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I used to have a Jet 9" x 16" horizontal bandsaw that I was very pleased with. I sold it when I retired, and have been making do with my little 4" x 6" Dayton saw for a number of years. I don't have the space in my garage for another large saw, and decided to go with a Jet Model 414559 7" x 12" saw. I wanted to have at least a 3/4" blade.
The saw came by truck with a lift gate, and the driver put the crate in my garage with a pallet jack. We removed the top of the crate and plastic, which the driver took with him. I attached a come along to the end of my car lift and raised the saw enough to remove the skid and mount the included wheels.
The instructions and illustrations weren't much good, but the only assembly required was adding the wheels and belt guard. I swapped out the blade for a Lenox bi-metal blade before using the saw.
As it turned out, the saw was perfectly adjusted by the factory, and it was pretty much just plug and play. They provided a sample cut, which was a .070" thick wafer cut from a 2" cold roll round bar. I was dubious that it was really cut with that saw, and did an initial cut for comparison. I had no CR round larger than 1" so I used that. Surprisingly, my first cut with the saw looked just as good as their sample. It was .070" thick and varied about .002" in thickness from side to side. Their larger cut varied about .005". The cut took slightly longer than my old 9" x 16" saw, but was about 10 times quicker than my 4x6.
So far, I'm quite satisfied which my purchase, and amazed that the thing could be manufactured in Taiwan, shipped across the world, and sold through a distribution chain for under $1,400. I guess that's what fifty cents an hour labor does.
The saw came by truck with a lift gate, and the driver put the crate in my garage with a pallet jack. We removed the top of the crate and plastic, which the driver took with him. I attached a come along to the end of my car lift and raised the saw enough to remove the skid and mount the included wheels.
The instructions and illustrations weren't much good, but the only assembly required was adding the wheels and belt guard. I swapped out the blade for a Lenox bi-metal blade before using the saw.
As it turned out, the saw was perfectly adjusted by the factory, and it was pretty much just plug and play. They provided a sample cut, which was a .070" thick wafer cut from a 2" cold roll round bar. I was dubious that it was really cut with that saw, and did an initial cut for comparison. I had no CR round larger than 1" so I used that. Surprisingly, my first cut with the saw looked just as good as their sample. It was .070" thick and varied about .002" in thickness from side to side. Their larger cut varied about .005". The cut took slightly longer than my old 9" x 16" saw, but was about 10 times quicker than my 4x6.
So far, I'm quite satisfied which my purchase, and amazed that the thing could be manufactured in Taiwan, shipped across the world, and sold through a distribution chain for under $1,400. I guess that's what fifty cents an hour labor does.
