Timbuck
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I had a visit by "Three Wise Men" bearing gifts to my humble workshop yesterday It was Pete Howlet and two of his trusty servants ... it was the first time in 9 or 10 years of comunicating on the web that we had actually met in person.. We exchanged a few uke building items and stuff that I don't need anymore, and we had a very enjoyable time like guys do in a man shed ..One of the items that was gifted to me was a clapped out "Jet 10-20 plus" drum sander thicknesserer ... Pete was fed up with it and had bought a new super dooper king size sander to replace this one...the conveyor motor was dead ..the conveyor belt was all gnarled down the edges due to tracking problems and the winding up and down mechanism was non existant due to the stripped thread problem. He said I could sort it out and sell it if I wanted....Today I had a good look at it and fully stripped it down to the base..The conveyor motor was working off the machine so I had look at what the problem was with it..It was a simple error that stopped it working the motor spindle had a flat spot where the roller grub screw was supposed to bite into but whoever fitted the motor had missed the flat bit and the grub screw was biting into the round part of the spindle and had worn a groove all the way round...also a support bearing on the drive roller was badly worn causing the tracking problems....the main slides were jammed and it took a lot of work to get the main motor bracket off the slides ..i found they were gummed up with a stiff mixture of sawdust and old grease and i had to use a solvent to clean away the gunge..anyway that was about all that was wrong with it..So I gave every thing a good clean and rebuilt it..I fitted one of my repair kits to the stripped lug on the main arm..and a couple of hours later I gave it a quick set up and a test run ...I have ordered a new conveyor belt and a replacement roller bearing which i'll fit later..but all in all it's now good running machine and i'm thinking of running it in tandem with my other jet 10-20 with two different grades of abrasive one course and one fine.
I managed to get it accurate across the platern to within a couple of thou..Not bad for wood work...Here is a little Video of it working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFYI35keAo
I managed to get it accurate across the platern to within a couple of thou..Not bad for wood work...Here is a little Video of it working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFYI35keAo
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