| Re: TUESDAY 26 JULY |
Subject: Re: TUESDAY 26 JULY by teebee on 2022/7/26 14:04:09 Morning guys... well yesterday was one big pile of sh!t. All my plans got changed minutes after going out to the shop. Thought I was going to cut 5 boards, simple job. I made the first cut was fine. Went to the table saw to make the second cut and pushed the start button and all the saw did was "Hummmmm" then silent (kicked breaker) Try to spin the blade by hand and it's tight, check a few things out and determine the motor has to come off to go to a motor shop. This is NOT an easy chore. Cabinet I built under saw table extension has to be disconnected and moved, motor cover removed and dust cleaned out. Then bolts removed, a pin that the motor pivots on has to be pulled. Motor spins freely, so thinking it is a start/run capacitor, simple enough, but I decide it needs to be checked out by the motor shop (half hour away in the 'city'. To get this far has taken us 3 hours. With the motor out, I decide to check the arbor bearings...I have suspected they were getting bad, as when it gets cold, I hear a slight squeal on startup. Yup, they are BAD...not sure how they were even running as well as they were. Luckily for me, I anticipated they were needing replaced and ordered a new arbor/bearings kit last fall. Thinking this would be an easy swap, I think I'll swap this out before I run to the 'city' to drop off the motor. EASY swap? NO freaking way....limited space, inaccessibility and rust is holding everything tight. I finally get the arbor out and the bearing and spacer are almost welded to the arbor on the one end. So I start soaking the spacer (the only part still on there that I needed) with penetrating oil. soak it for more than an hour, try, no go, soak and sit, try no go. Put a little heat to it, no go. Decide to let it soak while I run to the 'city' to drop motor and when I come back it will 'fall apart'. When I get tot the 'city' I have three choices in motor shops, all within three blocks of each other, so stop at the first one "Our tech is out on lunch and we don't usually do 'small motors'" This is a 60lb 3hp motor, they deal mostly with 100-150hp motors. So I stop at the next one, locked up tight for lunch (I guess). So head to the third one, the guy in there is a flunky, but says they'll look at it 'sometime'. I say is the boss out for lunch? Yes. Will he be back soon? Should be. OK I'll be back. So I go down to the grocery store and call Rosie, "do you need anything?" No not really. So we go back down to wait for the 'boss' sit there for almost an hour, finally go in and ask the flunky if the boss is coming back. Sometimes he doesn't come back until closing time....so I told him I was taking the motor and going back down the street. So back to stop 2 and they are open and the tech there looked quickly aat it and says he'll look at it...in 2 or 3 days. So we run back home to find the spacer and bearing still tight. My puller wouldn't budge it. So I decide to take it to the parts store to see if they can press it off....nope, but came up with a solution that would work. Then went down to where #2 works (County road and bridge shop) and her boss (former student) says let me try, and within a few minutes has it off. So we go home and are able to put the thing back together. Just in time for me to go out to mens night golf, which was not too good this week. Weather is predicted to be much cooler this week. |
