Thread: The ongoing saga of the ML392

Thanks for everyones input whilst I was trying to resolve my little problem.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobR

We also need a maintenance manual. But we work with what we have.

Bob

This thread is probably the best maintenance/repair manual around now.

FWIW, H&F had the 12" version of this for sale at a reduced price, with a tag saying "Thicknesser feed doesn't work". Perhaps a bargain for someone who has had experience fixing this problem.

Sitting silently watching you poor buggers suffer, it's pretty amazing how the problems on my el-cheapo generic 12" thicknesser were identical.... chain jumping bearings gone etc.

Touch wood, the replacement bearings seem to be holding up, but I treat it pretty gently too! My chain was actually stretched, whether as a result of everything seizing after the bearing failure or not I don't know, but I bought a new pair anyway.

Hope all get repaired in due course.

Cheers,

P

Perhaps a bargain for someone who has had experience fixing this problem

PASS!!!!!!!!

The motor on mine just stopped today. I was running some 110mm oregon through in thicknesser mode and only taking off about 1mm at a time. It just died one one pass and after I dropped the table down , it kicked back into life. Then , after a few more passes, it died again, this time for good. I've taken off the cover and found it to be very hot inside, particularly the motor. I'll wait until it coools down to see if it's over heated. One of those rubber rings on the feed roller had come off too. :confused:

Gumby,
you're really in trouble now, no carport or coffee table when the better half gets home.

Mick

Well it must have been overheating due to the rubber ring coming off. I left it for an hour or so and finished the work just fine. Maybe there's a cut off / overload switch in it ? I don't know much about these motors

And Mick, I'm back in the good books........did the vacuuming while she was at work...........then went back to the garage

Gumby, sure hope that you are not the first to introduce another challenge with this product. Mine has been working great since the bearings were replaced.

Originally Posted by BobR

Gumby, sure hope that you are not the first to introduce another challenge with this product. Mine has been working great since the bearings were replaced.

me too Bob. The problem i have or maybe had, is in the motor so it's not really an ML 392 problem as such. That's a pretty generic motor which would be in lots of other products. I just can't figure out why it stopped, unless there's a problem with the safety switch. Anyway, it's back online so I'll let you all know if she goes again.

Originally Posted by Gumby

Well it must have been overheating due to the rubber ring coming off. I left it for an hour or so and finished the work just fine. Maybe there's a cut off / overload switch in it ? I don't know much about these motors

And Mick, I'm back in the good books........did the vacuuming while she was at work...........then went back to the garage

I suspect there is a temp. cutout switch in there, there seem to be interlock switches to prevent running with various things open.

And didn't you read the sign on your dust collector that says not to use it as a vacuum cleaner?

Guess what I saw at the opening of the Carba-tec store in Melbourne today..........a nice shiny ML 392 !!!!

It seems they haven't dumped them after all

Originally Posted by Gumby

Guess what I saw at the opening of the Carba-tec store in Melbourne today..........a nice shiny ML 392 !!!!

It seems they haven't dumped them after all

Yep, saw one in Sydney last week...a lot cheaper than when I bought mine

This one was $995 so I'm ok, mine was $895.

The rubber ring came off the again on the weekend and I was only running some pine through it. It's the outer one of the 2 rings on the large wheel which is engaged by the feed lever. I don't know why it does that. I put it back and ran it for a while with the cover off and it seemed OK. It was waitng for me to put the cover on before jumping off I think

Didn't somebody mention that there was a different wheel with a moulded edge. The guy at Carba-tec didn't know anything about it when i was there today.

Mine is sitting in Brisbane waiting for me to find time to drive down and collect it so nope they havent dumped them.