Vertical cutting on metal bandsaw

[Windy Miller]

If you're going to be using a narrower blade, you'll need to get narrower drive wheels too. The idea is that the teeth of the blade sit just off the edge of the drive wheel.

Narrower blades would be all over the place if they didn't run on the drive wheel shoulder, and if they did run on it, they'd soon wear out a wrong sized wheel as the teeth would be in constant contact with the wheel surface.

As said earlier, don't try it!

 

[indy4x]

16mm is a bit tasty for hand feeding. I guess it also depends on the size of the workpiece remembering you're going to be holding it up if it's larger than your table. You should find a thread of mine where I built a simple table and bracket incidentally. It works really well.

For curves in 16mm I think you'll be better off drilling holes and joining the tangents with a straight(ish) cut.

I missed that thread and is exactly what I am planning on doing to mine

 

[bigegg]

I ain't exactly in town myself.
<snip>
Within ten miles your a local

he's in Oz.
chances are, within 10 mile he's still in his garden.

 

[brightspark]

he's in Oz.
chances are, within 10 mile he's still in his garden.

no back yard

 

[Kent]

he's in Oz.
chances are, within 10 mile he's still in his garden.

Possibly though like here it varies a lot