AJB Temple
Finely figured
I am still beavering away in my free time on my timber framing project, and this weekend have been indoors making curved braces out of what use dto be green oak and is now quite seasoned and hard. For the first (of 2) buildings I have 20 to make, from rough sawn oak planks three inches thick and just over 8 inches wide. This means cutting 80 angled tenons, each cheek being cut about 15 mm deep with a 10 cm tenon tongue.
The curved braces are shaped on the band saw, the tenon waste is removed with several passes on the router table with an inverted half incher router, cleaned up with a chisel, and then teh brace sanded all over with a 75mm belt sander (I could plane them but choose not to as this needs to look well finished but rustic).
My table router is an old and trusty Elu MOF177 (not the electronic variable speed version). This seized yesterday afternoon. I have freed it up somewhat today, but teh armature is not rotating freely. I am not sure what the problem is but I am guessing that a bearing has overheated and failed. I have zero experience of taking power tools apart, and this looks like a daunting strip down. Any brilliant ideas chaps? Does anyone know of any power tool repairers in Kent or South East London?
Then this morning, I am finishing by hand two braces that I was working on yesterday when the router packed up. I used my heavy duty Elu 75mm belt sander (must have owned this for 25 years) for cleaning up and after a while it started becoming quite noisy. Eventually it just stopped. It was pretty hot. I suspected belt failure, so I took the cover off. The belt is fine. The brushes seem to have enough life in them too. I vacuumed all the dust out. I have not tried it again yet as I let it cool down over lunch time. I have no clue what the problem is.
Looks like I might have to buy a new belt sander (if so what to get - must be properly heavy duty) and I have already ordered a Trend router (as it has auto lift with my router table) but would like to repair the Elu as well. It's turning into an expensive weekend.
The curved braces are shaped on the band saw, the tenon waste is removed with several passes on the router table with an inverted half incher router, cleaned up with a chisel, and then teh brace sanded all over with a 75mm belt sander (I could plane them but choose not to as this needs to look well finished but rustic).
My table router is an old and trusty Elu MOF177 (not the electronic variable speed version). This seized yesterday afternoon. I have freed it up somewhat today, but teh armature is not rotating freely. I am not sure what the problem is but I am guessing that a bearing has overheated and failed. I have zero experience of taking power tools apart, and this looks like a daunting strip down. Any brilliant ideas chaps? Does anyone know of any power tool repairers in Kent or South East London?
Then this morning, I am finishing by hand two braces that I was working on yesterday when the router packed up. I used my heavy duty Elu 75mm belt sander (must have owned this for 25 years) for cleaning up and after a while it started becoming quite noisy. Eventually it just stopped. It was pretty hot. I suspected belt failure, so I took the cover off. The belt is fine. The brushes seem to have enough life in them too. I vacuumed all the dust out. I have not tried it again yet as I let it cool down over lunch time. I have no clue what the problem is.
Looks like I might have to buy a new belt sander (if so what to get - must be properly heavy duty) and I have already ordered a Trend router (as it has auto lift with my router table) but would like to repair the Elu as well. It's turning into an expensive weekend.