Thread: Woodfast Junior Restoration - Advice needed

Originally Posted by bueller

Just finished reading through it all, got a way better idea of how this thing needs to be set up when I'm done now. Cheers!

Got the thrust bearings soaking in some Evaporust now, hopefully they'll yield some identifiers so I can find replacements. Googling hasn't been very helpful thus far but I'm sure I can work out something given I have the originals.

Unsure of the best way to get the bearings out of the wheels at this point too but i'll worry about that later. Probably just need the right tool for the job, i've got pullers on order but they are the three jaw style for pulling bearings off shafts.

They might need to be pressed out - you know where you can do that

Haha awesome, always making my life easier.

Okay so after pulling the parts from the Evaporust it seems the thrust bearing is actually just one piece. Not sure if they changed at some point but some of the discussion online seems to think it's two stacked bearings. So probably not replacing this guy, looks like it was made specifically for this machine.





Got the whole machine stripped back now with the exception of bearings in one wheel and one in the body which I'm pretty sure I can get out, just need some inner circlip pliers.

Off to Bunnings I go!

Oh yeah and Evaporust is pretty much the best thing ever, should have bought some years ago. Put a few less rusted parts in last night and came back 15 minutes later to check on them and they were completely rust free. Not the cheapest stuff but it's re-usable and a 5L should last me several years. I've got a few hand planes to go in over the next few days so I'm really excited to see how they go!

You've probably seen this link but I'll post it just in case you haven't
Woodfast Junior 250 Band saw Manual

All ready for cleaning. My 5 minute trip to Bunnings wound up with me going to Fiora Machinery for a look around, wound up coming home with a bearing press set so I managed to get the last bearing out of the case. Just two left in the upper wheel but they appear to be pressed into the wheel back to back. Completely at a loss regarding how to get them out, they can't be hammered or pressed out because they get in each others way. Only other thing I need to do is grind off the metal notches holding the badges in place, no idea how I'll get them back on but I want to do a good job painting so they'll need to come off for the time being.

They had some cool used machinery in stock at Fiora, a nice Tough branded lathe that looked like it would survive a nuclear war and a couple of really cool looking Hercus metal lathes. Pretty nice people too.

Cheers for that link Lappa, I hadn't actually seen that!

You probably need what is known as an Automotive Spigot/Pilot bearing removal tool. Their designed to remove spigot bearings from a blind hole in crankshafts. They only need a back space of about 10mm for the fingers to grip behind the bearing.

Sweet, was sure there would be something but I didn't know what it was called and Google was failing me. Luckily the wheels aren't getting painted until I've sorted out whether I can actually re-rubber them cheaply so that can wait for the time being. Things are moving along at a good pace now, tomorrow will be spent finishing cleaning all the parts before I apply some paint stripper. Might even get a chance to get a coat of paint on but I'm not going to get too excited just yet haha

Oh yeah and for the purposes of record keeping (I'm sure someone will need to know eventually), there are 2 bearings in the case that attach to the drive shaft and they're identified as follows. I'll post the ID for the wheel bearings when I eventually get them out.

L015P UBCO (Universal Bearing Co.) Australia
Inner Diameter: 15mm
Outer Diameter: 35mm
11mm

Pretty sure I've found replacements on eBay (link below) but I'm going to drive around tomorrow and try to find some local stockists first because Aus Post have been super slow lately.

Japan 6202 2RS 15mm ID X 35mm OD X 11mm Deep Groove Bearings | eBay

Another productive day! Picked up some bearings from Statewide Bearings in Belmont and I had a coupon code in the email from Hare and Forbes so I popped in there to get a machine stand. $37 with the coupon and they threw in an 8m tape measure and a couple of hardened rulers. Needed to buy one anyway so it worked out quite nicely. Only downside is I now have one more thing to strip paint off because I decided against black for the case, going to paint it the same the blue/cream colour scheme that is on the badge (blue for case, cream adjustment hardware).

Regarding #3 - I made new tyres for my Taiwanese bandsaw (brand unknown) from a pair of flat automotive fan belts. They were too long but I cut them to length at a long angle & glued them on with rubber cement. Work well.

Awesome, that's pretty much what I was planning on doing so hopefully I'm on the right track!

Worked on getting the badges off this last night and this morning. Luckily I was able to experiment on the parts machine to figure out the best way to get them off without damaging anything. Found the best way was to grind the surface of the pin flat with a round grinding disc on the dremel and then bore out the middle of it with a conical grinding bit until the edges broke off. Took a lot of patience (which I lack haha) but managed to get them off without any damage