I have a C3-31 and now I¡¯m worried. Any thoughts from all of our experts on why or how this may have happened in the first place?
- poor design?
- poor manufacturing?
- lack of maintenance?
Any thoughts would be helpful I think.
BTW - nice job fixing it!?
Chris Rozycki?
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On Jan 28, 2025, at 2:23?PM, cms.sanderson via groups.io <cms.sanderson@...> wrote:
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Thanks guys, I bit the bullet and took the assembly unit out only to find the threaded rod plastic block (item 7) was blocked with loads of sawdust. When I started the job I noticed this plastic cover had become dislodged which I highly suspect caused the issue by allowing dust to enter.
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For anyone needing to tackle this in the future I was able to take out the assembly unit in about 2hrs with limited machine maintenance experience and no special tools. No need to remove the tables or pull the pulley off the cutterhead. Rather than realigning the tables after reinstalling I realised I could align the cutterhead to the previously calibrated tables by tightening two bolts on each of the bearing blocks, checking knife clearance with the outfeed table and then tapping each block a fraction until the clearance was perfect on both sides.
