The good news is that I picked up a 14" Shop Fox Bandsaw, model W1706 with a 6" riser block installed and a they threw in several blades, mostly 3/4" resaw blades. The bad news is that there are a couple of issues with the saw, First, the wheels are not co-planer, so I have picked up a couple of washers from the hardware store and will try and fix that Monday evening by placing them behing the upper wheel that is about 3/32 back from the lower wheel ( It had no spacers, they must have moved them to the top) It seems that the riser block fortunately did not put a twist into the upper wheel, so that should bring them back into allignment. Second, there are four set screw that are accessable from the back of the upper wheel housing on the tension spring housing. The two outside ones were very loose, and the two inside ones were missing, however there were two spares in the cabinet. Unfortunately one of the two inside ones is stripped. I believe that they are tapped in to the triangular bracket that holds the upper axle. So, do I need both installed? or will one be OK? should they be loose or snugged down? do I need to replace that axle bracket? Should I call Shop Fox on this one? Does Ittura (sp?) have a better replacement?
I will probably have more questions later when I get more in to using the saw once I can get it tuned up. With the out-of-plane wheels, the blade is jumping around quite a bit and the cuts are not smooth. I know, I know, Tune First, Cut Second, But this saw looks like so much FUN!
Mike