Table Saw Woes

Published on by Mike

Damaged Pulley

I have made some pretty good progress on the mystery project since my last post, however it was not without some difficulty, largely with my table saw.  Last weekend was a long weekend for Memorial Day.  I also took a 1/2 day off from work that Friday.  I got through most of what I planned on finishing that Friday, when the belt on the Table Saw shredded.  That stopped me for that evening, but the next day I got a new belt for the saw, and was back working.  Saturday I didn’t get too much done as we went to a family event.  Sunday and Monday I made a lot more progress and was getting close to being able to glue up the first two panels, when I noticed the table saw was literally jumping around when starting and stopping it, and was making a lot of noise.  Started looking things over when I realized the pulley on the arbor split!  Between figuring out how to get the pulley off and getting a new ordered and delivered, I was down till yesterday (Friday).  Last night I got the new pulley on the saw, made sure everything was lined up, did a few other checks, and squared everything up again.  At this point, the saw is running great, better then ever.  I will keep my fingers crossed that it stays this way!

 

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