Aaron Mills
10-11-2005, 11:14 PM
I'm in the middle of a rebuild of a General 480 8" jointer and am encountering some problems with the table adjustments. Using handwheels, I should be able to lower and raise the tables, but this does not work. The jointer is dovetailed and uses gibs.
On both the infeed and outfeed tables, the table raising/lowering mechanism was disengaged by the previous owner. Having gone over the exploded parts diagram from General, as well as the parts list, there doesn't appear to be anything missing; however, I did notice a threaded hole on both tables that would seem to engage the table adjusting mechanism. Still waiting to hear back from General if there is indeed a missing part, or if I'm misunderstanding how the table adjustment mechanism should work.
I'm hoping someone out there either has experience with the General jointers or might be able to provide a little insight into the table raising mechanisms used on dovetailed jointers with handwheels.
Also, any suggestions on the removal of either glue or pitch build-up from the cast iron? I'm not sure which it is, I just not that it led to a lot of sawdust building up into hard blocks.
NOTE: Would try OWWM, but I haven't found a great response or as much help as on SMC with my previous posts, so I'm posting here.
On both the infeed and outfeed tables, the table raising/lowering mechanism was disengaged by the previous owner. Having gone over the exploded parts diagram from General, as well as the parts list, there doesn't appear to be anything missing; however, I did notice a threaded hole on both tables that would seem to engage the table adjusting mechanism. Still waiting to hear back from General if there is indeed a missing part, or if I'm misunderstanding how the table adjustment mechanism should work.
I'm hoping someone out there either has experience with the General jointers or might be able to provide a little insight into the table raising mechanisms used on dovetailed jointers with handwheels.
Also, any suggestions on the removal of either glue or pitch build-up from the cast iron? I'm not sure which it is, I just not that it led to a lot of sawdust building up into hard blocks.
NOTE: Would try OWWM, but I haven't found a great response or as much help as on SMC with my previous posts, so I'm posting here.