Bandsaw blade welding

[Vinny]

(12-19-2015, 04:13 PM)awemawson Wrote: When I use my blade welder, it can be a very frustrating operation, as despite annealing the blade is still very brittle, which I put down to the fact that the gap between electrodes is not huge, and the clamps are massive, and draw the heat from the glowing blade too quickly. I've now taken to annealing several times, each time sifting the blade left and right a bit.

Dunno which blade welder you have, but on mine they tell you to move the blade out away from the back to anneal. What I found when doing it that way is only the back side got hot enough. What I do now is leave it all the way back and press the button for a count of 5, then release it for a count of 10. Then repeat for 4-8, 3-6, 2-4 and then 1 and let it set for a few seconds before removing it. Releasing the pressure and turning the width knob to 0 before all that, of course.