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Post by Jeff Farris on May 4, 2014 13:15:41 GMT
You figured it out while I was sleeping, Rob. The arm of the machine can be positioned around the axis of the motor shaft at anywhere in about an 85 degree arc, from vertical to nearly horizontal. I keep the back bolt just snug enough to allow movement. This lets me quickly adjust the arm by backing off the front bolt, adjust, secure bolt, go.
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Post by paulm on May 9, 2014 14:12:53 GMT
Good points Graham made earlier about having to dismount the table to use the gouge jig. It is annoying and it looks to be possible to manufacture it to have the table and angle setting bracket mounted higher up the arm to leave more clear space for gouge sharpening below ? To make it slightly quicker taking the table on and off I've ground a few turns off of the securing bolt as it was protruding through the arm bracket unnecessarily and so was taking a few extra turns more than necessary to tighten and undo. Saves all of two or three seconds each time ! I have thought about grinding a bit more of the right hand side of the table away, where it sits back behind the front of the belt and makes it difficult to remove and remount belts without undoing the table. Just creating anothe quarter inch or so of clearance to the right might make all the difference without sacrificing too much useful support area ? Will take another look next time I'm out in the workshop... Cheers, Paul
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Post by Graham on May 11, 2014 10:06:35 GMT
Yes Paul. I have also considered grinding of that small area of table. The belt can, just about, be changed as it is so it wouldn't take much to improve things.
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Post by paulm on May 11, 2014 10:31:01 GMT
I'm still hesitating Graham, decided to wait and see if I do actually ever use or need that sticky out bit of the table, only thing I can think of is when passing something long across the face of the belt but even then it may not be necessary and I can't think what I would be doing in that way anyway. Tempting !
Perhaps Jeff has some thoughts on why it's designed that way in case we're missing something that we haven't thought of ?
Cheers, Paul
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Post by Graham on May 11, 2014 16:16:22 GMT
I suppose it is possible that it is there to take any spring out of the platform ( angle iron type thing ) but its pretty chunky anyway.
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Post by woodman on May 13, 2014 20:08:05 GMT
Extraction should not be done without a proper spark trap. Rob, stand your arm more upright, and that should eliminate the interference between a bowl gouge and the switch. Similarly on the skew, I lay it almost all the way down, but find on some tools if I bring it back up a little, it clears better. Like I said in the other thread, you guys need to get in the habit of using your side guards. There are all sorts of nasty little pinch points in there for the belt to pull your fingers in to. I felt the same urge when I first started using the ProEdge, but repetition makes the process of aligning the guard less fiddly. Please...use it. Hi I also found the belt cover a bit of a pain and got round the problem by replacing the bottom wing nut with a Stud. This does three things it stops the cover falling off when both studs are removed, it gives easy alignment when replacing it and only one wing bolt the remove and replace. oh and with a bit of practice it can be done one handed :-)
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Post by woodbloke on Jun 8, 2014 16:29:58 GMT
OK chaps, had a little play around yesterday with the new jig for grinding plane and chisel blades. I did a couple of mods which seem to make it much more effective, the first being to file around a mm off the bottom of the male 'tongue' which engages in the slot on the base plate. Prior to this, the jig could actually rock, or pivot which made it a bit of a pain to use. The second mod was to remove the metal 90deg bar at the side and replace it with a piece of much longer 6mm thick acrylic. Assuming that the jig is used at 25deg for rough grinding, this means that there's more sideways support for the blades. The base of the jig is still too far away from the belt though, so I may end up making a completely new jig to be used specifically at 25deg - Rob
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Post by phoneman on Jul 27, 2014 4:45:45 GMT
Interesting and informative thread.
Ken
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