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• All guides are aligned and set at the factory, but occasionally they get moved
out of adjustment in shipping or after a period of usage. It is important that they be
checked often for proper alignment and adjusted correctly.
• To adjust your guides correctly you must first tension the blade properly as pre-
viously described. A tensioned blade should come off the bottom of the band wheel and
run straight across to the other, so there is NO sag between the two wheels.
c) Now that the blade is tight, slightly loosen the Allen head that holds the guide shoes,
so that they slide up and down freely. Now loosen the bolt that fastens the aluminum
guide bracket to the guide rod, so that the guide bracket can be moved in, out and it can
be rotated in either direction.
d) Set the guide bracket so that the back bearing is on the same plane as the blade, so
that if the blade were to wander back it would hit the back bearing evenly across the mid-
dle of the roller. If the bearing needs to be adjusted up or down, loosen the bolt that holds
it to the guide bracket and space it in either direction using the washers that are on either
side of the bearings.
e) Once the bearing is set, position the guide bracket so that the bearing is 1/8" behind
the back of the blade. Once the bearing is in position, tighten the bolt on top of the guide
bracket in to place. Be sure the guide is 90 to the blade.
f.) The guide shoes are to be set using a sheet of paper to gauge the spacing. Place the
paper between the shoe and the blade, slide the shoe so that it is pitching the paper and
tighten the bolt so that the shoe is set in place. Do the same on the bottom of the blade.
Note that you do not want the shoe to be pitching the blade so hard that it is prohibiting
blade travel
g) Make sure that all nuts and bolts are tightened firmly.
N. Using the Lumber Scale
a) All Hud-Son sawmills are equipped with a Lumber Scale. The scale is used to make
the dimensioning process simple. The scale incorporates 4 separate scales with the blade
kerf factored in for each increment.
Scale
Resulting Thickness
4/4
1”
5/4
1 - 1/4”
6/4
1 - 1/2”
8/4
2”
Note:
The 1" standard ruler does NOT account for kerf. When using this scale be sure to
plan on kerf. 1" increments will result in approximately a 7/8" end result, depending
on what blade is being used.
