Will A Taiwanese TS Have A Metric Arbor Nut?

The outer, arbor nut, is easy. It's the arbor itself that's the problem. Is the bandsaw blade wide enough to get to the arbor? That's really what's needed.

I've seen some skinny wrenches on Amazon. I should buy one just in case but haven't.

The arbor or the nut?

Well, that's how I know how rare the open-end wrench is.

I can tell you that the nut can be put on there *real* tight! DAMHIK

A Crescent wrench can really bugger up that nut. It's a thin nut. There is space around it but a wrench wider than the nut can do a real number on it. I don't know how hard the nuts are to get. I should find one for an emergency. Delta parts are impossible to get. The new Delta doesn't give a crap about previous customers. I have the Delta Unisaw and a drill press. No more.

No it won't. The battery will be dead. I can't keep batteries in HF calipers (or Wixey widgets for that matter).

Dial calipers, even Harbor Freight, don't have that problem but haven't found dial Wixey gauges. ;-)

It is about a 16th thick so it slips easily between the arbor and blade, also works on the craftsman ras.

This is not your ordinary bandsaw, it was used to cut things in half at IH/JI Case research center. Like tractors and combines.

I found one on ebay (I think)

And a nut

I don't think either is original (the wrench certainly isn't).

That would work well, but if you know a machinist it is 7/8" and a

My digital caliper (General) chews up the A76 battery and spits it on the shop floor, laughing maniacally.

The first indication that the battery is getting weak is that the caliper "automatically" switches to mm while I'm using it.

So, for lack of a better post to respond to with the outcome, you win. ;-)

This is what I was I dealing with:

Turns out the nut might be 23 mm, per my caliper. (22.8x depending on where I measured it.) All I had with me was SAE. 7/8" was too small,

However, looking at that saw, especially the fence, I'm not sure I even want to use it. My daughter told me that it shot a piece of trim into her BF's knee the last time he used it. Could have been his technique, who knows.

It's got a new blade on it now...I just hope I don't need it for the projects I'm working on. I may let my circular saw handle any ripping I need to do. I'm not building furniture.

I ordered them "just-in-case". Parts are hard to come by so "sighted sub, sank same".

Nope. It's a mess.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer (or breaker bar/pipe).

If it were me, I'd buy them a better (perhaps even new) saw. My son has no interest in doing anything himself (but should). I gave him some really nice tools but I don't think he's ever plugged them in.

If you don't feel safe using it, should they be using it?

Her BF works for his father. Concrete business. I didn't know it until last night, but the saw is technically a "business asset". I thought that the TS and a miter saw that have been at my daughter's house for few months were the BF's, but they are actually his dad's/the business's.

I've been using the miter saw for various projects around the house, just didn't need the TS. However, they both needed blades, so I bought them, basically for the BF for all the work he's done around the house. My daughter doesn't use the TS and I'm not buying tools for the Dad's business.

My nephew owns Ascention ReadyMix in Baton Rouge. He's a multi-millionaire. I would assume the BF's dad is of some worth. The BF should buy her a decent saw. Period!

Sonny

I have a Cen-Tech 6" digital caliper bought on sale some years ago. It does not eat batteries. But you do need to use silver oxide batteries, not alkaline. Even if they came with alkaline.

Joe Gwinn

I don't see how it would buying it for his dad's business. If the saw is as bad as you say, I'd look at a new one as an insurance policy.

I've bought at least three or four of them. I don't think I've ever picked one up, unless I'd just changed batteries, that worked. Yes, I use the silver oxide batteries but the fact is that these leak like hell. They really are crap.

A decent size adjustable wrench should do the job just fine if you jam a 2x4 into the blade.

Silver oxide batteries *of good manufacture* do not "leak like hell". Hmm. Lots of alkaline batteries are sold as "silver oxide", a lie. Don't buy batteries on Amazon, or online at all.

But maybe you need to get Mitutoyo calipers. But they want silver oxide as well.

Joe Gwinn

No, the calipers leak like hell. They're junk.

Yeah Starrett makes fine tools and I'm sure Mitutoyo tools are good too, at $125, but we were talking about $20 Harbor Freight crap. HF's dial calipers work well enough for most uses.

Again, the problem isn't the batteries.