?You were one of the lucky ones Bill . I opened mine the day I
brought it home . I bought it used , It's one of the newer red
ones that HF is pushin these days . I pulled the cover & there
was maybe a thimble full of oil . Where the oil seal is supposed
to be where teh shaft goes through to the drive wheel there were
IIRC 3 seals in the place where one was supposed to be . IIRC 2
were on backwards & The one that was on correctly was so
buggered up from assembly that it had a tear & the spring from
the seal was missing .
I've been moving tools to my new shop & when I moved one of
my tool boxes there was a seal under it . I bought several
replacement seals just to keep on hand . Pretty sure this is the
seal for this saw
SKF 152573 is the marking on the seal . If ya have a parts list
this # can be compared to the one in the parts list .
animal
On 12/23/23 2:11 PM, Bill Buckalew via
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Agree with the Preventive Maintenance approach vs. run to
failure.?Plus now, Predictive Maintenance is becoming much more
commonplace.? A vast amount of failure analysis and routine
monitoring data is being shared among a number of institutions,
especially when process and personal safety is involved.? I
remember reading that jet engine manufacturers share their fan
blade data.
Online rotating equipment monitoring was in its infancy in the
early 90's and is now quite sophisticated.? Plus fixed equipment
monitoring using drone technology has caught on.? I suppose by
now, AI is being adopted as an aid to the failure analysis
process.
As far as our hobby band saws go, I finally decided to open up my
4X6 HFT gear box after 12 years of use, only to find pretty clean
oil, and plenty of it.? But I still added my Lexan view window.?
Just because.
