From what I can see this is THE BEST video on UA-cam explaining the mysterious black box behind the guide wheels on the Cooks mounts. One thing your mount does not address is an adjustment to move the guide wheel in and out along the guide wheel mounting shaft axis to have the blade run where it should on the guide wheel. I noticed on at least one Cooks bandmill that there is no adjustment for this. Seems like you would want to have an adjustment in every possible plane of movement: guide wheel tilt up-down and left-right; move guide wheel assembly up and down; move guide wheel assembly in and out along shaft axis. Or maybe you can do without the in and out along the guidewheel shaft axis by adjusting the blade tracking on the drive wheels to move the blade a fraction of an inch. I would not do it that way but maybe Cooks did it to simplify things on a complicated machine. Okay it's a few minutes later now and I watched a Cooks video and the narrator does say they use the blade tracking adjustments to align the blade on the the guide wheels at 1:46 ua-cam.com/video/Cb46MJObrSA/v-deo.html Thank you for a very good video that has answered a question I have long pondered.
@@ChrisOfAllTrades Okay I didn't know how the whole shaft worked with the lip you welded on so it can tilt this way and that. That's good! How much adjustment will you have in and out? Thought about it for a minute and it strikes me as odd that Cooks doesn't do it that way. It seems pretty simple rather than messing with the blade tracking for such a small adjustment. Yet seems like it would be best to have all adjustments isolated from one another too.
Oh goodness, it would probably be more expensive than it you ordered them directly from cook's because it is so extremely time consuming when you're not mass producing them like cook's
NIce work there bud.
Yes, this answered a question I asked you two years ago about the mysterious black box on the Cooks mounts.
From what I can see this is THE BEST video on UA-cam explaining the mysterious black box behind the guide wheels on the Cooks mounts. One thing your mount does not address is an adjustment to move the guide wheel in and out along the guide wheel mounting shaft axis to have the blade run where it should on the guide wheel. I noticed on at least one Cooks bandmill that there is no adjustment for this. Seems like you would want to have an adjustment in every possible plane of movement: guide wheel tilt up-down and left-right; move guide wheel assembly up and down; move guide wheel assembly in and out along shaft axis. Or maybe you can do without the in and out along the guidewheel shaft axis by adjusting the blade tracking on the drive wheels to move the blade a fraction of an inch. I would not do it that way but maybe Cooks did it to simplify things on a complicated machine. Okay it's a few minutes later now and I watched a Cooks video and the narrator does say they use the blade tracking adjustments to align the blade on the the guide wheels at 1:46 ua-cam.com/video/Cb46MJObrSA/v-deo.html Thank you for a very good video that has answered a question I have long pondered.
You can slide it in and out along the direction of the x-axis and then retighten the tilting screws to lock it in place.
@@ChrisOfAllTrades Okay I didn't know how the whole shaft worked with the lip you welded on so it can tilt this way and that. That's good! How much adjustment will you have in and out? Thought about it for a minute and it strikes me as odd that Cooks doesn't do it that way. It seems pretty simple rather than messing with the blade tracking for such a small adjustment. Yet seems like it would be best to have all adjustments isolated from one another too.
Also I hope you make a video of the assembled units and show how all the movements work. Thanks!
@@radroy92 I can probably move in and out about 3/4" to 1" in each direction
What would you charge for a complete set as shown..?
Oh goodness, it would probably be more expensive than it you ordered them directly from cook's because it is so extremely time consuming when you're not mass producing them like cook's
Thanks Chris for your reply. I noticed that you are from Moncton,NB, Canada. We are in Bathurst, NB. Subscribed today.