I just completed a wedding gift project that took so long for a variety of reasons that the couple has ?2 children. ?I posted a few picture of in a new album but then main reason for the album and this thread is to share an ides that has been a nice space saver for me. ?Now that my project is done, I am spending some time on the shop to better organize my things.

On the Felder widebelt sander, I had a variety of belts and I did not want to dedicate wall space for use of handing the belts (better to use that for lumber storage) and so I built storage across the outfeed side of the sander.

What was helpful was the bolts on top that are to be used for crane machine lifting. ?They are M16 and I got 2 M16 nuts and 2 strong tie column bases. ?That provided the support for the wood that would be used to connect to 3 inch ABS pipe. ?The holes were drilled with a 3 1/2 inch Forstner Bit available at woodcraft followed by a slight sanding with the spindle sander. ?The holes were drilled 5 inches apart, but if I could do it over again I would allow just a bit more space. ?to find tune the pipe for any slight tilt, I added some adjustment bolts as shown in 1 of the photos. ?

I now have a way to store 5 belts in a very convenient location using space that would otherwise go unused.?

Just a thought in case anyone was interested.

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Hello Brian

I do the same as you describe in your first paragraph.? The only difference is that I found the standard Zirks projected too much for my liking, so I stayed with the Felder offerings and just remove them each time I grease.

The ways I was referring too are actually referred to in the Felder literature as "the swing plate" and the "height guide" in the F900 and the "guide tracks" in the K975.

Re the F900.?? The swing plate (left and right) are the tracks or what I called ways which guide the angle tilt, and the height guide(s) deal with rise and fall.? The former are greased by a pair of approx <6mm diam plastic pipes into which greased is pumped via a couple of nipples on the outside of the machine. ? The guide tracks simply have grease applied directly to them.
I found pumping grease via these long plastic pipes to be impossible – even with zirks removed, the blowback was excessive, and I just apply grease by hand to the tracks.

Re the K975.? The rise and fall guide tracks have a pair of zirks to be greased and both are a little awkward to be sure of getting any grease in and yet the tracks themselves can be wiped with grease directly very easily, which I do.

I tend to think that the folk who make these machines and issue maintenance guidance do so for good reason and yet I find following their protocols using the grease gun to nipple approach to be both difficult to pursue and uncertain in effectiveness excepting for the planer jointer and shaper spindle to which we have already referred.

It seems to me that in the cases of the F900 and K975, apart from spindle bearings, greasing via the zirks is not necessary and maybe ineffective.? ??Could I be right?

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