Laguna LT18 tension spring replacement

[Jamie Straw]

Hi, everyone, voice from the past here. Our Laguna LT18 bandsaw tension spring appears to be at the end of its life. We pulled it today, looks like something out of a small car! Has anybody replaced this part in their LT18? NOTE: It's nothing like the yellow Iturra replacement springs for 14"+ saws. Measures 1.5" across, "wire" is .3" in diameter. Laguna doesn't seem to have parts for this saw, and eReplacements doesn't list any Laguna parts.

 

[John Whitley]

Wait, they don't have parts for a current model bandsaw??!? I mean, I'm well acquainted with wildly differing parts access of various vendors, but this is ridiculous.

More helpfully, you might try to get Laguna to give you the full spec of that spring so you can try to source one of the correct spec e.g. from McMaster-Carr's springs catalog or another vendor. Dimensions are one thing, but you'll also need things like the max load, spring rate, etc. Poke around at that McMaster link to get an idea of what info you'll need for the type of spring required (compression vs extension). Also, being Laguna, I would expect that it's a metric-spec'ed spring.

 

[Jamie Straw]

Thanks, John. Today I took another stab at searching and found the part at Laguna's site. Our saw is an older one, before the LT18 was as the current ones (only has 11" resaw!). I hope it has the same spring as today's saws, I just rolled the dice.