Gizy 1023 lubing gears

[Dave Rosner]

It’s been getting increasingly harder to raise my saw blade on my griz 1023 table saw. I assume I need to get in there and clean it out real good.

Do Others find you have to remove the table top to do this periodic maintenance? If i remember correctly it took me a while to get them flush during the original install so I’d like to prevent that if possible.

If not I’m not sure how to get to those gears...

[Matt Day]

It’s easier to get in there and clean and lube with the top off, but then you have to deal with realigning everything. I reach in through the blade opening (blade off of course!) and can do most everything quite well.

[Curt Harms]

How far will compressed air get you? That doesn't require any disassembly and provides an excuse to get an air compressor if you need one. For lube I used 'spray teflon' the last time - a few years ago - and so far so good.

[Dave Rosner]

Thanks for the suggestions. Stupid question but is the gears for raising / lowering the blade pretty obvious? I haven’t dug in too deeply yet with a flash light but when I peered in I didn’t see gears...I’d much rather keep the table attached...

[Lee Schierer]

It looks like you have a segment gear on the raise and tilt and a lead screw. You can use just about any dry lubricant such as the teflon spray already mentioned of the dry chain lube used for bicycle chains. Some folks use paste wax. A wet type lube such as oil or grease will collect sawdust. While you are in the saw check the stops for each direction of motion for compacted sawdust. Don't forget to lube the pivots on bot axis. Check the motor for oil ports on each end above the bearing. If your motor has them a few drops of light machine oil into the hole should be sufficient.

[Curt Harms]

Thanks for the suggestions. Stupid question but is the gears for raising / lowering the blade pretty obvious? I haven’t dug in too deeply yet with a flash light but when I peered in I didn’t see gears...I’d much rather keep the table attached...

Certainly it's better to not remove the top but removing the top is not a huge deal. There are 4 stud bolts holding the center section of the top. The thing to be aware of is that there are typically spacers between those stud bolts and the top. Make sure those spacers are kept in the same places.

[Matt Day]

True Curt, but aligning it is a job in itself. It would however be a good excuse to learn how to do it.

[Curt Harms]

True Curt, but aligning it is a job in itself. It would however be a good excuse to learn how to do it.

If you know how to check miter slot to blade alignment you're most of the way there. That's part of Table Saw Maintenance 101. Unisaw-style table saws are pretty simple beasts, the only tricky part for me is the adjustment for parallel miter slot/blade at both 90^o and 45^o. That's where the spacers (washers) between the cabinet and top come into play.