate for the recipe. I might try Alex's idea of reducing the broth down and keeping it concentrated as ice cubes, there's about 4 litres of it left in the fridge to get through.
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