Warren Lake
10-15-2017, 1:38 PM
working on a small slider and cleaning and making small improvements ill post some photos later.
Endless questions as I go both the slider being new to me and then on some service aspects. what ive done so far makes sense then I come to the actual out rigger arm and wonder about that. IM not sure how it comes apart and if it even needs to, looking under it I see plastic rollers on the end but figure there are bearings inside. Does this all come apart well or do you also disturb all the settings it would be nice to get it running based on how it was set up then adjust as needed from there. I see where it pivots on the saw there is lots of dirt and junk on those bearings but they also move very nicely and have no play in them they should be fine for now. its more the inside part that pulls out and if there is service to that its fairly smooth not perfect.
Second thought the sliding table itself has two sets of three bearings. They are caked and maybe one or two almost have grooves worn in them I wont know till I clean it all well. I tried to remove one bearing and while it loosens it wont come out. These are on an cam thing as you turn the allen screw it moves the bearing so I get that then same thing if i was able to get them out then I disturb the whole set up. Ill start with cleaning first as best as I can to see it and understand it better. Should these things just pull out once the allen screws are undone they move like they will then stick maybe it just years of dirt. None of the bearings feel loose so far. Are these some sort of stock bearings that slip on or is it a whole you have to replace the bearing and what its attached to. I cant see you have to replace the whole assembly at least I hope not. Be nice if they are stock bearings that fit onto the metal portion then slide them in and re set up.
the simple clean up stuff has all gone well plus looking at things you see some common sense stuff like sharp edges here so when you move this it binds a bit knock them off etc all the cleaning and waxing on the bars good improvements so far. Thanks to Jack Forsberg for the Scotchbrite on the grinder trick working very well on the rust level this has. found you can cut six pieces from one sheet for this size cup wheel and use both sides. One thought is the cup wheel only puts pressure around the edges so it would be nice to have a wheel that is solid wire all inside to make full benefit of the scotchbrite will have to look and see if there are wheels that are made that way.
And on this machine do you always work your material behind the fence. Ive always worked the other way around on what I had seems to me they make it this way but you have to flip the bar it travels on around if that was to work not so important now ill set it up as it was first of all.
thanks
Endless questions as I go both the slider being new to me and then on some service aspects. what ive done so far makes sense then I come to the actual out rigger arm and wonder about that. IM not sure how it comes apart and if it even needs to, looking under it I see plastic rollers on the end but figure there are bearings inside. Does this all come apart well or do you also disturb all the settings it would be nice to get it running based on how it was set up then adjust as needed from there. I see where it pivots on the saw there is lots of dirt and junk on those bearings but they also move very nicely and have no play in them they should be fine for now. its more the inside part that pulls out and if there is service to that its fairly smooth not perfect.
Second thought the sliding table itself has two sets of three bearings. They are caked and maybe one or two almost have grooves worn in them I wont know till I clean it all well. I tried to remove one bearing and while it loosens it wont come out. These are on an cam thing as you turn the allen screw it moves the bearing so I get that then same thing if i was able to get them out then I disturb the whole set up. Ill start with cleaning first as best as I can to see it and understand it better. Should these things just pull out once the allen screws are undone they move like they will then stick maybe it just years of dirt. None of the bearings feel loose so far. Are these some sort of stock bearings that slip on or is it a whole you have to replace the bearing and what its attached to. I cant see you have to replace the whole assembly at least I hope not. Be nice if they are stock bearings that fit onto the metal portion then slide them in and re set up.
the simple clean up stuff has all gone well plus looking at things you see some common sense stuff like sharp edges here so when you move this it binds a bit knock them off etc all the cleaning and waxing on the bars good improvements so far. Thanks to Jack Forsberg for the Scotchbrite on the grinder trick working very well on the rust level this has. found you can cut six pieces from one sheet for this size cup wheel and use both sides. One thought is the cup wheel only puts pressure around the edges so it would be nice to have a wheel that is solid wire all inside to make full benefit of the scotchbrite will have to look and see if there are wheels that are made that way.
And on this machine do you always work your material behind the fence. Ive always worked the other way around on what I had seems to me they make it this way but you have to flip the bar it travels on around if that was to work not so important now ill set it up as it was first of all.
thanks