Folks -
I had some "tinker time" available today, and was finally able to finish a project! Several months ago, I ended up with an old craftsman 6 1/8" jointer on a rickety homebuilt stand with an underpowered ~1/3 or maybe 1/2 horse motor. The thing would stall out edge jointing pine, for goshsakes...
Anyway, I had build a sturdier roll about stand a few months ago and had a HUGE old General Electric R.I. 1HP motor laying around. I installed the motor and rewired the connections to change the rotation and switch it to
220v operation... I finished up with all of that today, also having installed new jointer blades and truing up the outfeed table so everything was level and square.I fired it up and the thing just puuuuurrrrrrrrs.... I let it run for about
15 minutes after a couple of "touch and goes" just in case it was going to throw a knife... runs like a top!I used a dial indicator to set the knives and all that, but was wondering if there was a better way to do it. Finding TDC was a bit dodgy in putting the point of the knife blade square with the tip of the dial indicator. I
*think* I have all the knife blades at the same height, but am getting a small amount of scalloping in my jointed edge. Any ideas?John Moorhead