ShawnE Curry
03-06-2014, 1:56 PM
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I posted about this a couple weeks ago. This was my grandfather's saw, given to him for Christmas by my grandmother in 1958.
I replaced the motor bearings earlier this week and just got my Mr Sawdust table installed last night. Table is nice and flat and it's now level with the arm. It was almost perfect when I first set it in place; in retrospect if I had just tightened it down it might have been right on. Spent a few hours tinkering with it before I realized I needed to tighten the nuts a bit from the bottom to help draw it flat to the base while I made the adjustments.
There was a trick to it: assuming you have a level base and the arm is straight, the table would just need to be level with itself. So I used my combination square to carefully position each adjustment nut at exactly the same distance from the cleats, before ever dropping it in place.
I also discovered a trick for realigning the circular "cover plate" and "bearing cap" in the motor. I heard about a lot of people struggling with that; I had the screws back in within about 1/2 hr. I used a few toothpicks to keep the holes aligned, and a couple more between the fan and the "bearing cap" to keep that tight to the "front" of the motor. Then I could use the toothpicks as levers to move the "bearing cap" around until I could start the first screw. I think it actually took longer to draw all four screws tight than it did to start them.
I posted about this a couple weeks ago. This was my grandfather's saw, given to him for Christmas by my grandmother in 1958.
I replaced the motor bearings earlier this week and just got my Mr Sawdust table installed last night. Table is nice and flat and it's now level with the arm. It was almost perfect when I first set it in place; in retrospect if I had just tightened it down it might have been right on. Spent a few hours tinkering with it before I realized I needed to tighten the nuts a bit from the bottom to help draw it flat to the base while I made the adjustments.
There was a trick to it: assuming you have a level base and the arm is straight, the table would just need to be level with itself. So I used my combination square to carefully position each adjustment nut at exactly the same distance from the cleats, before ever dropping it in place.
I also discovered a trick for realigning the circular "cover plate" and "bearing cap" in the motor. I heard about a lot of people struggling with that; I had the screws back in within about 1/2 hr. I used a few toothpicks to keep the holes aligned, and a couple more between the fan and the "bearing cap" to keep that tight to the "front" of the motor. Then I could use the toothpicks as levers to move the "bearing cap" around until I could start the first screw. I think it actually took longer to draw all four screws tight than it did to start them.