Bandsaw Chip Brush

ddickey

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Looking for a couple brushes. I found one site but they wanted $10 shipping for a $3 brush.
Any other ideas?
 
I get cheap brushes from Lee Valley or KBC ( no affiliation with either one).




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My Powermatic 20" that I had at my business just used wood backed brushes that you likely could find at the hardware store; the Rockwell/Delta that I have now uses bristle brushes that look like something you would clean your fingernails with, about 1" wide and 2" long, held against the bottom wheel at about 10:30 with an angle bracket, at an angle to the wheel. I think the Powermatic used brass bristles.
 
Last time I had a dental checkup they gave me a toothbrush. I asked for an extra one for my Ellis bandsaw.

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It works fine but I’m going to hook up this solenoid and direct a stream
of air to clear chips whilst cooling the blade.

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Looking for a couple brushes. I found one site but they wanted $10 shipping for a $3 brush.
Any other ideas?

What are you looking for? I have some fine bristled steel wheels about 1" OD with 1/4" arbor hole. Works really well on my chip brush. I can send you a couple. PM me your address.
 
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I was just looking today for some , on eBay I found 4-$7.32 delivered 1 1/2 dia with 3/8 " bore. I was thinking one on each side of the blade with sleeve bushings ad a rubber and or oring for tension against blade where the teeth are.
 
I also need to change the metal bristle brushes on my horizontal bandsaw but after seeing the price of new Kalamazoo brushes on ebay ($42), I have decided to fashion a couple out of file cleaning brushes, they can be had for under $10.
 
Harbor Freight drill mounted brush, couple bucks for a pack of them. Plus some scrap skate bearings and chunk of delrin. Not jammed in to the blade - just barely rolls along and works a treat.

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Harbor Freight drill mounted brush, couple bucks for a pack of them. Plus some scrap skate bearings and chunk of delrin. Not jammed in to the blade - just barely rolls along and works a treat.

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See the chips on the guide bearings? Keeping them off of there, and off the faces of the the drive and driven gears, is what this is all about. For that you need to have brushes at the sides of the blades, so the chips don't get rolled and smashed into sticking to things. I suppose keeping chips out of the teeth might help, but I have never seen trouble from that issue, though it couldn't hurt to keep them out of the blade gullets. Three brushes total, well after the cut to be away from gathering more chips, and before the drive wheel, seems to make the most sense to me.
 
I could be wrong but looks like the guide bearings are ridding on the teeth,
 
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