Brian Kincaid
01-05-2011, 12:18 PM
First things first Holbren's great. My mother bought the cutterhead for me for Christmas.
Ordered new bearings with Byrd head. They pressed on the non-pulley bearing.
You will need:
1) Phillips screwdriver
2) Socket wrench set
3) Metric allen wrench set
4) Snap ring pliers (auto parts store)
5) Rubber mallet
6) Small sledge hammer
7) I cleaned the parts as I went so I won't call that out. No reason to put the machine back together dirty! Wax those tables while you have it all open!
Here is how the install went:
1) Remove front and back cover on the base, 6 screws each
2) Remove fence, one bolt
3) Lower infeed and outfeed table ALL the way, have to loosen bolt-stops to get them down
4) Take off red cutterhead guard, one #4 allen screw
5) Remove rear belt guard, 2 bolts
6) Remove belt, have to loosen and raise motor mount, 4 bolts see note below
7) Unbolt pillow blocks that seat bearings, 2 bolts each
8) Gently pry up pillow block/cutterhead/pully assembly. Watch for shims on either side! Mine had 2 thin shims on the pulley side.
9) Tap off pillow block from non-pulley side. Mine came off easy.
10) Remove pulley, there is a hex bolt on the end of the pulley side shaft. Remove it and the pulley should slide off. Make sure you save the shaft-key!
11) Removing the pulley side pillow block was the most difficult part of the install. I had to set up a rig that let the cutterhead hang from the pillow block so I could hit the shaft of the old cutterhead with a sledge hammer (I was actually hitting a small block of wood to keep from marring the shaft). The shaft will finally break loose and leave the bearing in the pillow-block.
12) Use snap ring pliers to remove the snap-ring that holds the bearing in the pulley-side pillow block.
13) Remove bearing and replace with new bearing. Re-insert snap-ring.
14) Set pulley-side bearing and pillow block on new cutterhead. To seat the bearing slide the pulley over the assembly where it will go and gently tap the pulley with the rubber mallet. When it's seated tap in the shaft-key. The new cutterhead shaft will not extend to the end of the pulley like the old one. Just verify the bearing is fully seated.
15) Screw the allen bolt onto the new shaft. Put the non pulley side pillow block on the assembly. (this bearing was already pressed on by Holbren)
16) Reinstall the assembly into the jointer doing the steps backwards.
Note:
To easily adjust the motor/belt tension I used two jet parallel clamps and a board to span under the motor. Flip the heads around on the jet clamps and use them to push the board up evenly from both sides (raising the motor).
Results:
1. The new cutterhead is MUCH less noisy.
2. Feed is now constant pressure (seems a little harder to push, but is WAY more smooth).
3. I did a face-joint on a piece of junk oak with reversing grain and there was very little tearout. I would have expected a nightmare with the old blades.
4. The new cutterhead and old cutterhead were nearly identical with respect to outfeed table height.
Question:
Does anybody have a part number for a really good belt for this machine? I read somewhere that someone got a good belt from McMaster for around $20 but I don't know the first thing about belts.
Hope this helps somebody down the road.
-Brian
Ordered new bearings with Byrd head. They pressed on the non-pulley bearing.
You will need:
1) Phillips screwdriver
2) Socket wrench set
3) Metric allen wrench set
4) Snap ring pliers (auto parts store)
5) Rubber mallet
6) Small sledge hammer
7) I cleaned the parts as I went so I won't call that out. No reason to put the machine back together dirty! Wax those tables while you have it all open!
Here is how the install went:
1) Remove front and back cover on the base, 6 screws each
2) Remove fence, one bolt
3) Lower infeed and outfeed table ALL the way, have to loosen bolt-stops to get them down
4) Take off red cutterhead guard, one #4 allen screw
5) Remove rear belt guard, 2 bolts
6) Remove belt, have to loosen and raise motor mount, 4 bolts see note below
7) Unbolt pillow blocks that seat bearings, 2 bolts each
8) Gently pry up pillow block/cutterhead/pully assembly. Watch for shims on either side! Mine had 2 thin shims on the pulley side.
9) Tap off pillow block from non-pulley side. Mine came off easy.
10) Remove pulley, there is a hex bolt on the end of the pulley side shaft. Remove it and the pulley should slide off. Make sure you save the shaft-key!
11) Removing the pulley side pillow block was the most difficult part of the install. I had to set up a rig that let the cutterhead hang from the pillow block so I could hit the shaft of the old cutterhead with a sledge hammer (I was actually hitting a small block of wood to keep from marring the shaft). The shaft will finally break loose and leave the bearing in the pillow-block.
12) Use snap ring pliers to remove the snap-ring that holds the bearing in the pulley-side pillow block.
13) Remove bearing and replace with new bearing. Re-insert snap-ring.
14) Set pulley-side bearing and pillow block on new cutterhead. To seat the bearing slide the pulley over the assembly where it will go and gently tap the pulley with the rubber mallet. When it's seated tap in the shaft-key. The new cutterhead shaft will not extend to the end of the pulley like the old one. Just verify the bearing is fully seated.
15) Screw the allen bolt onto the new shaft. Put the non pulley side pillow block on the assembly. (this bearing was already pressed on by Holbren)
16) Reinstall the assembly into the jointer doing the steps backwards.
Note:
To easily adjust the motor/belt tension I used two jet parallel clamps and a board to span under the motor. Flip the heads around on the jet clamps and use them to push the board up evenly from both sides (raising the motor).
Results:
1. The new cutterhead is MUCH less noisy.
2. Feed is now constant pressure (seems a little harder to push, but is WAY more smooth).
3. I did a face-joint on a piece of junk oak with reversing grain and there was very little tearout. I would have expected a nightmare with the old blades.
4. The new cutterhead and old cutterhead were nearly identical with respect to outfeed table height.
Question:
Does anybody have a part number for a really good belt for this machine? I read somewhere that someone got a good belt from McMaster for around $20 but I don't know the first thing about belts.
Hope this helps somebody down the road.
-Brian