I have a Grizzly
g0555
LV Band Saw it's a 14-in band saw from
Grizzly and I haven't really had any
complaints out of it other than for
about the past 6 months or so I I
realized that I wish I had a little bit
more resaw capacity so the quickest
solution for that instead of buying a
whole new band saw is to get a riser
block and what that does is it raises
the upper wheel and therefore giving you
more resaw capacity and a much lesser
expensive route than buying a whole new
Vans saw I wanted to buy a riser kit for
quite some time but just never got
around to doing so and last month while
I was at The Woodworking Show in Atlanta
Georgia a very kind uh viewer of the
show gave me an actual Riser block right
out of the box for this particular band
saw so today uh I got a friend with me
in the shop to help me along with this
process although it's incredibly easy to
do and anyone can do it on their own uh
but this is a good friend of mine Jeff
Ferguson and together we're going to
install this Riser block as I said the
process is incredibly easy but I found
it very convenient to have somebody else
read me the instructions as I'm going
through the process of completing this
task uh the first step though is to
remove the old band saw blade that I had
on the saw with the blade removed the
left side blade guard can be removed as
well and it's just two screws and two
washers holding this in place followed
by the wire mounts that go to the switch
boox and the actual switch box
itself the upper frame is attached to
the lower frame with one bolt on the
left- hand side and to prevent the
entire assembly from tipping to the
right I lowered the blade guard all the
way down to act as a foot now as I said
there's just one bolt holding the upper
and lower frames together so the next
step is to remove that
Bolt
with that one bolt removed the entire
upper frame can be lifted out of the way
and I was quite surprised at how
lightweight this was I thought this was
going to be um a little bit heavier than
what it actually was but it was very
easy to manage and with it out of the
way the actual Riser block can be set
into
place and then the upper frame can be
put back into place reinstalled on top
of the Riser block now didn't have uh
the new blade guard installed at this
point it was just still the old blade
guard which didn't reach down to the
table so I had to use a an extra block
here to kind of support that one side so
that it can sit on its own weight
without anyone touching it I think I
messed up a little bit on the process
here uh this bolt should have been
installed with the upper frame rather
than afterwards uh we had to lean the
upper frame back in order to push the
bolt through the Riser block which isn't
a big deal with an extra set of hands uh
with Jeff helping however if I had to do
this by myself I probably would had to
remove the upper housing upper frame and
put the bolt in at the same time then
it's just a matter of using two wrenches
to tighten the nut and bolt and these
were quite large I did not have a set of
wrenches this large so I had to go
purchase a set specifically for this if
I'm not mistaken the bolt on top
required a 26 mm wrench and the nut on
the bottom side required a 20 3 mm
wrench if I'm not mistaken like I
said the blade guard and the rack and
pinion blade Guard height adjustment all
needs to be swapped out for longer Parts
because this is obviously a taller band
saw now and the process is quite simple
it's just a couple little Allen screws
holding everything together but the back
handle for adjusting the uh rack and
pinion height or the blade Guard height
it needs to be removed in order for the
rack itself to be
removed there's a couple set screws that
limit the travel of the rack in the rack
and pinion height adjustment and they
need to be backed out a little bit
before the new rack can be installed and
once the new rack is installed and the
pinion is engaged the height adjustment
handle on the back side can be
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reinstalled
the upper bearing guide assembly is then
installed onto the bottom of the new
height adjustment rack and then the old
blade guard needs to be removed because
it no longer covers the full length of
the blade due to the rise uh the the new
resaw capacity and once that is removed
the new blade guard can then be
installed and this is a two-piece design
that has a wing nut and a little small
Carriage bolt to adjust the height uh of
this uh new blade guard and that's
because it has to fit inside the upper
door and if this is raised all the way
up then it actually sticks up past the
upper door so it needs to be collapsed
amongst its full height to fit inside
for full resaw
capacity finally the last few details is
to remount the switch boox with the
original Hardware in its original
location and this time instead of both
wires coming out of the bottom of the
Box being secured to the frame only one
of them is in my case it's the one that
goes to the power source the wire going
to the motor doesn't really have much
slack in it so there's no need in
securing it to the frame the last piece
installed is the newer longer left side
blade guard it's the same shape just
extended and this time is actually made
out of metal the original one that came
with the saw was some type of hard
plastic this one's metal and it's the
same mounting hardware to sec Ure it
back to the saw now the only downside of
adding this Riser block to my band saw
is that all of my bands saw blades that
I currently have no longer fit the
original band saw or the band saw in its
original state takes a 93 1/2 in Long
Blade and the new length is now a 105 in
Long Blade so Jeff got to keep all of my
old Banda blades uh some of which
actually aren't old and now this is the
only blade that I have with me here in
the shop and as you can see here I could
not get this particular blade on the
upper wheel without out removing the new
blade guard uh it's the only blade like
I said that I've tried on this saw so
far so I don't know if this is going to
be something that I have to remove every
single time if I do it's not that big of
a deal it's just two little philp screws
holding this in place uh but anyway I
look forward to actually getting a
dedicated resaw blade maybe a/2 in wide
blade that way I can still cut some
somewh shallow curves and keep this
thing set up for resawing once
everything is dialed in and adjusted to
this particular blade of course we got
to test it out now I don't have any
scrap wood on hand to maximize the full
12-in resaw capacity that I now have but
I do have a piece of 2x10 which a 2x10
is actually 9 and 1/4 of an 9 and 1/4 of
an inch wide uh which is 3 in wider than
anything else that I've pushed through
this particular saw so during this cut
there was no vibration issues the motor
powered through it just fine and uh yeah
I'm just I'm just really looking forward
to uh maximizing this capacity now I do
want to make some type of taller resaw
fence to Aid the process of resawing um
but that'll come in time uh I do have an
idea to make a book Matched tabletop for
my computer desk computer desktop in the
near future so stick around you might
see that uh this gives me the capacity
to make a 24in wide book Matched panel
which something that I've I'm really
looking forward to doing but anyway
quick and easy upgrade to this
particular band saw or any Band Saw
really and something that I've should
have done a long time
ago anyway thanks for watching you guys
take care and have a great
day
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