I'm looking for some information on how much tension should be put on a band mill blade, I know a lot of band mills have the hydraulic pressure gauge for they're tensioners but that's not the info I need since the pressure on the gauge isn't the pressure the blade is actually being tensioned too. My band mill I'm sure is more than capable of tensioning the blade to breakage with very little flex in the saw head so I can put a lot of tension on it I just do not know what's the proper pressure. My tensioner is built with a screw thread and will have a spring between the saw head and the tensioner screw, I want to find a spring that has XXX amount of spring pressure at a certain compressed height, that way when I tension the blade I can just turn the handle until the spring is compressed to that certain height giving me the correct tension on the blade, at my work we have a massive selection of high dollar springs in all different diameters, heights and pressures.