OK, I broke the cast upper blade guide peice on my old reliant band saw and have had no luck getting a replacement as they went out of business years ago. The problem being that all the popular saws use a 7/8" height adjustment guide post. The reliant post is more like 3/4" so i would have to make a sleeve of some sort to use a delta/jet etc guide assembly. Last night while reasearching this problem I read a review (on amazon, I think) from a guy who ordered an aftermarket roller bearing upper assembly for his jet that didn't fit because the guide post was too small. he has an open base Jet band saw and the guide post is 3/4". He made it fit and was surprised to find this out himself...
I emailed Jet immediatley and went through thier .pdf's trying to determine if this is so and I've gotten no response... The part numbers that i could dredge up are the same.
My question to any of you with an open base jet band saw is: could you please measure the diameter of the height adjustment shaft on your saw? I need an upper guide assembly to mount on the smaller 3/4" shaft.
If anybody can help I would greatly appreciate it!!!
Thanks'
Joe