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The brochure says the saw was supplied with a 2hp 2 speed motor - 860/1725 rpm. Is that still on it? That'd be OK for a VFD if the drive pulley diameter were reduced a bit. If the VFD were connected to the low speed windings, the motor could run at 25% with a bimetal blade and still cut...

An interior storm window insert could reduce the U factor enough to get it into compliance. Most push into place and are held there by either the weatherstripping or by hardware store clips. The bigger question is whether the inspector would allow it.

Yes, they had the parts I needed, for a saw made in 1947! They had everything I needed in stock, but that was quite a few years ago so things may have changed. Sorry I misidentified your saw, didn't know it even existed. Here's the Grob brochure on it...

Yup, that's my line of thought, too.

The issue isn't really whether the cellulose is touching the metal, it's that the metal doesn't allow moisture out evenly.

It's a Grob NS18, excellent saw. Blade tension is set with that handwheel-with-knob thing in the 1st pic with the wires looped over it. Blade length is 144". Parts dwg is here: https://grobbandsaw.com/ Look under the drawings tab. There were 3 different versions of the NS18, serial # is key...

Tony Griffith's site has a listing for this lathe: https://www.lathes.co.uk/bausch&lomb/ According to him, made between 1900 and 1910.

In your area, where heating degree days exceed cooling degree days, packing cellulose against the outside metal is theoretically OK, so long as the vapor barrier on the inside is perfect, and the metal sealing on the outside is perfect. The problem? It never is. Moisture is transported by air...