Alex Jacobson
04-04-2013, 11:43 AM
First of many questions for you all:
I was given an old 4" Rockwell jointer from my uncle and I've been fixing it up and trying to put it into service in my picture framing business. I mostly need it for edge jointing, for example, lately I've got a whole bunch of walnut and cherry 1x3 s2r2 that I'd like to clean up with it. I got the knives freshly sharpened, installed to the best of my ability (I'm sure not perfect) and it seems to chipping out the cherry big time (more like chunking).
A couple of things: I have a Dayton 1/2 hp single phase ac motor hooked up to it (see pictures). It is 1725 rpm I believe and I'm wondering if that is fast/powerful enough to be effective?
How far away should the motor be from the shaft of the jointer. Right now it is whatever the length of my link belt is (4ft?), but I'm guessing I may have to move it close to increase efficiency. Is there a sweet spot for this?
Also, I took off the aux fence and am going to build a new one if I find I need to do a lot of wide pieces on end.
I've read many jointer knife setup articles and watched youtube videos and it seems the 4" makes it a little trickier because there is less room to work with and only 3 bolts. Any tips?
Thanks so much!
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I was given an old 4" Rockwell jointer from my uncle and I've been fixing it up and trying to put it into service in my picture framing business. I mostly need it for edge jointing, for example, lately I've got a whole bunch of walnut and cherry 1x3 s2r2 that I'd like to clean up with it. I got the knives freshly sharpened, installed to the best of my ability (I'm sure not perfect) and it seems to chipping out the cherry big time (more like chunking).
A couple of things: I have a Dayton 1/2 hp single phase ac motor hooked up to it (see pictures). It is 1725 rpm I believe and I'm wondering if that is fast/powerful enough to be effective?
How far away should the motor be from the shaft of the jointer. Right now it is whatever the length of my link belt is (4ft?), but I'm guessing I may have to move it close to increase efficiency. Is there a sweet spot for this?
Also, I took off the aux fence and am going to build a new one if I find I need to do a lot of wide pieces on end.
I've read many jointer knife setup articles and watched youtube videos and it seems the 4" makes it a little trickier because there is less room to work with and only 3 bolts. Any tips?
Thanks so much!
259003