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So if all is true, there certainly does appear to be advantages to achieving coplanar alignment of the wheels. Those that have managed to acheive coplanar alignment report these advantages:ġ) Far less adjustment when changing from one blade size to anotherĢ) Better, straighter cuts even though they are adjusting lessģ) Blades falling right onto the center of both the top and bottom wheelsĥ) According to Grizzly, less wear on saw components That said there are other experienced users that simply do not think it matters and in one sense I think I can see their point as well. I think there is enough evidence out there from experienced users to suggest that there is advantage to aligning crowned bandsaw wheels so that they are coplanar.
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Most of the post uses Grizzly and Laguna bandsaws for purposes of discussion, mainly because I own a Laguna 14 twelve on the Laguna side, because there is a great deal of information available form Grizzly for other members to go explore and because as you will likely see shortly, both companies lie on opposite sides of the coplanar wheel discussion in my opinion. But it is the product of having done a ton of reading the past few days here and elsehwere including reading manufacturers owner's manuals for a multitude of different bandsaws and watching countless videos on bandsaw tuning and whathaveyou. I do also own one as does the OP of the other thread. However there is enough differing opinion on coplanar wheel alignment just in that thread to suggest to me that there are some additional questions worth exploring and then some additional questions that might be specific to the Laguna 14 twelve. But I decided that would amount to hijacking the OP's thread and I did not want to do that. I was going to post this in the thread on Laguna 14 twelve wheel alignment issues.
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