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Enco 7X12 Bandsaw Question ( repost)

( My apologies if you recieved this message twice--AOL is really buggered up lately-RJJ )

repost:

Hi All

I recently purchased an Enco 7X12 Horizontal/Vertical bandsaw at an industrial auction. It seemed to run OK under no load but the blade would stall as soon I I tried to saw anything heavy ( with a cogging sound coming from the gearbox). I pulled the gearbox cover and discovered that the steel worm gear has completely cut off the top of the brass driven gear--It is difficult to tell but it looks as though the 2 gears barely meshed even when new ( as though the spacing between gears is too far apart for these non-adjustable gears)

Has anyone else encountered this on one of these 7X12 saws or even the very common 4X6 smaller saw ? (The design of the 7X12 saw appears to be identical to the common 4X6 with just scaled up components)

My concern is that any replacement gear from Enco will be undersized and will only partially mesh--leading to another mulched driven gear in 6 months---Major Bummer !!!

Any ideas ??? The bad driven gear is rouhly 2" in diameter and has 20 teeth---Perhaps a larger gear with 2-3 more teeth ( and hence larger diameter for a more complete mesh) might be a better solution ??? Finding such a gear might prove difficult ??

All comments are greatly appreciated

Ray Johnson snipped-for-privacy@aol.com St.Paul, MN

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Johnsorj
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Suggest:

1) Call Enco and ask if they can do parts support 2) Call Jet/Delta/Grizzly or someone who makes a very similar saw and ask their parts line if *they* do parts support for *their* 7x12 bandsaw 3) Consider learning to make gears

Good luck.

Johnsorj wrote:

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Grant Erwin

Simply call Enco and order replacement parts. Get both the worm and the gear as a set. The chance of getting a new gear to mate properly with the old worm is slight. Adjust the engagement of the new parts using shims. There should be approximately a cigarette paper thickness worth of running clearance.

Gary

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Gary Coffman

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