Squeak!

Hmmm, the bandsaw started squeaking and I noticed that it was stopping very promptly when switched off.
Maybe the blade guides need adjusting or a sliver of wood is jammed in there.
Adjust and clean them.... squeeeeeeak.
Remove upper blade guides.....squeeeeak.
Adjust lower blade guides...... squeeeeak.
Remove blade. ..... squeeeeeak.
Grrrrrr.
Remove the lower wheel, ah, the bearings are seized up.
Rinse 'em out with white spirit, WD40 and much waggling about... got 'em freed up.
Re-fit lower wheel, switch on........ squeeeeak!
Bloody idler wheel bearings (the idler tensions the belt) are similarly seized.
Clean them up.... that's fixed that.
Get online to Bearing Boys and order new bearings, yes I noted the numbers on the bearings before re-fitting everything. Bearing Boys are V good compared with getting the bearings from a bandsaw spares site, and they have several grades of bearing in any give size.
That was about mid day, the new bearings turned up about 11am next day!
Got 'em fitted and it's running much smoother now.
I don't begrudge the bandsaw a bit of minor expenditure and time as it has a pretty busy life.

Meanwhile I'm busy making millions of flight arrows.... well that's what it feels like as they are fairly labour intensive.
I've done some tweaking of the two boo/yew flight bows so that they'll both be shooting 27" arrows at 50#. I hope to do a direct comparison on Sunday if I've got some arrows done and we aren't off on a family jaunt 'cos it's Easter.

My mate JT was over too and he had a relatively new warbow that he felt was iffy and in need of a re-tiller, so we attacked that! Video here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqB3XLRKNb8