ToddStock wrote:
For what you need the saw to do right now, you are probably good as is. As Todd mentioned, there are lots of improvements to make if you decide to to do resawing, etc., but wait a bit to do them until you figure out which are going to do you the most good.
Well, I was having a lot of vibration in my brand new Jet 14" saw (when I first bought it about 6 years ago) until I put in a link belt and replaced the belt wheels with upgrades from Iturra. I also found a new tensioner wheel thingie to be well worth the money for the time saved in blade changing. I also needed some special washer-like spacer thingies from Iturra to get my blade wheels lined up (coplanar) with each other.
Then there's things like new tires on the blade wheels and new blade guides and bearings.
Also, for some weird reason, Jet saws have an interesting achilles heel: where the tensioner rod seats in the saw's cast frame, at the bottom of the rod, it wears down into the iron rather quickly. You might want to look there and see how much wear there is or if it's already been fixed. The fix is to drill out some iron and put in a steel something-or-other, like a good, hard steel nut.
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