Wilton 3410 6-Inch 3/4-Horsepower Wet Horizontal Metalworking Bandsaw, 115-Volt 1 Phase

I have used this saw extensively for about 2 months now and can find little to fault it. The saw cuts accurately, is easy to adjust, and works well with the water soluable cutting oil I use. The machine is well made with quality heavy duty materials through out.I trimmed a piece of 3" channel with it that measured only 1/1000 of an inch different from top to bottom (and the trim piece was only .28" thick). Nice work for a saw in this price range! The cutting oil pump works well and is easy to adjust the flow.
The only things I would like to see added to the saw would be a splash guard for the cutting oil on the off-side, locks for the wheels so that it doesn't roll around so easily, and a way to lock the blade up from the on-board side while I make adjustments for my cut. - All of which can I built and added after the first few days of use. Tapering the drain pan a bit would also be nice so that cutting oil isn't left in pools on it. All of the things are minor though, and...Read more

I got this together with some other machines when I built up a workshop less than a year ago.

After I bought this, I thought it might be a little overkill for a home workshop, but since I have it, I have been using it all of the time.

This machine arrived in an open crate on a pallet. Some parts of the stop for the saw had been banged up, but otherwise the saw was fine. I called support briefly to explain what happened, and they asked me to send an email with some pictures to tell them which parts I needed replacing. I haven't followed up with that, but for some reason I received some extra blades from Wilton.

When I received the saw, I did a few test cuts, and I could cut a 1/16" thick disc through 3" aluminum without any variation in thickness. Being a horizontal saw with coolant, this saw cuts through steel, stainless steel, and aluminum without any trouble. This saw is capable of running dry, but I would still recommend using the coolant -...Read more

Contrary to the only other review here at the time that I'm writing this, I found this saw to be the most un-user friendly tool that I've ever encountered. Every adjustment requires a variety of tools--need to make an angle-cut? Then you must unbolt the jaw and move it to a new position, where the gauge on the saw is only suitable for rough cuts.

I found that the manual--though an order of magnitude better than the almost incomprehensibly translated manual for a Grizzly bandsaw that I look at previously--leaves a lot to be desired. For example, an instruction such as "loosen the socket head cap screw" would have been more helpful if it had read, "loosen the socket head cap screw with a 6 mm hex wrench as shown in figure ...".

Out of the box, I found that there was a 1/16" difference between the top and bottom of a cut in 4" stock, and that it was impossible to adjust for a perfectly vertical cut. My view is that the design of the tool limits how finely it...Read more