There is always Shopsmith-- might be on the smaller side though for you. But can the Craftsman not be repaired?
Always nice to hear from you Andrew.
Well, maybe it can be fixed. In fact I'm sure it can, but it's stumped me so far.
WEN 3939 2.8-Amp 9" Benchtop Band Saw - - Amazon.com
It's a cheesy lightweight saw, pretty sure Wen made it for them, looks identical to the Wen, I have the smallest bench top model. The clamp is cheesy and must be fiddled with to get a true 90 degrees. Frankly never liked the thing and now the rubber drive belt has broken. I bought a new belt. Spent literally hours trying to get the mechanism apart so the new belt could be installed. Could not find instructions online but maybe I can searching the Wen model. I'm clearly missing some important step.
I don't use the saw often, and until I downsize and spend more time in my woodshop, hard to justify commercial quality. Most of Grizzly stuff comes from Taiwan, but like Jet most of their equipment looks high value, and start in the 600 dollar range. I haven't found the Shopsmith line yet, know they've been around a long time, but I think that's a price brand too.
Am trying to climb out of the basement of quality here.
The decent equipment is so heavy it makes sense me tracking down the closest store, likely either in Raleigh or up in lower VA, and take the truck and pick it up myself, shipping costs a lot and worse, damages the equipment.
Ron, Delta would not make something this lightweight. I need to write down the model number and then I'll use your link, thanks.
I used a bandsaw a lot while making several dozen birdhouses. One of which is on my woodshop bench crying out for a complete refurb. Just too much else to do.
Maybe this winter. Of course I said that last winter.
raining pretty well here, little over an inch of rain so far, gentle, much needed.
Supposed to stop late morning and then start up again later, big system off shore moving North.
72 going up to 84 in clouds and showers.
