Thread: Tool issues for Harry an others to ponder

Jointer, sounds like the blades/cutter head is not in line with the in/outfeed tables, 2 ways around it set the blades using the outfeed table as a reference or shim the rear side bearing pillow block.
Any crack in pulleys should be replaced, its good to go with machined pulleys rather than cast but they are quite expen$ive.

Thicknesser, sounds like your in/out feeding rollers are not adjusted for hardwood(4 big black flathead grub screws on top!)they need to be adjusted/screwed inwards as it increases the pressure applied by the springs under the screws, I mainly only adjust only the serrated infeed roller 1 1/2~2turns between soft and hard woods.
Or is your outfeed table adjusted to high... its about 1' into the machine!
Another problem I've found with my machine is the sharp edge of the casting just after the bed rollers(bottom ones), if you wood has the slightest dip at the start it catches on this... Im tempted to file a relief on these edges. You can get around this by raising the rollers... but you'll end up with bad snipe!

The small rubber strip, is it about 80mm wide and in the middle, its not rubber its metal and its a limiter. On mine it only let you take 1.5mm max passes depending at what height the blades are set in the cutter block... its not there anymore.
Just remember about it though as with it removed its possible to do a 5mm pass, not a prob with say a 100mm wide piece of pine but hardwood will stall the machine.
I've put a small mark on one of the post's to show me 2mm from the lower edge of the casting, I compare the wood to this so as not too remove more than 3mm.
Personally if I only worked in hard wood I would have not removed it as this machine only has 2hp, thats not enough for a 150mm wide 3mm deep pass in hardwood!

Dust extraction on the TSC10hb is its only achillies heel, the only real way is to increase the size of the pipe to 5" or greater and dont block up all the holes as this counteracts draughting... you dont get air flow from a sealed chamber! Seems to me we are only extracting what the blade throws off, the dusty doesnt suck the dust away from the blade itself, so a cross draught seems logical... I see it everyday at work with fume( mind you our dusty flows massive amounts... its driven by a 860KW 600V DC motor, sucking about 1300amps!)
The top you need and overhead guard with a decent sized extraction point, ie 4".

Cheers Harry...

Will find and purchase another pulley ASAP and I will go with setting by the outfeed table first and if its still givin me curry will go the other way

Mate Im mostly using Jarrah of late or Kapur or Duran (Meranti I beleive its alternative AUssie name is) and only occasionally throw some soft wood through it so will change the settings... I havent got into the larger peices yet so still working with the little 6in wide bits have to cut them down from their 15ft lengths but havent gone the 12in x 20ft Sepiature yet... went through the small 12in thicknesser last year easy as but this thing Im just not sure its gonna handle them... and yes Ive found the snipe issue! and I will leave that "rubber" thing where it is then

I had a feeling it was something like that with the table saw as this is the only machine that I have issues with the dust collection.. looking inside the bin is just plain interesting isnt it? I mean its not a wonder were getting dust coming out of the handles!

All in all I would say Im mediocrely happy with them but disappointed in other ways... so much money so many hassles eh You know I was thinking tonight that by the time I finally get the buggars sorted and working properly it will be time to fork out all over again and buy NEW ones... and by crikey next time I wont be going cheep!!... not that the cost was actually cheep but well theyre proving the old addage that you get what you pay for when you buy chingalese

Anyway cheers mate

Sounds like the jointer blades are misaligned. Somewhat fiddly to get right. Monkeying with the pillow block(s) doesn't seem a great idea unless really necessary. For a temporary workaround, set the cut to half of what you want, and run through twice, once each direction. Second bastoid cut will compensate for the first. This will only work with timber that doesn't mind cutting against the grain.

Joe

Hi WD

I made some mods to my TSC10HB and this is how well she sucks




The mods are here if interested;

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ighlight=dusty

cheers

dazzler

Yep Dazzler

I DEFINANTLY ABSOFRIGGINLUTELY HAVE TO DO THAT!!

Great setup mate!