Trevor Walsh
04-18-2011, 3:28 PM
I've got an old 14" Powermatic in the school shop, about a year ago it got a new upper axle and bearings, and har ran for several months no problem, then after waiting a few months for new blades and installing them, it started tracking poorly and would run the blade off the back side of the top wheel. I checked the coplanarity of the wheels, sure enough the guy before me who did the axle swap must not have checked that and they were about 3/8" out of plane.
I made a spacer that shims out the top wheel and they are now coplanar, will that be the end of my worries or might there be more to it than that?
I made a spacer that shims out the top wheel and they are now coplanar, will that be the end of my worries or might there be more to it than that?