Ignorant Newbie needs help

swampgator · Post by **swampgator** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:00 am

Slightly off topic, the belt cover appears to have a lot of dust on it. I would remove the two screws and clean that out first. If you have a compressor, while you have the belt cover off, blow it out.

Then you have some cleaning of the spindle to do. The bench and way tubes look really good. Hope you continue coming here. Tremendous amount of good info.

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:29 am

If ya blow out the insides with compressed air. Have the SS running, just be careful with the nozzle.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:31 am

beeg wrote:If ya blow out the insides with compressed air. Have the SS running, just be careful with the nozzle.

Doing so reduces the chances of dust collecting in the motor.

mathman · Post by **mathman** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:21 am

You know, when I got it, the whole thing was dusty but the inside of the head unit was almost perfectly clean.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:54 am

mathman wrote:You know, when I got it, the whole thing was dusty but the inside of the head unit was almost perfectly clean.

Being dusty inside and out is not all that bad. I have worked on a couple headstock that were almost compacted with sawdust - well, not really that bad but a lot worse than just dusty.

When the sawdust begins to clump and has to be scrapped loose from the housing walls - the machine has been neglected.

They tend to get hotter when like that. I suppose it is from reduced air flow.

mathman · Post by **mathman** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:43 pm

I had a 50 horsepower feed grinder motor that kept cutting itself off. An electrician told me it was burned up and would need rewinding. I took it apart and cleaned the ground up feed dust out. It lasted 10 years after that. I ALWAYS clean my motors.Hahaha