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#1 ·
Tool Gloat

I got this tool at a GREAT price on craigslist about a year ago. I actually remember the day. I was listening to the Hokie game on the radio on the way back from my purchase and I literally RAN into the house to see my Hokies complete one of the greatest comeback drives I've witnessed in my 15 years of watching Hokie football. Tyrod Taylor had lofted an 80 yard pass to Danny Coale against Nebraska and was about to complete the comback with an amazing scramble and touchdown pass just a couple plays later.

The football season hasn't been as kind to us Hokies so far this year, but that's another story. Back to woodworking. Here is the 8" Grizzly jointer I bought (i added the mobile base myself):


It was unfortunately stored in a shed with a dirt floor and LOTS of air circulation. While no water leaked on it, I think there was enough air circulation for morning dew to settle on the cast iron. Here is a shot of the bed:


And a shot of the fence (sorry for the awkward angle, its all I've got):


The motor supposedly runs, but these are original 15 year old bearings and will need replacing (same hods true for the cutter head):


It is pretty bad, but I was confident that I could clean it up reasonably well. My bigger concern was with the cutter head. The rust is pretty bad. It got the head, the screws, and the blades:


All the threaded parts were pretty bad.


A soak in evaporust cleaned it up well:


The bed height adjustment rods were PURE rust: They got the evapo rust treatment too and a coat of paint:


one more shot:


More posts to come soon (ok, more like eventually). I'm working hard to get up to speed on my blogs that I fell behind on this summer, but this is prime woodworking weather so the blogs will wait when the highs are in the 50s-70s. Enjoy and feel free to ask questions!
 
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#2 ·
aaah, finally, the jointer posts! sweet.

now that was definitely a big task to take dealing with all that rust, but nothing seems pitted and impossible to clean properly.

looking forward to hearing it humm
 
#4 ·
Love these resurrection from the dead threads.Take lots of pics!
It looks like it will clean up very nicely now that someone who cares has it..you have done a great job so far.
Will you change to a spiral cutter head???
 
#5 ·
Living 15 minutes from and having a daughter attending James Madison University…go DUKES!

This looks like a nice find, nice addition to the shop! Question on the bearings; Are the making noise? If not you may not need to replace them. Hopefully the rust will not seem as bad after removal.
 
#11 ·
Scott,
No plans to change the cutterhead at the moment. I'm trying to complete this project without buying anything more than some bearings and a pair of belts. Depending on how involved the bearing replacement process is, I might need to replace the cutterhead though. Not sure. (-:
 
#13 ·
Some rust removal progress! (lots of pictures)

This past weekend my wife was nice enough to forgo her own hobby to watch our daughter and I got about 8 hours in the garage to work. I'm desperate to get as much done on my jointer as possible because as you can see, it is completely stealing my wife's parking spot (but it is shinier than the car!).



I'm going to try and explain the processes I went through while providing before and after. Sorry the shots aren't from a consistent angle. I didn't really plan that part out too well, but hopefully you guys still find this useful.

The fence
To clean the fence, I detached all the hardware. Then I gave it a spray wil diluted phosphoric acid (I diluted a product made by T-9). While wearing gloves, glasses, and working outside, I scrubbed the surface with 300 grit wet/dry sandpaper. It didn't take very long to get through the rust. Once it was done, I wiped it off, and gave it a quick spray with WD-40 and a clean sheet of 300 grit. Finally, I wiped that off and applied some T-9 Boeshield.





The table attachments
The table attachments were small enough to fit in 1 gallon of evaporust so I did that. It got a similar treatments, but a little different. After the soak, I wipe it off, then spray it with WD-40 to get the solution I couldn't get with a paper towel. Wipe off the WD-40 and then a spray with boeshield to protect it.





The cutter head and parts
These all got the evaporust treatment. Afterward I sprayed it with WD-40 so that it doesn't re-rust. I will need to get the bearings off to replace them. Just a note for others. I was reading on OWWM.com that no bearings should be used for more than 10 years without maintenance or replacement (as appropriate). I might need some help from you guys to get the bearings swapped out though. The blades will get a sharpening at a later date.







The jointer bed
This is a tough one for me. You can probably see a little rust returned. I think I might have left the top exposed too long before protecting it (i think the acid solution might have been a bit too dilute and might have to get redone). Overall, its still pretty good. I did the same thing that I did with the fence above.





Left to do
Redo the one side of the bed that has some rerusting
I need to work on replacing the motor bearings.
All the small parts and hardware need a fresh coat of paint to prevent future rust
Derust these parts (if I can figure out how to disassemble them)

Go through the setup process to assemble it and tune it.
Attach a dust collection shroud to the discharge chute

Still a long way to go, but I think I can be done in the next couple of months. So many competing priorities. What do you guys think? Any suggestions going forward? Has this been helpful so far? I hope you are enjoying these posts.
 
#24 ·
And I'm stuck

It's been a while since I posted an update. Things around the home have eaten up all my spare time, but I recently took my jointer knives out to be sharpened. They came back looking really good and I was excited to get them installed. This project is so close to being done, I just really need to press onward. Unfortunately, while trying to do so, I noticed a problem, so I'll explain what I did and maybe someone can help me with my trouble.

I bought a piece of glass at habitat restore for 50 cents. I put that piece on my outfeed bed and inserted the knife springs, knife gib, and cutter knife into the cutterhead. I pressed the blade into the recess and tightened the gib just enough to hold the blade from popping out under the pressure of the springs. then i adjusted the set screws (already in place on the cutterhead) to slowly force the blade back out. I'd rock the cutter back and forth until the blade just BARELY contacted the glass, so that I'd know the blades were level with the outfeed table. once I got the height just right, I tightened down the gib and all seemed fine until….

I went to turn the cutterhead so that I could install the 2nd of 3 knives and it hit the infeed table. I thought that maybe the problem was that I had the infeed table positioned as low as possible to give me room to work, so I raised it and thankfully it cleared (but barely). It seemed like I would just be limited to shallow passes on this machine until I rotated it a little further, only to find that then the blade got stuck on the outfeed bed as well. That bed was set as high as it could go. Maybe lowering it might help, but that doesn't seem to be the right decision.

Am I missing something?Shouldn't the jointer be able to function with the outfeed at full height and the infeed at any height? What could be causing this? I don't have an expensive level to check the beds for perfect parallel, but they seems to be quite flat based on sighting down the beds. I would think there would be a little tolerance built in that I should be able to rotate the cutterhead without a problem. I know that pictures would probably help, but I don't have a camera at the moment. Anyone have any ideas?
-JC
 
#25 ·
Are you sure the knifes are totally seated? Maybe there's some gunk down there that built up over time? I'm kind of perplexed with your question, as well. Did the jointer function normally before with the outfeed table at full height? Thank goodness you didn't fire it up;) I had a SC 6" and now a PM 6", so I don't know a whole lot about jointers. I'm sure someone here can help. Try PM'ing Loren or MedicKen if they miss this post. Good luck!

Edit: if it's gunk, that SeaFoam Deep worked best for me after trying about half a dozen different products.
 
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