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