Laguna 18BX Bandsaw Belt & Braces Braking

I couldn't understand why it was so hard to do the blade tracking adjustment on my Laguna bandsaw. Then I discovered something interesting...

[@WokACT]

That’s a really weird design. I can’t imagine how you could change and adjust a blade without being able to move the flywheels by hand. 😡

[@MarksElectricLife]

It turns out they added the second brake to make the machine compliant with the CE safety standard. I kinda understand but surely they could have put some sort of defeat switch on there to enable blade tracking to be adjusted. Oh well, other than that it's still a great bandsaw 🙂