Jerry Ingraham
07-14-2004, 12:53 PM
Good Morning Everyone,
In an effort to save myself some cash right now, I'm re-hab'ing my 13 year old Grizzly 6" jointer. I have so far replaced the bearings on the cutterhead shaft, ordered machined pulleys/link belt, and now need to flatten the infeed and outfeed tables. I went to a machine shop and they had no way to do it. I went to two different automotive machine shops and they couldn't either (no way to hold them in their surface grinders). I know this can be done, am I looking in the wrong places or is their some way I can accomplish this myself? The out feed table isn't bad maybe .002 - .004 low in spots, but the infeed table has a spot about 10" long, 6" back from the cutterhead which is about .010 - .012 low. Is there a home remedy for this?
Secondly, how do you compensate for table sag in the dovetail ways? I do not know but I suspect that the outfeed may sag. Do you simply shim it with shim stock? Since the outfeed table isn't moved very much I would think the shim stock would be fine.
Lastly, as it relates to coplaner alignment, do you align the infeed table to the cutterhead and then the out feed to the infeed? Can that be done with winding sticks or is a dial indicator a must?
There, that's it for now, though I'm sure there will be more questions to come and I really appreciate your help.
Jerry
In an effort to save myself some cash right now, I'm re-hab'ing my 13 year old Grizzly 6" jointer. I have so far replaced the bearings on the cutterhead shaft, ordered machined pulleys/link belt, and now need to flatten the infeed and outfeed tables. I went to a machine shop and they had no way to do it. I went to two different automotive machine shops and they couldn't either (no way to hold them in their surface grinders). I know this can be done, am I looking in the wrong places or is their some way I can accomplish this myself? The out feed table isn't bad maybe .002 - .004 low in spots, but the infeed table has a spot about 10" long, 6" back from the cutterhead which is about .010 - .012 low. Is there a home remedy for this?
Secondly, how do you compensate for table sag in the dovetail ways? I do not know but I suspect that the outfeed may sag. Do you simply shim it with shim stock? Since the outfeed table isn't moved very much I would think the shim stock would be fine.
Lastly, as it relates to coplaner alignment, do you align the infeed table to the cutterhead and then the out feed to the infeed? Can that be done with winding sticks or is a dial indicator a must?
There, that's it for now, though I'm sure there will be more questions to come and I really appreciate your help.
Jerry