Wilton 3410 6-Inch 3/4-Horsepower Wet Horizontal Metalworking Bandsaw, 115-Volt 1 Phase

List Price: $1,255.00 Discount Price: $999.00

Features:

• 3/4-horsepower wet horizontal metalworking band saw with 115-volt motor
• Coolant pump; automatic shutoff for safety; adjustable hydraulic feed system
• Cast-iron table and saw head; steel blade drive; heat-treated worm; cast-iron blade wheels
• Wheeled base increases portability
• 2-year warranty

Accessories:
Jet 708718R Band Saw Rip Fence With Resaw Guide	Kreg KMS7200 Bandsaw Fence	Milwaukee 48-08-0260 Band Saw Table

Customer Reviews:

An excellent bandsaw for it's size [Posted on 2005-12-03]
I have used this saw extensively for about 2 months now and can find little to fault it. The saw cuts accurately, is easy to adjust, and works well with the water soluable cutting oil I use. The machine is well made with quality heavy duty materials through out.I trimmed a piece of 3" channel with it that measured only 1/1000 of an inch different from top to bottom (and the trim piece was only .28" thick). Nice work for a saw in this price range! The cutting oil pump works well and is easy to adjust the flow.
The only things I would like to see added to the saw would be a splash guard for the cutting oil on the off-side, locks for the wheels so that it doesn't roll around so easily, and a way to lock the blade up from the on-board side while I make adjustments for my cut. - All of which can I built and added after the first few days of use. Tapering the drain pan a bit would also be nice so that cutting oil isn't left in pools on it. All of the things are minor though, and if you are looking for a saw to cut small to medium size steel in a shop, I recommend it totaly.

- The instruction book (which is good) says it takes 1 gallon of cutting oil. One gallon will barely be enough to get the pump to work. Figure 2-3 gallons.

- Buy a couple Starrett or Lenox blades as the saw comes with only one and it didn't last but a few dozen cuts with me.

- Tweek the adjustments on the blade after a few cuts. The saw comes well set up but it can be tuned a bit better.

- Make sure you have a way to unload the saw if you have to pick it up from the shipping company. This thing is heavy and it comes crated completly set up (other than the putting on the wheels).

Hard to adjust--poor accuracy [Posted on 2008-06-03]
Contrary to the only other review here at the time that I'm writing this, I found this saw to be the most un-user friendly tool that I've ever encountered. Every adjustment requires a variety of tools--need to make an angle-cut? Then you must unbolt the jaw and move it to a new position, where the gauge on the saw is only suitable for rough cuts.

I found that the manual--though an order of magnitude better than the almost incomprehensibly translated manual for a Grizzly bandsaw that I look at previously--leaves a lot to be desired. For example, an instruction such as "loosen the socket head cap screw" would have been more helpful if it had read, "loosen the socket head cap screw with a 6 mm hex wrench as shown in figure ...".

Out of the box, I found that there was a 1/16" difference between the top and bottom of a cut in 4" stock, and that it was impossible to adjust for a perfectly vertical cut. My view is that the design of the tool limits how finely it can be adjusted--at the very least, it makes it very difficult.

The hydraulic control cylinder does a poor job of controlling the speed of cuts--as the arm lowers, the speed increases, so that you have to adjust the cylinder needle value continuously or support the arm with your hand.

After struggling with a dozen cuts or so, one of the blade bearings exploded, spewing ball-bearings everywhere.

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