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Anyone have any idea what these washers are called. They are thicker than regular washers and they have a nice bevel on one side. I didn't realize it until I took the second handwheel off but the previous owner clearly lost one and just replaced it with an imperial one that didn't fit right...

Got the first bit back together. I modified a set of Delta Unisaw handwheels to replace the jive 70s die cast ones that came on my saw (one was wallowed out as well). I also replaced the manky roll pin that the handles engaged with (and was bent up from the hand wheel) with a solid pin I hand...

What did your splitter look like? The one that came on my US spec saw attached to the rear of the main trunnion and as far as I could tell it was just a pain because the original owner of my saw clearly just took it off immediately and never used it because it was in pristine condition. It...

Realized tonight that the end of the arbor housing isn't even close to machined even. Looks like it was just filed at the factory. How do you set the end berings as there is no stop. The only limiting factor is that the bolt though the side has a limit defined by the hole in the spacer, but I...

Does anyone happen to know what the correct size for the retaining clip that goes in this groove is? I'm hoping it isn't a custom sized one, but am not holding my breath...

Got the arbor out without too much trouble. It didn't want to tap out easily, so I put it in the arbor press and pressed it out... much less violent. It was a bit hung up internally... There were some burrs on the hole in the spacer and there were little gobs of hardened green paint in there...

Hi Miles, Not sure if you want to add this or not, but the manual for this US saw I'm pretty sure says (can't find it at the moment) that both the threads on the back of the arbor and the cap head screw through the side of the arbor housing were BSW and/or BSF. I just checked them out of...

Did get some progress done on some little things this week. The motor cover was pretty beat up and one of the seams had all its spot welds come undone sometime in the past, so I bashed all the edges straight and then spot welded it back together. BTW, whatever this green paint is it is awful...

Yes, but they are a bit spendy over here (for a good one at least). Not much of a variable between that and a nice VFD although that tends to not hold true when the HP of the motor starts to get above 4 or so HP. Luckily good, second hand three phase motors can be found cheap here if you keep...

Hi Deema, Are you saying it is designed to be nudged *axially* or *laterally*? I assume you mean the former. In that case it sounds like it isn't in its housing very tight which should not create any undue stress getting it out. I have some soft rubber jaws on my Jawhorse (don't laugh, that...

Hi Miles! Hope all is well with you. Yes, I'll do some summary progress updates on the other sites as I get to certain points, but I figured there were way more people here that had direct experience with these WB saws and spindle moulders... and I'll definitely need some advice along the way...

Yes, I'm definitely going to swap the bearings. It was only in operation for a few years, but it spent that whole time running a very heavy custom carbide grooving blade (blade on top in Pic) and then it sat since about 1984/5 ish none of which is very good for bearings. I'm going to do it when...

I love that BGS. I need to find myself one of those someday. I'll have to live vicariously though you and Miles for the moment though... will be a few more years before I can think of that. I'm 100% not sure what you might mean about not putting pressure on the CI spindle bearing housing...

Hi Deema, I took a closer look at it tonight and it does look like it will be easier to get out through the back of the saw. I took the handle and roll pin out already to fabricate a new handwheel, so that is already done. When I took the roll pin out of the worm on the raise/lower shaft I was...

Also, does anyone have any idea how sensitive the Brooks three phase motors that came in these 70s era Wadkin Bursgreen models are? It lists the motor as dual voltage with the lower voltage being 230. The voltages here where I am in California run 120 and 240 and tend to be very stable...

Turns out the bushing in main trunion is probably steel of some kind, as you predicted. Glass bead blasted the machined ways on the tunion and took at closer look at it. Definitely sounds like it as well. Either way, definitely not bronze colored!

Got the top off and almost all the guts out of the machine. It's an interesting design for the trunnions compared to the Delta Unisaw. Definitely think the newer raise/lower trunnion rear retaining contraption isn't a very good design. The older version with a proper ghib plate makes much more...

You must have done something to seriously offend it if it didn't budge under the vertical press.... Will be interesting to see if that was something hanging it up. Given that your model has the integrated arbor housing this is the right thing to do... no one wants to spend extra cash if they...

I can't imagine when it could have been re-bored, honestly. The saw is really low mileage and the guy I bought it from knew it from when it was purchased. Also, nothing else has been apart on this thing, so I kinda have to think it was a factory job from the beginning. Unless, of course, the...

Hi Deema, Here are some pictures I took tonight for you. I was actually able to tap the bushing out without too much effort, so I may try and replace it. The other one in the main trunnion casting is in there solid. Also, measurements are attached. Done with a cheap digital caliper not inside...