It does not have a seperate lever to shift between the speeds. It is possible, but unlikely that the center shaft broke off cleanly and flush with the main shaft? The lower shaft will drives the lower wheel through a gear reduction.īoth shafts are solid, and do not have any possibility of a shaft passing through them. When reverse, it will not turn (at least not easily, and I don't want to force it). The upper shaft is on the lower wheel axis, and drives the bottom wheel directly when turned in the 'normal' way. Didn't get the speed high enough, so they bought another saw. Privious owner was using it for wood, and had a large pulley on the motor driving a small pulley on the backgear trying to get the speed high enough for wood. Am I missing something? I don't want to tear anything up, but other than the original step pulleys missing, it looks to be complete. I have not found a version of the saw that has 'automatic' gear changing, but maybe I have just missed it. If you turn the direct drive shaft the wrong way, it won't turn because of the backgears. If you turn the direct shaft, the backgear shaft becomes idle. It seems that if you turn the backgear shaft it drives as would be expected. This model does not appear to have a knob to pull out or a lever to turn to shift from backgear to direct drive.
Other than that, it was a real nice rebuild. Privious owner did a total rebuild, including painting over all tags. Just picked up a Rockwell/Delta 14" bandsaw. This isn't quite an antique, but thought I would try here first.