Thread: How do I tune Carbatec 8' Long bed jointer?

Semtex?

Just had a look at mine, I can't see anything obvious.

Maybe a call to Carba-tec.

I have the 12" wide version, mine has 4 eccentric bushes per table that allows table alignment, I see the same on other models so i am guessing yours will have them, they look like the "nut" that holds the disc on the spindle of say a 5" grinder, even has the two holes into which you place a tool to rotate them, I ground a little off the pins of a spare disc nut remove tool to make a planer eccentric nut turning tool. In mine there are 2 grubs screws (from memory about 6mm so you will need at a guess about a 3mm allen key)above each eccentric, take the first out then just loosen the second then you can turn the eccentric and thus move the table up or down by the amount of eccentricity, at a guess 1ish mm.
Depending on where it is out will determine whether you raise or lower and whether just at the front or just at the rear or one side only at front and rear and probably a few other combos as well

Hope this helps

Pete

Thanks Pete, I think I know the screws you are talking about - I suspected they had something to do with it, but it wasn't obvious how they worked. I'll give it a go and report back.

Cheers!

OK, well I'll have to make a tool too, don't have anything to fit that I can find. Amazing considering they supply every other tool you could possibly need, just not the one you need to make the most important adjustment of all...!

*sigh*

beginning to get mightly pinged off...

I found a tool at Bunnings which is exactly what I needed - it is an adjustable angle grinder spanner which has two movable posts. I had to file the posts down to 3mm to fit in, but other than that it is ok. $10.98 so not too bad.

Unfortunately, only one of the bushes is really moving. If I could get its opposite side to move I'd probably be finished, but so far the other 3 won't budge, and I am getting quite frustrated at having all this nice new machinery that I can't use because I can't make the minor adjustments needed...

I still think the ruddy machine should have shipped with the adjustment tool, as they are putting just a little too much faith in their factory setup.

Calm blue ocean...calm blue ocean...

q9.
Why don't you call Carba-tec and ask them - just a thought

Ian

We lined the bed of our Woodies Club's Carbatec jointer last Thursday.
No trouble to do, just loosened the 4 grub screws and turned the adjusters,
which, on ours, sit proud of the cabinet, with a pair of multigrips.
The infeed table sloped ever so slightly down from the centre.
Now the 2 tables are in the same plane and the difference in finish is great.
Keep at it.
Keith.

Originally Posted by Ian Smith

q9.
Why don't you call Carba-tec and ask them - just a thought

I'm basically sorted now, if I couldn't have found a tool...and would it hurt them to update the manual?

Originally Posted by BEKKY

We lined the bed of our Woodies Club's Carbatec jointer last Thursday.
No trouble to do, just loosened the 4 grub screws and turned the adjusters...

Yeah, it should be that simple, but these are fairly tight for some reason.

No matter, I had another go this afternoon and got it almost perfect. It is looking a lot better and tomorrow I'll do a couple of test runs through it and see how it goes.

It must have been that calm blue ocean

Pete

Yes, that or brutality of a hammer and screw-driver "drift"...but shh! It was just a calmer head, m'kay?

Old post I know, but I just purchased a Carbatec 8" Jointer and found the infeed to need calibrating (so I started the google search, which lead to this location as well as some others). Just in case you find yourself also looking at how to calibrate the Carbatec 8" Jointer, my best advice would be to go download this:
http://cdn0.grizzly.com/manuals/g0490_m.pdf<O></O>
The grizzly g0490 or (X) as I have the spiral head (would have to be the same unit or very close too). The manual supplied by grizzly from the above link is very thorough (compared to the one supplied with the Carbatec unit).<O></O>
One thing I didn't realise, (which PJT mention in his post, but I missed it) was the fact that there is actually 2 grub screws (one on top of each other to hold the adjusters). I wander if Q9 may have missed this as well and this was the reason it was so hard to adjust the adjusters.<O></O>
Anyway if you come accross this post and you have a Carbatec 8" Jointer and you want a user manual, the Grizzly g0490 manual is the way to go in my opinion.<O></O>

Also check out this youtube video [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO746cuRqV4"]118 - Jointer Setup - YouTube[/ame] the guy takes you through the whole process (but I would still read the manual).

Originally Posted by BEKKY

We lined the bed of our Woodies Club's Carbatec jointer last Thursday.
No trouble to do, just loosened the 4 grub screws and turned the adjusters,
which, on ours, sit proud of the cabinet, with a pair of multigrips.
The infeed table sloped ever so slightly down from the centre.
Now the 2 tables are in the same plane and the difference in finish is great.
Keep at it.
Keith.

As I posted earlier this is how we did it.
A great video he expains it very well, thanks for posting.
Keith.

This has been most informative, esp the Wood Whisperer video.

Can anyone please advise how to adjust the 4 points of infeed table for the 6 inch jointer shown here ?

On that particular machine there won't be any points of adjustment for infeed/outfeed table alignment like on the carbatec and the powermatic in the Wood whisperer vid. on yours both tables are on what might be best described as wide dovetail slideway, there will be adjustment to take up clearance in the guide ways, after that the only adjustment you have is up/down via the handwheels front and rear, the rear table is generally setup dead level with the top of the circle the blades make as they rotate, once set you don't need to move the rear table and of course the front table sets the depth of cut.


Pete