My 10-ER is now on a roll
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:41 pm
When I got my 10-ER a few years ago I pretty much just parked it other than blowing it off and looking it over fairly closely for any possible needs. I did use a sanding disk on it a few times but it has mostly sat back in a corner. Looking at it yesterday I was asking myself why I was not using it and I realized that it was because it is such a PITA to roll around. 
It had the old steel casters and I don't suppose that they had seen any lubrication in the last 50 years. You could hardly get it to change directions and if there was even the slightest variation of the concrete floor the ends of the legs would drag on the floor. Today I did the upside down on a pair of sawhorses bit with it. Can you say hernia? Dang that thing is heavy compared to a Mark V. The caster set was installed fine and the cams still in the proper positions on the shafts. Everything was just dirty and dry and one caster was rusted into its socket tightly. Someone had replaced its wheel with what looked to be a steel skate wheel. The original may have sat in a wet spot and rusted the wheel beyond use. I gave everything a good blowing out while I had it belly up and attacked the caster set with some Johnsen's (with an E) spray can penetrating oil constantly moving everything around. I finally got the stuck caster out and compared them to some new ones. Back when SS was selling a lot of excess stuff I was at the factory and I bought 6 sets of casters at .50 cents a caster. They appeared to be from demo units or something. The wheel faces were just lightly scratched. The new ones were a bigger in diameter then the old steel wheels so I replaced all 4 of them. When I flipped it back upright the bigger wheels were just right. It now lifts high enough to always clear the floor and rolls which ever direction I want to go. It still rolls a tiny bit harder than a Mark V but that is just the extra weight.
While I was at it I did a quick coat of Johnson's paste wax on the way tubes and attacked much of the rest of it with the spray penetrating oil on threads and locks etc. working things to get them free and loose. I used it a lot of places where I normally wouldn't but there was a lot of gum, possibly from old dried wax. The oil softened the gummy stuff and tomorrow I will take a can of carburetor cleaner down the the shop and use it to remove the now softened gummy stuff.
I can't seem to find anything wrong with this thing except the belt looks a little tired. It runs quiet and I can't find any slop in it anywhere.
Now that I can grab it and pull it out in the floor easily instead of wrestling it across the floor I expect to use it much more. I am fighting off the urge to do a repaint right away, just too many other things to do. Nice machine...
It had the old steel casters and I don't suppose that they had seen any lubrication in the last 50 years. You could hardly get it to change directions and if there was even the slightest variation of the concrete floor the ends of the legs would drag on the floor. Today I did the upside down on a pair of sawhorses bit with it. Can you say hernia? Dang that thing is heavy compared to a Mark V. The caster set was installed fine and the cams still in the proper positions on the shafts. Everything was just dirty and dry and one caster was rusted into its socket tightly. Someone had replaced its wheel with what looked to be a steel skate wheel. The original may have sat in a wet spot and rusted the wheel beyond use. I gave everything a good blowing out while I had it belly up and attacked the caster set with some Johnsen's (with an E) spray can penetrating oil constantly moving everything around. I finally got the stuck caster out and compared them to some new ones. Back when SS was selling a lot of excess stuff I was at the factory and I bought 6 sets of casters at .50 cents a caster. They appeared to be from demo units or something. The wheel faces were just lightly scratched. The new ones were a bigger in diameter then the old steel wheels so I replaced all 4 of them. When I flipped it back upright the bigger wheels were just right. It now lifts high enough to always clear the floor and rolls which ever direction I want to go. It still rolls a tiny bit harder than a Mark V but that is just the extra weight.While I was at it I did a quick coat of Johnson's paste wax on the way tubes and attacked much of the rest of it with the spray penetrating oil on threads and locks etc. working things to get them free and loose. I used it a lot of places where I normally wouldn't but there was a lot of gum, possibly from old dried wax. The oil softened the gummy stuff and tomorrow I will take a can of carburetor cleaner down the the shop and use it to remove the now softened gummy stuff.
I can't seem to find anything wrong with this thing except the belt looks a little tired. It runs quiet and I can't find any slop in it anywhere.
Now that I can grab it and pull it out in the floor easily instead of wrestling it across the floor I expect to use it much more. I am fighting off the urge to do a repaint right away, just too many other things to do. Nice machine...
) that the mortising attachment was originally designed for the 10's. That is all fairly low priority right now.