Several months after getting the Ryobi, I broke one of the tire brushes. I had to fabricate my own for my 14' saw. One nice feature of the saw is that it has tire brushes on both the upper and lower wheels.A replacement with one of the Ridgid band saw blades sold at Home Depot solved that. As seems to be the case for most band saws, the blade that comes with the saw didn't track straight.I was able to easily fix this by loosening the bolt that holds the bottom wheel on, taking the wheel off and shiming it with a washer.
Such that the blade seemed to ride on the front side of the bottom tire, instead of in the middle.
Here's a list of things I wound up discovering or dealing with on the Ryobi BS903: So for $99 the Ryobi 9' is just the ticket and I use it just for working with small stuff and cutting curves. For those times I want to cut curves, I find it's a tedious process to have to change blades on my 14' saw. I all ready own a 14' Grizzly band saw and generally keep a 1/2' 3TPI blade on it. I bought it to be used as a secondary band saw. I bought one of these last year and it works well for what I do with it.
