417 days ago
by woodchips |
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Well I was finally able to go pick the saw up and I’m every bit as excited as I was when I first bought it. I’m going to be doing a bit of work on it before using it. I need to rebuild the right wing extension and I’m going to build a router table into it. I also need to give it a good cleaning inside and lube it with some sort of dry lube (any suggestions?).
The cast iron surface has some very minor rust spots that will need to be removed, what would be the best way t...
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431 days ago
by woodchips |
19 comments »
Well lumberjocks I just had to share my good fortune / blessing (whatever term you prefer) with ya’ll. While I’m going to school I’m working for the Plant Services dept of the university in the carpentry dept. It’s pretty much the perfect job for me and i use it as my stress relief from school work. the carpentry dept is the most called on dept when things go wrong cause we can fix anything, right? well needless to say we get around campus quite a bit and the other...
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628 days ago
by Kevin |
21 comments »
Well I have both a video of the saw with the pulley installed and a video with the pulley pulled off.
It doesn’t show as much in the video as I hoped it would. You can barely see the throat plate moving across the saw with the pulley on. I can assure that it is much worse than the video shows. The biggest difference you notice while standing near it is the sound change from with a pulley to without. I don’t know if the video picks that up or not.
Oh well, I guess it was wort...
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629 days ago
by Kevin |
15 comments »
I ended up having to get the motor worked on. Would have done it myself it I had known it was going to cost me $200. Well, new bearing, new insulation, and a good cleaning.
Now it runs just great.
But, the saw still vibrates too much.
The only thing I can think of to do now is to pull the rotor out of the motor and have it and the pulley balanced together.
Anyone have any other good ideas?
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633 days ago
by Kevin |
6 comments »
I finally got around to checking on getting new pulleys. The guy at the electric motor shop told me to have them balanced instead. So I went to a machine shop and had them balance the pulleys. When I got home, I tried the saw – no pulley and it worked fine. Put the pulley on the motor and vibrating badly again. At this point I was a little ticked that the balancing didn’t work. So I decided I’d take the motor off and take it and the pulley to the motor shop and get their opi...
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633 days ago
by Kevin |
19 comments »
Well,
I finally sat down last night night and drew up the shop. This was the first attempt, so it may change some. Also most of the tools/cabinets are very rough or borrowed. I’ll try to get them better when gets closer to constructing them.
I’ll start you out on the East wall. Most of this is already set in stone you might say. I am planning on putting a pipe rack over the double garage door. May get used for dimensional lumber storage as well. On the left is my double ...
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668 days ago
by Kevin |
2 comments »
I have been suspecting that the guy I bought my saw from did not really know how old it was. The saw was his father-in-laws and he got it when his father-in-law passed away. He said that he knows the dust collector was bought less than two years ago and he thought the saw was bought at the same time. If so, then it wasn’t bought new.
I was afraid the saw was older because of the condition of the table top & fence and the fact that the motor cover was metal and not plastic. Once I...
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672 days ago
by Kevin |
15 comments »
I have decided to put all of this into a blog instead of the forums. Here is a link to the previous forums.
Should I buy this Unisaw? http://lumberjocks.com/topics/1877
Unisaw Advice Needed? http://lumberjocks.com/topics/1989
Well, I finally got pictures of it. I wish I had pictures from before working on it. I have spent a lot of time trying to clean up the cast iron top. I tried to get pictures that show what it looks like, but it is hard to capture.
I picked up a new tape for the ...
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