I have a 14" Jet bandsaw that I use quite a bit. One thing that began to irritate me was that the wood that I was sawing or resawing would catch on the bed after it passed over the throat plate. The throat plate sets a few thousands below the saw bed and the blade would leave some splinters of wood on the stock. This would stick on that tiny difference between the bed and the plate. I cut a playing card spacer (you can see the white piece near the blade/

I bought some plastic zero clearance plates, but they were the same thickness as the aluminum. 

It cuts much better with the spacer in there.

Is the throat plate designed that way for a reason?

Am I not seeing something about this set up?

Thanks for your thoughts)

Ron

I had the same problem with mine. It is a used enco I picked up for $40.00. I did the card spacer under it, and like you it helped a lot. The rest of the remedy I did was to take a piece of clear packing tape, and brought it up to the back of the blade and smoothed it on the table. Seems to act as a lubricant and allows the wood to slide smoothly. Hope this helps you. You do have to replace the tape and clean up is a since with a little lacquer thinner on a rag. It removes any residue from the the tape and takes very little to do so.

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Wayne Mahler
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I've been living with the same problem for years. Thanks for the "Fixes"!

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