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I've got a screw loose...
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:39 am
by michaeltoc
I recently installed the PowerPro kit, but today I heard a screw rattling around the bottom of the motor pan. I removed the pan and found a set screw. Upon closer examination, it seems to be an M5x0.8 screw, 10 mm long. The parts breakdown do not list this screw.
The headstock seems to be running fine, and I (cautiously) put it through the speed range with no unusual noise or rattling.
Any ideas???
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:09 am
by dusty
michaeltoc wrote:I recently installed the PowerPro kit, but today I heard a screw rattling around the bottom of the motor pan. I removed the pan and found a set screw. Upon closer examination, it seems to be an M5x0.8 screw, 10 mm long. The parts breakdown do not list this screw.
The headstock seems to be running fine, and I (cautiously) put it through the speed range with no unusual noise or rattling.
Any ideas???
I find loose, unidentified hardware in my shop quite frequently and it bugs the daylights out of me. I just put it in a container with all the rest that I find that way.
But to find it in the motor pan:eek:. Not good news. I would call Shopsmith just to put them on notice.
Am I to understand that you received a "complete parts list" with the PowerPro delivery?
Do the parts cross reference in the online catalog? More directly, the question is can you purchase a PowerPro in bits and pieces?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 11:59 am
by michaeltoc
I will definitely call shopsmith, but they are not open until Monday (perhaps Tuesday?), so I just wanted to throw this out to the board to see if anyone had a similar experience.
The PowerPro manual came with a parts breakdown just like the original Mark V manual complete with catalog numbers etc., so I guess you could purchase a PowerPro piece by piece!
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:10 pm
by michaeltoc
FOUND IT!!!
I was looking at the parts list again and noticed #110 - Motor Pulley Set Screw (no size specified). Since all the other motor screws are metric I pulled the belt cover and sure enough the set screw was missing. Fortunately, the motor pulley is also held on by a shaft key and retaining ring, so that is why it didn't fly off.
So I would advise everyone to check this set screw, and perhaps re-set it with some locktite. (you need a 2.5mm hex key).
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:12 pm
by Gene Howe
Perhaps I'll send the kid to ACE for some M5x0.8 Loc Tite:D
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:28 pm
by JPG
Gene Howe wrote:Perhaps I'll send the kid to ACE for some M5x0.8 Loc Tite:D
If it ain't
blue when he gets returns, send him back!.......The
loctite!
OH! Don't forget it is for a 2.5mm hex socket 'head'('end?') Don't want to cause a third trip!:D
He driving, riding his bicycle, or shank's ponies?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:55 pm
by michaeltoc
Gene Howe wrote:Perhaps I'll send the kid to ACE for some M5x0.8 Loc Tite:D
My tube of blue loctite says it is 0.2 fl. oz./ 6 ml - so if the volume is listed in ml, it should be OK for metric screws.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:02 pm
by Gene Howe
michaeltoc wrote:My tube of blue loctite says it is 0.2 fl. oz./ 6 ml - so if the volume is listed in ml, it should be OK for metric screws.
That would be his excuse, too.
When he couldn't find the board stretcher, he said all my boards looked long enough anyway.
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:20 pm
by JPG
I have often pondered how a metric crescent wrench differed from a 'normal' one!:D
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:27 am
by skou
JPG40504 wrote:If it ain't blue when he gets returns, send him back!.......The loctite!
OH! Don't forget it is for a 2.5mm hex socket 'head'('end?') Don't want to cause a third trip!:D
He driving, riding his bicycle, or shank's ponies?
Considering just how large SnowFlake is,does it really matter? My uncle (Jake Flake) lived out of town a mile or so,and it only took 30 minutes to walk to the OTHER side of town from his house.
Gene, how's life up there?
steve