I just bought a brand new grizzly 14" Grizzly G0555XH Bandsaw and it works great besides one thing I dislike very much after paying $1,500.
The problem is the vertical arm that is moved up and down depending on the height of the wood you are resawing, is not parallel to the blade.
So when the arm is raised high it can touch all the way on the left guide bearing, and lowered all the way down it can touch on the right bearing (with these bearings 1/2 inch apart).
Every time I have to move the arm I have to get out my hex wrench and readjust the guide bearings.
I called grizzly and asked them what can be done, and I was told basically there is no adjustment method to fix this and it should have been parallel from their factory and they are not sure why it isn't.
I was told I can put metal shims on the left side where the bottom and top are bolted together.
I have never done this before, seems fairly easy to do, but I can't understand how that will help, as the top blade wheel will be adjusted as the metal shim is shoved in there also. So the blade and the arm will both move, correct?
that does not solve the problem if they both move, will it? Curious how you guys would handle the situation?
would you do the shimming because that will somehow solve it?
would you call grizzly back and tell them it's just not acceptable after paying $1,500?
Would you suck it up and just accept you are forced to use your hex wrench over and over and over each day?
The problem is the vertical arm that is moved up and down depending on the height of the wood you are resawing, is not parallel to the blade.
So when the arm is raised high it can touch all the way on the left guide bearing, and lowered all the way down it can touch on the right bearing (with these bearings 1/2 inch apart).
Every time I have to move the arm I have to get out my hex wrench and readjust the guide bearings.
I called grizzly and asked them what can be done, and I was told basically there is no adjustment method to fix this and it should have been parallel from their factory and they are not sure why it isn't.
I was told I can put metal shims on the left side where the bottom and top are bolted together.
I have never done this before, seems fairly easy to do, but I can't understand how that will help, as the top blade wheel will be adjusted as the metal shim is shoved in there also. So the blade and the arm will both move, correct?
that does not solve the problem if they both move, will it? Curious how you guys would handle the situation?
would you do the shimming because that will somehow solve it?
would you call grizzly back and tell them it's just not acceptable after paying $1,500?
Would you suck it up and just accept you are forced to use your hex wrench over and over and over each day?