Thread: Jointer bed... your gonna think Im a dumba$$

What is it with you, and your machines. The thicknesser hates you, and now the jointer's turned nasty. You can't be talking to them right.........or maybe they just can't understand your version of the lingo.

Back to question, have you tried a gentle nudge with a sledge hammer?

So I says to myself this bloke Dingo here his thicknesser has ruled a fatwa on him and now the jointer has joined in and I think it must be 400 clicks or so to the nearest jointer drinking hole with only black snakes and the odd roo for company so I reckon this bloke might need some advice.

Trawling through the memory banks I have this nag that maybe I've seen something here on jointer problems and maybe, just maybe I saved it to my favourites - you know like do before ya have too many Emu's on a saturday night when you've got nuthin to do and the missus is makin her way through the craft magazines (gotta get a life)

So I have this little butchers hook and sure enuff I find it and give it a gander. So I'm looking at it and thinking maybe this Ding bloke might just be raisin his outfeed table higher than the arc of the cutter head and maybe this is why he's gettin a taper cut . Maybe I should be sending this Ding bloke the link - just to check before he opens up the thing to give her outback open heart surgery ...

Maybe I'm wrong but it might save him some fartin around in his shed when we know what he really wants to be doin is using those chisels that the Derek touched up for him so here 'tis - jointer primer

Oh well... adjust your gib bolts
try here
http://www.rd.com/americanwoodworker...=1041&pageNo=2
or here
http://www.woodworking.com/article_a...=1&article=227
or
GOOGLE "tuning jointer"
Cheers
Jedo

Thanks fellas

Chris... a sledge hammer???? strewth I want to use the thing not smash it to bits!!

Brett mate that link was good... no worries but he didnt direct his attention to the damned infeed table which is the one causing the latest "fatwa" as you say... now Im gonna be real worried out there!! Whos gonna turn on me next? what do I gotta do to stomp this before it gets out of hand???

Jedo exactly the issue!! the american woodworker link it the one... so I gotta get some brass shims eh? I'll see what I can come up with and have a go tomorrow... mmm may nix that till the FSL turns up to bring the infeed table up to height bloody heavy buggar that one

Another thing is behind the screws you know under the table theres a sorta double U thing where the two Us are facing each other with the open ends facing... anyway I dont know if it makes any diff but thought Id ask... the shims (at least I think thats what they are) in the open end are at the outfeed end in alignment at yet at the infeed end are skewed on an angle I was wondering if that had anything to do with anything?

But cheers I think thats solved that one

sigh

next? oooh thats right the thicknesser... sigh

oh well I can see a visit to somewhere with those dial thingys coming up on the morrow

To help you out old phart I will have some red gum ready at Xmas perhaps we can negotiate to swap timber or other stuff tell me if you are interested

Originally Posted by Wild Dingo

Okay so look I know this must be getting tedious... and I havent even started on the damned thicknesser yet!!

Anyway the jointer cuts on a slant... so what Ive noticed by just having a really good hard sticky beak at the thing is that the infeed table is slanted... so at the fence its right but it steadily slopes downward to the blade cover side... now theres 3 screws with nuts along the edge of the bed as it attaches to the center piece and a screw winder thingy... now the seam between the bed metal and the table metal tapes outward from the bottom to the top... meaning the table is twisted...

I believe this to be an issue of someone (ahem yep your ol matey and his FSL ) has put it together wrong or it has slipped or moved with our moving the thing around the shed,,, I would think it will move back so its level... BUT!! I cant figure it out!!

I have downloaded and printed of the link someone gave me for a manual for a similar jointer... but Im damned if I can figure out which screws to move or what to do to bring the infeed table up and level on the outside edge

So your patience and guidance to resolve this would be appreciated
Cheers
Shane

Dingo
This might be a bit late but if you are still having trouble, you might want to check the table for flatness.
I had a similar problem with my jointer. It's a Taiwanese made 6" machine.
Anyhow after much frustration I ended up running a straight edge across the table and noticed it wasn't dead flat. I pulled it apart and took both tables to a local machine shop who ground them both for me ($44 each).

Replaced them on the jointer and spent a few nights getting both tables aligned with whatever they call the barrell into which the blades are fixed. It took a bit of time and some shim metal carefully placed on the slide. Replace the blades and the machine is sweet now.

It turns out that there was about a 20 thou dish across the table, which as affecting my blade set up - giving me some very ordinary performance of the machine.

Cheers,
Peter