Scotty370
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- Joined
- Dec 18, 2008
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- Location
- Buffalo, New York
- Tractor
- 318 John Deere, 4200 John Deere, 1947 John Deere "M"
In this bandsaw mill I'm thinking of building, one of the critical factors is band blade tension. When the two wheels are frame mounted, the 'idler' wheel and pillow bearings, are mounted on a slide plate to adjust tension. This can be accomplished with a simple screw devise, but most builders prefer a small hydro-ram & gauge simular to a porta-power unit w/hand pump. No real mention is made of stroke/bore, so here's my question. 2400#, seems to be the number their shooting for so if you pressurize any ram, regardless of size, to 2400#, and stop, is the resulting pressure the same? If you mounted a ram to the ceiling over a floor scale, would the scale read 2400#s when the gauge did? Some simple things, I just don't comprehend, not to mention the complex ones!
TIA ~Scotty