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   JohnWW | Oct 20, 2003 08:00pm | #1

   Virtually all of the 14 inch Taiwanese bandsaws are identical to each other, getting the equivalent part for a Jet, Grizzly, or a Ridgid will most likely solve your problem.  There was a 25 message posting about this a while back, it started at 12016.1.  In that posting the guy ordered Ridgid parts (I think) and they fit perfectly on a saw whose importer could no longer be found

   John W..

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   JDorn | Oct 20, 2003 10:17pm | #2

   Yep i'm the guy from the earlier post, my taiwanese knockoff saw was from a company called Powerkraft (not Powercraft), and i found that parts from a standard Rigid 14" fit almost perfectly.   I did have to do some minor grinding on the upper guide mechanism to keep it from rubbing against the thrust bearing, but it was nothing complicated.

   Just go out to Ridgid and lookup their replacement part section. 

   Parts were reasonable so long as you don't need to replace too many of them.  I think i spent about $150 ish to replace the upper and lower guides completely (including the height bar).