A Minute with Matt | Balancing Band Mill Wheels | McDonough Manufacturing

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A Minute with Matt - Balancing Band Mill Wheels is the first video in our new vlog series. McDonough Manufacturing has been building quality sawmill machinery in the U.S. since 1888! Watch this video to learn more about how we balance the wheels on our Band Mills.
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Hi Everyone I'm Matt Tietz, owner with McDonough Manufacturing. Today, I want to talk about balancing our band mill wheels. So what we have behind me here is a 54 lower wheel. We're statically balancing this wheel, which means the wheel is pretty much stationary. We rotate it a little bit to make sure we get the heavy spot and the light spot. Um, the tools of the trade here. We've got some led wool and you just got a little wooden block.
And so what we do with those is we have some balance pockets. If we come around on this side, you can see we've got some balance pockets down here, all the way around this um, this casting. So what we do with those balanced pockets is that's where we put the lead wool we'll pound the led wool in on the light spot until this wheel is statically almost perfectly balanced.
And then what we do is we take this wheel off the static balancer, and we'll bring it over here to the dynamic balancer. So this belt we'll run this wheel up to a certain RPM, and we've got some electronics on here that will tell us if the wheel is perfectly balanced or not. So it's kind of a little bit of a double-check for us. At times, we'll have to put a little more lead wool in one place or another.
And then what we'll do is we'll take that wooden block and we'll put that wooden block in that balance pocket.
And what that wooden block does is real simple. It keeps any lead wool in the pocket, but also once we're running, it keeps the sawdust out of those balance pockets to make sure that that wheel is perfectly true and runs for a lifetime.

[@FreedomWalker-xz1ss]

How to Grand the wheel where the saw is running.is it at an angle

[@RRaucina]

Why do small shop wood band saws have rubber tires and large sawmills are able to run the bands on steel directly? Fantastic craftsmanship in your machine builds, you are a lucky man to be where you are.

[@McDonoughMfg]

Most do not have a strain mechanism, but it's also the saw blade itself. Wider saw blades have tension put into the body of the blade after every 4 hours of running. Narrow blades do not.

[@larrywanner6233]

Would have never guessed lead wool! What ISO balance grade would you shoot for on a wheel like that?

[@mattyjtietz]

Our minimum standard is 2.5 but we typically achieve 1.0

[@Posthousedon]

Nice Job Matt.