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My grandfather was a carpenter and when he retired he moved most of his tools into his basement. This included a drill press, bandsaw, and a very heavy full size table saw. It is definitely doable. Drill presses and bandsaws don't generally create as much dust as sanders and routers. You can probably remove most of the dust they'd create with a well placed ...

I have my entire woodworking workshop in my basement. Plenty of people have basement workshops. Just get a portable dust collector like this one: Get good filter bags that filter down to at least 5 microns, smaller is better. And a remote controlled air filtration system like this one to hang from the ceiling. Drill presses make very little dust. ...

Yes it will be unhealthy... if you dont have any ventilation 1- MLA / MLZ external grille 2- Filters (hepa/etc)(not required in your situation) 3- a reliable higher quilaity not el-cheapo air fan 4- sensors (not needed here) 5- heater/cooler (not needed here) 6- Grilles 9 - AVM Backflow preventer (important) 10 - AS shutter 7,8 - Switches (not ...

From a "size - only" standpoint two critical dimensions of a bandsaw are the throat capacity and the maximum cutting height. Throat capacity is the size of the opening between the blade and the frame. You need your workpiece to be able to fit through this opening as you push it through the blade. Max cutting height is the maximum amount of blade that ...

Are there any major differences in terms of what kind of materials I can cut and how large of pieces I can cut? That's the primary difference of any saw. The bigger the saw, typically the larger the substrate you can cut with it. Other variables that affect the type of substrate you can cut would be if the saw has variable speed options, how easy it ...

In a band saw, a larger blade basically gets you two things; a little more momentum, and more teeth. More momentum is good because it means the blade is less likely to bind, and if you do encounter some difficulty it's not as hard on the motor. More teeth means the band lasts longer and makes a better cut because the teeth stay sharper. A bigger band saw ...

First of all, I'd make sure you have correctly tensioned the blade. Since it's off in the horizontal plane what you're seeing is called drift. Any band saw blade has a certain amount of drift. Most band saw fences have some sort of adjustment to compensate for drift. 20 degrees seems a bit much for normal drift hence why I think you might not have enough ...

Cheaper bandsaws tend to drift in the cut more, but any bandsaw can suffer from it. You can watch the line it is cutting along, and adjust to it, or you can try to resolve the problem. There are a few issues. If you need to push the material through the cut too hard, then it tends to twist the blade. This will cause the cut to go at a angle. Why might you ...