Same idea, different machine. A blade rack with both needs both.
People occasionally ask whether one machine can sharpen circular and band blades. It cannot, and the reason is mechanical rather than commercial: the two blade types are indexed and supported in completely different ways.
A circular blade is mounted on an arbor and indexed tooth by tooth as it rotates. The machine has to support the blade concentrically, index by pitch and present the tooth at a set angle. Machine capacity is expressed as diameter range, bore size, pitch and thickness.
A band blade is fed through guides in a straight line, with a feed pawl indexing one tooth per stroke. Capacity is expressed as blade width, pitch and thickness. Nothing about this mechanism transfers to a circular blade.
The difference in scale is substantial, which is what makes covering both practical for most shops.
Start with whichever blade type stops production most often. For metal cutting workshops that is usually band blades, and a WK1170 on a bench solves it for very little. For mills and panel plants it is usually circular blades, where the WK450 covers most racks and the WK026 covers the rest.
Set the geometry deliberately, take minimum stock, keep the wheel dressed, and sharpen on an interval rather than on failure. The mechanism differs, the discipline does not.
The WK1170 runs from an ordinary 220 V single phase socket, which matters in workshops where a 380 V supply would need an electrician and a wait. The WK450 needs 3 phase 380 V at 50 Hz. Confirm your supply with us before ordering and we configure the machine accordingly.
A 32 kg bench machine that puts band blade sharpening next to the saw.
A 130 kg workshop machine that resharpens blades up to 450 mm in minutes.
PLC controlled resharpening for circular blades from 80 mm up to 800 mm.
No. The two blade types are supported and indexed in fundamentally different ways, so they need different machines.
Whichever blade type stops production most often. In metal cutting workshops that is usually band blades.
No. The WK1170 runs on 220 V single phase at 250 W.
15 to 50 mm wide, 2 to 25 mm pitch and up to 8 mm thick.
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