[pianotech] Band saw question

[Ron Nossaman]

David Love wrote:
> Should one take the tension off the band saw when it is not in use?


Maybe, but I never have. This is one of those unanswerable 
things. Until someone has a statistically meaningful number 
(maybe 100) of identical band saws all doing similar work, 
with the tension let down on the same 50 every night, keeping 
track of blade usage and machine repairs as the operators 
rotate among them for twenty years or so, it's pot luck. Even 
with reasonable evidence, there will be plenty of stories to 
the contrary.

Letting the tension down does, however, keep elephants out of 
the trees.
Ron N